Hecks Farmhouse Cider

Cidery in Street, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Hecks Farmhouse Cider

Established in 1841

Contact
9-11 Middle Leigh, Street, BA16 0LB, England
Description
The Hecks family have been making traditional farmhouse cider in Somerset for six generations, since 1841.

In 1896, we started to sell our cider from our farm shop in Street.

We make our cider by blending juice from apples all grown locally in the farm’s orchards. The cider is fermented in wooden barrels and sold draught from the wood.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
4 oz pour on draft at ChurchKey. 2013 vintage. Slightly hazy apple juice yellow. Aromas of light funk, apples, champagne. Tastes of apples, light floral notes, champagne, white wine. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried from Draft on 28 Aug 2015 at 20:03

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask @ Trades Club, Hebden Bridge. Pale dishwater yellow coloured cider. Has a strong, fullish nose, with a fair sweetness in this respect in its taste.
Tried from Cask on 14 Aug 2015 at 10:46

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From bag in box. Pours hazy yellow with a fully gone head. Aroma is dry apples, light sulphorish. Juicy, zesty, sulphorish dry finish.
Tried on 10 Aug 2015 at 05:20

6.3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Polycask @ EBF18 2014, 18th Egham Beer Festival, Egham United Services Club (EUSC), 111 Spring Rise, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 9PE. [ As Hecks Bramley with Honey Cider ].Clear light medium orange yellow color with a small, open and fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple and honey, wood notes, light vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, dry, honey, apple, sweet apples. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [20140807]
Tried from Cask on 06 Aug 2015 at 05:45

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Box @ Saxon Crown, Corby. Slightly hazy pale gold. Has a good apple character in both aroma and taste, but a touch thin in its texture.
Tried on 30 Jul 2015 at 15:55

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
BIAB at the Standing Order. Pours pale pissy yellow with no head. Aromas of sharp apples, zingy almost. Taste is light sweet, chalky finish. Flat.
Tried on 17 Jul 2015 at 07:00

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
BIAB @ Shrewsbury Hotel. Pours murky orange. Character is sharp & thorny with scuzzy tannins. Not my go-to style of cider I have to say.
Tried on 15 Jul 2015 at 15:56

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at the standing order. Pours hazy orange, nose is light apple, taste is similar, light sweetness
Tried from Cask on 15 Jul 2015 at 12:25

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Poly pin at standing order... Hazy amber.. Soft Dry apple fruits nose... Soft tanin.. Long soft dry apple.. Light tannins
Tried on 15 Jul 2015 at 11:03

7/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Polycask @ GBBF 2013, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Hecks Browns Apple SV ].Unclear light medium orange yellow color with a pinkt note, a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, sweet apple, barnyard, tart apples. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart appels, funky - farmyard, apple, sugary apples. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20130815]
Tried from Cask on 04 Mar 2015 at 09:49