6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jul 2009
at 19:32
6/10
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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
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Jul 2009
at 08:23
6.8/10
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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
Tried
from Cask
on 09 May 2009
at 04:16
6.9/10
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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
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2009
at 01:25
6.9/10
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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
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2009
at 01:22
6/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Feb 2009
at 17:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a polypin at the Orchard, Bristol 6/02/09. Very sweet, with a touch of muscat grapes and a syrupy finish. However, this was offset by an underlying juicy pear flavour and a hint of spiciness. Ok.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2009
at 16:01
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bon Accord. Hazy light orange colour, no head. Aroma is phenolic, with medicine. Flavour of sour, ripe, rotten apple. Strong phenolic. Dry finish.
Tried
on 29 Jan 2009
at 08:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Had@HBF2007 (7.5%). Hazy deep golden colour, no head. Aroma is tart apples with some bluecheesy notes as well as some earthyness. Flavour is tart apples along with with some bluecheesy and mouldy earthy notes. Some slight woodenness in the finish. Dry and nice.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2009
at 07:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask at Three Judges as Portias Perfection (to avoid confusion to a porter). Pours hazy yellow with a fully gone head. Light barnyard and dry phenolic aroma. Light smoked and solid phenolic flavoured with a distinct dryness an the smoke coming up from the back of the nose. Ends dry and acidic with a light apple dryness.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Nov 2008
at 05:31