7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from their cider club. A bit of a sleep in the basement. Served as is on a particularly cold day. Pint glass @home. Clear, oily medium gold with a quick soda head. Fumy maceration, browned apples, tobacco, sweet grain & farm funk. Really pushy nose. Steel, more bittersharp than bittersweet, lingering earthy funk, pear floral, pith, vanilla & slight sweetness. Old cheese rind. Slightly mousey. Definitely more pear/quince in this year. Lightly sizzle, lingering sharpness, low tart but medium high acid, thin. Good+, but hard to pound back a bottle. Just when I felt Eve's has gotten too pedestrian.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2024
at 19:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from their cider club. Completely different blend upfront, but at least it still has some Krys. Couple weeks in the fridge. Mojito glass @home. Thick but fleeting head. Clear, metallic, honey amber color, faintly active. Sweet, lightly floral, warmed lemon-honey, bitter scotch nose. More sharp then bittersweet upfront, like a fresh Snapdragon apple. Lemon-honey, lemon pith, sweet corn. Dirty Marigold floral. Calcium bitterness, continual Sweet-tart through the finish. Cork, raw oak, raw booze & oxidation on the tail. Sizzling carbonation, pithy but not egregious dry mouth; could be stronger. Really easy to drink. Drinks better then I rated it. Good+.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2023
at 21:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 from their bottle club. Month in the basement, couple weeks in the fridge. Rare Vos glass @home. Dusty but see through, pale orange-amber, fizzy pour. Earthy, dry barnyard, veggie-vinous, dried apple nose. Taste is upfront vinous, super pithy skin, juicy bittersweet, slight citrus peel, sharp grape, cake-y yeast, soft oxidation, & a hyper-drying popsicle stick finish. Sulfite headache. Medium low but fizzy carb, juicy, wet, about right abv. Okay to good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2023
at 01:19
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vintage-y bottle from their cider club. Couple weeks in the fridge to settle. Mojito glass @home. Strong pour, good mousse. Hazy honey gold. Smell is a rich mix of herbal & twangy, aerosol bittersweet, very plum at the end. Cherry + plum, dark cake. Semi-sweet, very sharp apple, lingering cherry skin, some old wood, soda water, yeasty cherry finish, slight menthol, bitter popsicle stick finish. Deep. Suddy, acidic, cherry-lime sweet, boozy-ish. Very good. Borderline great. Just needs a cohort to blend with.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2023
at 01:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Freshie from their cider club. Limited to a few wild, random trees that didn't suffer from the late freeze. Rare Vos glass @home. Note quite still, jelly clear, medium oily gold pour. Heavy banana-sake nose. Backdrop of sweet apple & varnish. Not inviting. Semi-sweet, sort of tart, fruity, lots of lingering menthol, half tannic, banana-clove finish. Very thin & nearly flat aside from a hiccup of carb. Pet-nat fail. Odd. Didn't hate it though. Half bottle on day 2 felt less estery & compact. Still tastes way too much like a hefewiezen for my liking. 2.9- 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2023
at 03:37
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 from their online club thing. Mojito glass @home. Clear, slightly oily, almost medium gold. Hazy second pour. Yeasty, saline, sharp floral, pineapple nose. Juicy, semi-sweet pear, floral yeast, barnyard, mildly tangy, slightly itchy pear skin, heavy veg, heavy clay, medium lemon acidity. Barely crispy, creamy, decent acid, lingering old apple funk. Good. Better than the last batch but still not awesome.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2023
at 22:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from their cider club. Lo-ball @home after a long plane ride. Clear, ruby, quick off-white soda sizzle & then silent. Hibiscus, grape jam, Rose-y bitters. Fleshy, bright red dessert apples, corn sweetness & a whole lot of thin, intensely fruity & tannic wine grapes, sweet leeks, tiny bit of veg, lingering popsicle stick. Middle high acid, lingering tart.The little church pamphlet says 50/50 ratio of skins to apple juice. So, yeah, insanely wine-y, juicy, earthy fruit, desperate for a steak feels. Co-ferments are nothing new. This is all because of limited fruit year to year(& maybe some places finally caved & say okay, we'll try), but this one, from a leading brand, is particularly good. It particularly kills at a price point where low intervention wines can barely approach. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2023
at 03:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle from their online cider club. Lo-ball @home. Semi-transparent, greasy, active pour. Minerally, sharp, grassy, new leather, boozy nose. Bittersweet, iron-y, chalky, Dabinett leather, slight dirty funk, bitter grass & sharpness on the tail; Subtle macerated sweetness. Crispy as always pet-nat. Not loving the blend though. Even then, it's still better than average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2023
at 23:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle form their cider club. Mojito glass @home. Clear, oily, active medium gold pour. Macerated brown apple sweetness, herbal, slight perfume, grassy, slightly boozy nose. Crispy, bitter-sharp apples, half-tart, leathery, lemon mineral water, butter, grassy endtrail. Thin, crispy, polite abv, well carbed-creamy bubble pet-nat. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2023
at 02:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle I bought at Rieker in Lancaster. Clear greenish gold, no head. Easy drinker and crisp. 7 3 7 3 13
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2023
at 15:25