Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask@Black Door, Helsinki. Pale yellow colour, no head. Aroma is sweet pear along with some honey as well as bluecheese. Also some mild wooden notes. Flavour is pear, honey, some rather sweet spicyness as well as mild syrupy notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bag in a box at 2nd Thanet Cider and Perry festival, Churchill Tavern, Ramsgate. Cloudy orange gold. Cheesy cider. Quite dry on finish plus some nougat on the flavour which is rather pleasant. Kind of medium sweetness in mouth, drys out on finish. Pleasant apple juice aroma. Bit of film developer. Decent apple flesh. Good
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ 3 Judges. Hazy golden colour, no head. Aroma of sour apple, cheese and yeast. Flavour: sour and dry apple, plasticizer.
Beertalk (16426) reviewed Ladys Finger Cider from Hecks Farmhouse Cider 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Very pale yellow with no head. Apple juice and apple candy aroma. Very sour apple flavour
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Polycask at the Portcullis, Clifton, Bristol 24/07/09. Reddish-gold in colour with no carbonation. Sweetish aroma with plenty of apple fruit and a hint of wine. Flavour was also sweet, with a balancing tart finish. Unusual and good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Polycask at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival, Merton, Oxon 18-07-09 Pours mid yellow in colour some spritzy white bubble’s show then swiftly fade. As one would expect this is another decent cider from Hecks but despite its rarity providing the allure for me I never found it to be quite the equal of the ’Port Wine of Glastonbury’ or the Blakeney Red Perry’ which we also had on at Merton. Its tasty very appley and with a good bitterswet tang but nothing else really to excite me, found this to be firmly in the med-dry category. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov12 3.0
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 07-05-09 Pours straw colour gloriously sweet after I’d had a slew of dry or med dry ciders. Nose is a little waxy but the sweetness is there also, little bit shallow on depth of flavour, but really very nice although that sweetness lingers. A6 A4 F7 P3 Ov14 3.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 07-05-09 Pours Pours mid gold with a nice farmy waft. This is refreshing with a good earthiness about it, touch of sweetness initially but nicely dry at the end, most enjoyable. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Fin (18516) reviewed Vilberie Cider from Hecks Farmhouse Cider 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 07-05-09 Pours light gold touch of haze. This had a lazy appley feel about it, in that the zingy apple and woody tastes that were always present only really started to come through after a while. There is a touch of wood on the nose the cider is quite dry though not as dry as I expected, good stuff. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask-conditioned at the Orchard, Bristol 6/02/09. Golden in colour, with a slight haze and no head. Sweetish aroma of caramel, stewed apple and some spice. Flavour also inclined toward sweetness, with some barnyard in the background. As Hughie states, a proper finish never really turned up. A bit disappointing.