Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample at Fette Sau. Clear pale golden color with a thin fizzy white head that burns away steadily to an outer ring. Spotty lacing. Apples and spices in the nose. Light-bodied with flavors of mildly tart apples, spice and malt. The finish is dry with an apple aftertaste. Slightly above average overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Blippsmas. Pours clear orange. No head. Nose and taste of pumpkin, spiced apple, cinnamon and spice. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle from New Beer’s cooler($5.50). DFH rounded pint glass.
Crystal clear pale lager. Active soda spritz.
Fading hop resin, leaf pile, confused apple wine, a bit of ammonia.
Taste is some sort of green, tart, semi sweet cider. Dry hop is pretty apparent, but doesn’t overpower the base cider(which is more like apple wine). Very leafy, even a bit herbal; tin-y. Touch of cardboard. Finish is very dry, with spent chewing gum, & plenty of headache inducing sulfites.
Really spritzy, really thin.
Dry hopped ciders aren’t my thing, but you could do worse. Best thing about it is that it’s mellow.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Stags head. It was on happy hour special as it always is and decided finally to get a perry rate. pours dull flat water like. nose of sweet pears. tastes of pears and apples, light forest, and some artificial sweeteners that unfortunately linger. crisp enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Clear very pale yellow color, few bubbles. Aroma pf fresh raw apples. Taste is sweet apples, dry finish. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled at the 2013 Chicago Cider Summit. Pours a clear pale gold with no head whatsoever. Aroma is pretty mild with a bit of sweet apple and a hint of tartness. Flavor is sweet with rich apple and good amount of must, not to complex.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Plastic cup @ New Amsterdam Market.
Faint, pale gold color. Slight haze. Slight fizzle.
Smell is water-logged pear perfume & yeast.
Taste is Bartlett pear juice, apple tartness, some simple syrup, & yeast. A bit empty. Haven’t had one of these in a few years. Definitely no where as sweet or full as I remember it being.
Thin. Noticeable sulfites. Carbonation could of been stronger. Alcohol was a little upfront.
Their pear brandy still drinks pretty well though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Not as good as the Fox Barrel that I had a few minutes prior. Sweet pear and sugar flavor with just a little yeast. On the dry side for a perry, but still a sweet beverage.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Twin Cities Beer Festival. From a bottle. Considerable yeast. Medium sweet apple. It is well balanced, without too much sugar.