Subsidiaries
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with a small white sparkling head. Aroma is pear, mild sugar, some wood and mild apples as well. Flavour is being quite much sticky sweet perry along with some mild wood and some slight sour/tart notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2011
at 02:24
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Part of my mix a six crap rate pack purchased at New Beer. Dropped this one into my backpack before going to work. Popped it open at lunch with some tasty hen soup. Clear plastic cup. Odd whiff of stale lager as the tab is opened. Pale macro color, with a wispy quarter inch of eggshell head & minimal activity. Smells like old, soured lager, aged on cigarette butts. Going in blind, you wouldn’t be able to tell this was a cider. Industrial or not, aroma is just plain absent. Taste is more tart then sweet. Something like half flat tamarind soda, but with a yeasty, mineral finish. Residuals taste like they carbonated it with hydrogen peroxide. Can states 30 grams of sugar, 285 calories. Honestly, it doesn’t seem that sweet. The high acidity covers up a lot of it. I’m sure I’ll have a headache later. Yes, I finished the can. I’ve had worse.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2011
at 10:54
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at home with Lyoli. Ok, this beer is interesting. Pours clear, barely faint yellow with some modest carbonation. Aroma is funky vinegar, chemicals and underripe green apples. Flavor is lots of green apples, not ripe, with some white sugar, chemistry, wool socks and leather. Light to medium in body with lively carbonation. Sweet finish, with more of the green apples, funky vinegar and some good boozy warmth. Obviously this is not a great drink, and from a quality standpoint I might give it a 2. But I do like touches of vinegar in my cider, and this one also is not cloyingly sweet. And the crunk value (7.5%abv for 79p) is off the charts. Not for the faint of heart, just the faint of cash.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2010
at 16:43
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From cask at Blackfriars. Pours hazy yellow with no head. Aroma is mild sulphorish, wooden and acidic apples. Flavour is sweet apples, slight wooden and mild sulphorish. Ends dry and slight acidic.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Nov 2010
at 01:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, Auld House, E’burgh. Cloudy tan. Light aroma - light apple, light booze. Tart at the finish. Very approachable, light good mainstream cider than anything farmhouse.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2010
at 13:37
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at The County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Pale clear gold, lasting white head. Pear/apple pie aroma. Nto as sweet as I feared. But not much pear either. Apple/pear pie is what I get. Slightly sweet. Not a perry. Sweetish pear fruit iwht tart carbonation. Not offensive. Just lacks character. Did win over my prejudice though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2010
at 14:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can. Clear light yellow with no head. Sweet yet funky pear aroma. The flavor is sweet on the front and tart on the back. Light and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2010
at 11:48
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask@The Junction Tavern. Yellowish golden, slightly hazy head, with not too much head. Aroma is fruits, apples, some slight yeast as well as mild acid. Flavour is apples, some other fruits, mild yeastyness as well as some spices and tartness. Pleasant, but not very complex.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2010
at 20:35
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Half Time. Pours lightly yellow water with no head. Light perry aroma. Near medium body with mild carbonation. The flavor is very tart, dry pear. It’s astringent. Seems more akin to cider than perry. Fairly dry, tho a bit of sweet keeps turning up. Not bad stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Aug 2010
at 22:02
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
bottle. golden small white head that soon disappears. aroma is actually toffee, some sweet apple. flavor is sweet pear and aple cider/juice, no acidity whatsoever, very soda-pop’ish, refreshing and drinkable, but not really a cider, more like a sodapop. besides the apple flavor, a strong toffee/caramel/dessert sweetness in the background.. Somehow the cider stays clear of being cloying, but not by a wide margin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2010
at 16:01