Merrydown
Cidery
in Gloucester,
Gloucestershire,
England 🏴
Owned by
SHS Drinks
Established in 1975
dragnet101 (5171) reviewed Vintage Medium Cider from Merrydown 11 months ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle from Beers of Europe, Pours a clear gold, brief fizzy head. Aroma of faint over-stewed apple juice and cardboard Taste is the same, tangy but fairly artificial with chemical notes. Medium body and carbonation, syrupy. Very poor but drinkable
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Asda, which my daughter wanted to mull but I managed to grab a taster first. Bit of a blast from the past this! When I first started pubbing in the early nineties you generally only found Strongbow or (hopefully) Dry Blackthorn on the bar. Very occasionally you would come across Merrydown, which seemed like quite a treat compared to the other two. I was interested to see what I thought of it nowadays. It's a pale gold cider with a middling fizz. Tastes of sweet dessert apples with a hint of lemon. There's a waft of dry apple skins in the finish. It's quite light tasting and a big thin and watery, but there's nothing unpleasant about it. It's pretty drinkable actually. Better than I expected.
danlo (12875) reviewed Original | Vintage Apple Cider from Merrydown 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Clear pale golden colour, foamy white head that quickly dissipates and aroma of baked apple, sugary. Taste is sweet, cooking apple, some core, with sugar and slight citric acidity. Medium bodied, light carbonation, sweet tangy cooked apple finish. OK, quite sweet.
Grumbo (24130) reviewed Original | Vintage Apple Cider from Merrydown 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
14/11/2023. Bottle from Tesco, Martlesham. Pours clear very pale gold with a small short lasting frothy white head. Aroma is sweet, sugary, apple, shortbread. Very sweet candied apple taste. Moderate body, oily, fizzy. Odd sweet stewed artificial finish. Not great.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Spotty beige head on a well carbonated golden coloured body. Sweet apple aroma. Sweet apple, light funk & sweeter on the back with dry finish. Cider innit.
eurosoba (18472) ticked Original Extra Strong Gold from Merrydown 2 years ago
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