EB from 2016

7

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

Can from Holiday Market. Pours a clear straw yellow with a quickly dissipating finger of foam. Champagne yeast-like nose with some straw, wet hay aromas. As it warms the funky notes go to the back and apple and some peach open up. Spritzy carbonation with a tart green apple character mid-palate. A touch of brine, then a dry finish. Pretty good for an American cider.

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap. Pours clear pale golden with a small white head. Aromas of sweet apples, vanilla, light oak, pear. Taste is sweet, some vanilla oaky notes, mostly just apples and a bit of pear like sweetness. Dries out.

6.5

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

Bottle from Top Hops a few blocks up from Union Sq. Maybe more then a few blocks. Duvel glass at home. Clear, champagne-y yellow gold. Some floaties by the third pour. Iron, very mineral-y apple scent. Yeast, chalk, sharps, wisp of oxidation. Taste is sharp apples/kiwi/green grapes/lemon. Chalk, light green bitterness, light plastic, not much else. Otherwise dry, well carbed & thin. Always well made, but usually falls short on complexity. If this brand was cheaper or partnered with a more established cidery, I'd be less difficult to woo.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Light gold pour. Sweet apple nose. Sweet Apple taste with sweet fermented apple palate.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Red pour. Sweet cherry nose. Very sweet cherry taste, like a cherry pie. Nice cherry palate. Wonderful for cherry lovers!

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 6/21/19. Clear red, medium sized fizzy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of cherry, cranberry, apple. Taste is cherry pie filling, spice, apple. Medium bodied, dry, tart. Nice.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 6/21/19. Clear gold, thin fizzy white head, poor retention. Aroma of dry apples, tannins, pepper. Taste is pepper, sweet apples, honey, oak. Medium bodied, dry, high carbonation.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled from the tap at the cidery. Pours a clear light yellow with no head whatsoever. Aroma combines tart and slight sweet but dry apples with a slight hint of oak underlying. Flavor starts with slightly tart apple with a growing dryness and a hint of oak backing.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at the cidery. Pours a clear deep yellow with no head whatsoever. Aroma has sweet maple and sweet apple notes with a hint of bourbon. Flavor is quite sweet with a combination of apple, maple and light bourbon.