Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
2004 bottle sampled in post good-beer swill tasting with Muzzlehatch and Tiggmtl. It’s becoming a frighteningly enjoyable tradition. I probably shouldnt rate this since I wasnt drinking it the "proper" way, as the website indicates (corona-style). Oh well. Pours a lucid yellow, clear and bubbly with a ring of white foam that is quickly gone. Aroma of blue cheese, dirty sea-water, sweet apples. The blue cheese is so distinctive, it beckons you to like it, and I’m almost thrown to the sirens, but then I snap out of it and realize this shit for what it is. Insipidly sweet flavor, spoiled, sugary, musty funk and sweat. Fair carbonation can not help this much sugary garbage. Bordering on alcopop. These "brewers" should be ashamed.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Hunters Extra Dry from Distell Group Limited 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
An orange cider with a collapsing white head. The aroma is sweet with lots of apples - like a good applejuice. The flavor is sweet with lots of apple flavors leading to a very dry end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle with Muzzlehatch and Tiggmtl. Clear bottle, and I’m saddened to learn that we did not drink it in the "traditional" manner (if you look on their website, they say it is drunk with a lemon wedge in the neck, straight from the bottle). Well that certainly conjures up images of a certain other infamous beer. Anyways, I chose this one, over the light, hoping it would be "dry" as the name suggests. It was not. While the pour was decent for a cider, goldenrod with a fizzy film of bubbles that recedes rapidly, and even the aroma was tolerable (sweet apples, honey, a bit of dry herbs), the flavor was just, to me, quite cloying. Not dry in the least, and I am really shocked to see this rated a 3.53!!! The beer attempts to get crisp on the end, but as it warms and thins out, the extreme sugariness takes over. I’d be afraid of contracting diabetes if I drank too many of these, I can’t find much other than apple sugar in this, and it isn’t even very real tasting. I think the fact that the company is trying to market this as "traditionally drunk from the bottle with a lemon wedge" says more to its discredit than I can.