Thistly Cross Cider

Cidery in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2008

Contact
The Works, Implement Rd, West Barns, Dunbar, EH42 1UN, Scotland
Description
Hello, we’re Thistly Cross, Scotland’s award winning farmhouse ciders, born out of a passion for making cider in the best possible way, combined with belief in the quality of Scottish produce, and asking ‘why not?’. Established as a collaboration between farmer, Ian Rennie, and artist-turned-cidermaker, Peter Stuart, in 2008, Thistly Cross has gained a reputation for making ciders that people rave about.

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear golden with minimal head. Aroma is sweet apples, apple juice, light tartness. Thin body with medium carbonation. Sweet apples, apple juice, light champagne notes, and a hint of tart apple. Easy drinking with little complexity. Decent.

Tried on 06 Feb 2013 at 16:19


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle share by Dallas, thanks
Appearance: Clear straw yellow with a small white head and light lacing
Aroma: Apple’s, some light smokiness and sugar
Taste: Apple’s, sugar and woody
Nice and tasty, easy drinking

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2013 at 11:51


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle shared by Dallas. What a find in Alaska! Pours a clear golden color. A nice nose of rich apples, some light smoke. The flavor was initially just a excellent apple flavor, some tart apples, but then the smokiness grew on me, some wood as well. Very solid. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2013 at 21:52


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pours with a crystal clear, medium yellow hued body with a medium sized white head that fades. Aromas are of dry apple, honey, mild sulfur, stewed/overripe fruit, champagne, toast. Lightly grassy. Flavors are medium to slightly fuller sweet, a bit flabby, low sulfur, a bit musty. Balance is not quite to my liking: acid is a touch sweet and lacking quite a bit of tannin to balance the acidity. Missing brightness. Nothing off otherwise. Tastes a bit old. Medium body and carbonation. Nothing too special.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2013 at 21:08


8

Nice blend of sweet and sour - 4 capper

Tried on 29 Dec 2012 at 20:32


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours with a clear bright yellow hued body with some alcohol legs and a few rising bubbles that settle for a foamy ring. Aromas are mossy, a little bit musty, peat, very light scotch, vibrant apple, light campfire, medium acidity, dry with some earthy complexities and light sulfur. Flavors are Medium sweet, some bright juicy notes, dry and earthy notes with a rounded, light smokiness. Good acid balance for a medium sweet cider, lower tannins than I would have expected and thankfully less Scotch than I was expecting. Good body, lower carbonation. Smooth. Pretty nice stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2012 at 16:29


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Refrigerated 0.5 cl brown bottle poured into a white wine glass. Pours clear pale golden with very small white head. Very little lacing, medium body, syrupy texture, light carbonation, and dry apple aroma. Taste is semi-sweet apple, hint of alcohol, and finishes dry. Pretty simple, pretty good, but the dry finish doesn’t work for me.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2012 at 19:21


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

From cask at Caley Sample Room. Pours hazy to murky yellow with a small white head. Aroma is light cinnamon like spiced, herbal and citric apples. Sweet, citric and crisp fruity. Nice, mellow and yet with an edge, light sweetness and nice small notes of something hard to pinpoint, yet giving some complexity. Smooth fruity, sweet and light citric finish.

Tried from Cask on 09 Nov 2012 at 05:52


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Canister. Sightly hazy golden colour, not much head. Aroma is apples, some wood, vanilla, cheesy notes as well as mild berries. Flavour is apple juice, cinegar, acidic notes and mild alcohol. Too acidic.

Tried from Can on 21 Aug 2012 at 21:54


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a cider box at the Railway pub, Blackheath. Pours a clear yellow. Quite a smooth, crisp texture. Burst of baked apple in the flavour. Quite nice.

Tried on 14 Jul 2012 at 08:25