Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tasting at Matt’s
Pale yellow color. Deep aroma, not yet like an Ice Cider, but seriously close. It has a moderate sweetness, apple juice, the high alcohol content works well with the soft woody tannins.
Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle, pours a clear dull blonde with just a few bubbles of head. Aroma brings out semi-sweet apples, butterscotch, and caramelized green apples. Flavour is complex and along the same lines, with semi-sweet apples, butterscotch, alcohol, and caramel. Low residual sugar, but just enough to make this extra palatable. Complex and subtly refined. Excellent.
Apples caramel and alcohol. Crazy smooth but compared to a proper ice cider completely lacking in the balancing acidity.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375ml bottle pours a clear, dark orange with no head. Very leggy in the glass. Nose is excellent, apple, juice and meat, some port, light spice, rotting apple core. Flavor is sweet and boozy, apples, pears, caramel, port, booze. Surprisingly very earthy in the mouth. Sticky finish and a bit hot. A real treat. Really solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at the nuplastikk returns tasting in VA. Clear golden orange. Aromas of apples, caramel, light booze. Tastes of apples, caramel, honey, booze. Medium body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
From a 375 ml bottle shared at the 2016 Nuplastik is back tasting. Pours a clear amber with a scant off white head. Aroma of spice apple. Sweet flavors apple brown betty. Yum.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Extremely easy to drink and wonderful all around. Amber pour without head and cinnamon. Some apple cider vibe. Wonderful. Sweet finish with touch of tang. Hint of vanilla. Bottle shared at tasting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of iphonephan, thanks! Clear deep golden color, still. Nice aroma of peach, apricot, apple. Taste is sweet fruit syrup, caramel. Very tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - Nice baked apple. Clear light gold. Light bitter apple peel and a long peel finish. I wish it we pas half the nose.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Corked bottle
Skewed Refractometer Reading: 9°B
Pale blond color. Elegant strong aroma, apples, deep, not far from an Ice Cider (8+). Smooth feeling, medium dry, not carbonated; fairly nice cider flavor, a bit astringent and sour in the finish.
Smells like Ice Cider, tastes like regular simple Cider.