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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Can at the royal highland show. Pours purplish, nose is apple and berries, taste is similar, sweet

Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2022 at 16:55


6

Tried on 29 May 2022 at 21:45


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can from Appalachian. Goblet @home. Soapy, leggy, but quickly fading head. Clear, shiny, rich, gold body. Stuffy, almost skunky, purple drank & odd wildflower scent. Taste is fortune cookie sweetness, a little random ugly, syrupy fruit melody, gum, concord grape. Desperately needs some bitterness. Super syrupy, very light acidity(but it is there). Low abv, low overall carbonation. No thanks.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2022 at 22:49


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

No head, colour the cross between clear gold, ochre and red copper. Strawberry jam nose, but with a faint, almost smokey aroma of dry powdery spices, dry mealy apples. Sweet, honey, mead-like flavour, very surprising. Flavours of cucumber, strawberry, lime. Diluted strawberry jam; whiff of incense. Serious dry-out effect, all the more surprising seen the sweetness. Light. Quite unsettling, pulling into different directions at the same time. Likeable, if tending to be unbalanced.

Tried from Bottle at The Northerner on 01 May 2022 at 15:11


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap at The Made Inn Ashford. Clear red colour no head. Smells of Ribena fruits. too sweet. artificial fruit. not great.

Tried from Draft on 28 Apr 2022 at 18:16


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

# 2898; 4/2022. Honey and apple aroma. Clear gold body, almost no head. Honey, apple, vanilla. Good cider. Half of pint, hand-pulled, multitap pub, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

Tried from Draft on 25 Apr 2022 at 16:58


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

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Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2022 at 16:39


7

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2022 at 18:31


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

Cider Freak Day, Sunday 3rd April 2022. I hosted a cider tasting with my good lady, or son, his girlfriend and my sister-in-law (who didn't really join in much). The litre of this was fourth in the session, bottled from a box by LowCostBeer. Clear and apple flavoured, liked it.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2022 at 08:21


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5


Bottle 330ml. @ [ Scooper Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🇩🇰 👨‍💻🍺

[ As Thistly Cross Real Strawberry ].
ABV: 4.0%. Clear medium red orange colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is sweet strawberry, strawberry, light apple. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, strawberry, sweet strawberry, light apple. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20220108]
4-3-5-3-9

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2022 at 10:11