Would’ve liked a bit sweeter.
Excellent balance of sweet and dry.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Distinct blueberry nose, some vinegar. Clear salmon. More apple forward on the palate, but tart blueberry is easily detectable. Light body, easy carbonation.
Clear pour. Thin foam. Blueberry nose. Sweet flavor of blueberries with slight apple notes. Blueberry palate. No carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pint can from Festival Northland, 4/13/22. Clear gold, maybe a faint pink tinge, or maybe that’s my imagination. Large fizzy white head, poor retention. Aroma of sweet apple, sweet raspberry. Taste is sweet and tart apple, tart raspberry, some vanilla, skins. Thin, high carb. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can. A- Brown sugar, mild cinnamon. A- Copper color, clear liquid, no head. T- Brown sugar, cinnamon, apple, caramel, sweet. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, sweet finish. O- Loads of brown sugar. There is an apple donut like flavor. Very sweet to the point of being rather cloying. Wanted to love it but couldn't quite get there.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pounder from my local TJs. Lo-ball @home. Hard spritz, dead, cloudy, yellow straw. Smell is Alpine-ish & refreshing(they don't advertise what hops were used). Backdrop of citrus & unfocused apple bitterness. Taste is soft twang, citrus forward hop juice, cool mint, apple bitterness, yeast, lemon, watermelon rind. Not even approaching kettle sour level. Some residual sweetness. Hard carbonation, dusty feel, noticeable but whatevz booze. Hop essence + crap cider = still not that bad. Cheers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
$3 pounder from my local TJs. I should know better, but I do like Snapdragons. Mojito glass @home. Clear, pale gold, lingering lace. Farty, yeasty nose dissolves & makes way for a bitterly indifferent brew! Taste is a tart, sweet, bright, slightly bitter, subliminally crunchy apples, malic acid, lemon, champagne yeast leftovers, sulfites, & a lingering sugary-ness that reminds me of Splenda; lettuce. Hard carbonation, slight ugliness from the alcohol. Okay hydration if it's fast & cold.
Way too medicinally cherry for me.