Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can at a local restaurant in Bar Harbor Crispy, clear, mellow gold stemware pour. Oaky, red table apple & pear nose with a touch of white sugar. Earthy, dessert apple, off-dry despite the dry sell by the sommelier. Citric acid bite, lingering russet, a little fortification or sugar added. Easy, simple quaff that is more doable than at first glance.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
Can at hotel while work being done at home. Clear and bright pour. Some bubbles. Nose is sweet Macintosh and sugar. Tastes bee sweet and sugary. Some bubbles and light white wine. Too sweet tastes like the brits figure all our ciders taste (sweet and not good).
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Canned 10/23/17, drunk 11/11/17.
Filtered apple juice with little/no carbonation apparent. Typical "piss" colored lager appearance.
Syrupy-sweet, white table sugar with full-on concentrated apple juice in the nose. I think juicy juice boxes definitely smell better than this.
Insipidly and amazingly sweet in the mouth, with fizzy, forced carbonation. Concentrated apple juice syrup, table sugar and artificial chemical flavors abound with a thin (though retaining some of the sugar and syrupiness) texture. Truly awful and impressive that they've managed to outdo most of the macro hard ciders in said awfulness. Sadly, it doesn't quite have enough chemical or off-flavoring to give it a .5, and they even state that they add apple juice concentrate and sugar. But still, this stuff is vile and will give you diabetes in no time. One small sip, that I then spit out, was enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
LSAT Freedom Trip #44. Keg at Gritty McDuffs Auburn. Clear golden. Aroma of dry tannic apples, pears, apple skins. The taste is sweet apples, vanilla and a bit of earth. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
In the can @ home, thanks to Josh and Luke for sending! Pours a clear, light yellow appearance with no head. Straight forward red apple nose with maybe a slight hint of solvent. Juicy, pulp flavor. Moderately tart. Somewhat sweet. Moderate carbonation. Light white grape and pear taste. Ok.