mcberko (47456) reviewed Mithras (2021-) from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
355mL can, pours a cloudy yellow, no head. Aroma brings out lots of nectarines, crisp apple skins, and some gentle funk. Flavour has a bit funk, with lots of apple core, gently tart nectarines, and apple skins. Gently funky, with lots of tart nectarines. Not complex, but it's pleasant.
mcberko (47456) reviewed No Fixed Abode (2020) from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a fairly clear dark-ish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma reveals a fair amount barnyard funk, some rustic notes, crisp pear skins, musty dry grape skins, and a touch of pineapple. Flavour is bright, funky, and complex, with juicy pineapple, barnyard funk, some champagne effervescence, a touch of grape skins, and crisp pears. The juicy sweetness is mild, but melds with funky character really well. Carbonation is higher than average, which tempers the sweetness. Complex and nuanced. Excellent.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Revdock from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tasting at Phill's, bottle
Pale blond colour, hazy. A bit farty, moderately acidic, the apple character is poor, but the fermentation profile is good. Off-dry.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Revdock from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750ml @ Phill's. Appearance: hazy blonde with a white head. Aroma: manur notes, some wild yeats, fermented apples. Taste: along the same lines, quite dry and funky. Overall: pretty good, but as usual in such stuff I would prefer more residual sugars.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Revdock from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy, pale yellow with quickly dissipating white head. Sourdough, funk, apple skin. Quite nice.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Revdock from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cloudy and pale green, just a bit of haze. No head. It's appley and with a bit of bugs and barrel. On the palate, definitely a barrel, fairly appley, and a bit of tartness. Light, tart, refreshing and subtlely complex.
neongolden (4416) reviewed Olo from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(355ml can from the cidery webshop) Pours nearly clear bright red with a nice cap of pink-white foam and no lace but some apparent strawberry pip sediment. Aroma is intense fresh sweet strawberries, vibes of those strawberry hard candies with wrappers that look like the berries, and dried berries in granola...more strawberry than strawberry. Back notes of barely funky yeastiness, fresh white grape, and some subtle florals. Flavour is quenching, lightly sweet with a little wine acidity, again lots of fresh sweet strawberries and a candy vibe to accent, backbeats of floral rose, something like cereals despite there being none, creamy full flavour with a little lactic vibe, long strawberry finish with no real phenolic pips and soft tannic bite. Medium-full body, creamy smooth can-conditioned carb. One of the best summer crushers in any genre (beer, wine, cider) I've had in a while. Fun stuff!
neongolden (4416) reviewed Mithras (2021-) from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(355ml can from the cidery) Pours very pale straw, lightly hazed with an average white head. Aroma of fresh-cut nectarines and peaches, sweet but with a glimpse of tartness, apples are lightly tart and in the background, interesting sweet herbal vaguely vanillin-like vibes that I guess are the sassafras, nice light dusty yeast. Flavour is lightly sweet and very lightly tart, quite dry, lots of nectarine throughout, accents of soft citrus and crisp green apple, sweet herbal sassafras is not overpowering but definitely there, dusty yeast but not particularly funky, mineral into the finish with lingering nectarine. Light bodied, moderate carbonation. Very fun crushable can and I like the uniqueness of the sassafras over the vanilla from previous vintages. Not overly complex but refreshing.
neongolden (4416) reviewed Sumac from Revel Cider 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery - this blend is cider, perry on De Chaunac skins and hot sumac tea) Pours lightly hazed copper-to-red with a brief head of white bubbls. Aroma is sweet, fruity and tangy with a fascinating note that is reminiscent of ketchup (but in a good way!) that I think is a blend of the sumac and sweet perry with a soft vinegar twang and red grape, tart apples, difficult to describe but really excellent. Flavour is moderate sweet pear, floral Gala-type apples, tart vinegar-inflected sumac, solid chewy tannins, red fruit blend, lactic acidic smoothess seems to provide the bulk of acidity despite the vineagr sumac notes, mineral into the finish with quite some drydown from the apple skin and grape pomace tannins into the aftertaste. Light to medium body with sparkling effervesence. One of the most interesting Revel bottles I've had in a while; the way in which the sumac lends vinegar flavour without much aceitc acidity is really cool.