Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Single can via Press online. Clear Solo cup at home, post hurricane. Faintly hazy, bubbly, dusty pale gold. Yeasty, cheesy, funky papaya, saline, gum, vinegar nose. Not great. Dry floral, bittersharp macerated apples, yeasty, vinegar sweetness. Medium high acid, medium low tartness, heavy sulfite feels. American Sidra. Just okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap @ De Garde Brewery, Tillamook. I'm guessing all these years should be aliased. Pours misty yellow, bright sour apple funk on the nose. Crisp, bright sour funk complexities overall, light tart apple some woody oak moments with a lingering tangy acidity. Very good.
mcberko (47797) reviewed The Jeffest from Baird & Dewar Farmhouse Cider 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
On tap at Schilling Cider House - PDX, pours a clear blonde, no head. Nose smells like peppermint, with little else. Flavour is loaded with dental floss, with mint, and crisp apple. This is just bad, with too much dental floss. Ugh... unpleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Bushwhacker - Brooklyn, pours a clear blonde with no head. Nose brings out a nice farmhouse funky quality, with gentle acidity and high dryness. Flavour is dry and fairly funky, with apple skins, medium acidity and farmhouse funk. Not overly complex; in fact, lacking depth. It's decent but uninspiring.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Tasting at Ferris’, corked bottle n. 1562
Pale yellow color, cloudy, headless. Nice aroma, sour, lemony, a bit funky, a bit footy. Very dry, weak mouthfeel; some funky flavors, but also some plastic, make of this an imprecise cider.
Not elegant. American.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - A bit of wild sour apple. Cloudy gold with no head. Funky, Apple, yeasty notes and a dry funky finish. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at De Garde. Pours a cloudy yellow color with a small bubble of head. A big sweet woody sour nose. Oak, sour tannins, vanilla, spices. Interesting. Hard to pin down.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - Sweet Apple and kambucha like notes. Cloudy yellow. Funky Apple and that odd kambucha like flavour again. I think the spice and raisins give it that interesting flavour without being entirely recognizable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
2012 vintage. Bottle at De Garde, pours a cloudy blonde with a small white head. Aroma is complex, with brown sugar, treacle, and light oak. Flavour is totally different, with medium dry apples, slight toffee, wild farmhouse funk, and fairly high acidity. The acidity is much too high after a while - it hurts the insides. It's good but harsh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at The Commons, pours a hazy reddish pink with a small pink head. Aroma brings out tart black cherries and light funk. Flavour is pretty funky, with dirty tart black cherries, medium funk and a little acidity. Well-balanced and fairly complex. Very nice stuff.