7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Old can I found on Press online. 2016 harvest, Lot 0617, imported by Shelton, lol. Snifter @home. Thin, unstable head, clear, amber pour. Sweet, macerated apple brandy nose. Taste is round & flat, low tart, cooked dessert apples & a little bittersweet. Hint of toffee. Earthy middle-end black tea lets the acid creep on the finish. Low, prickly carb, tacky. Very mellow. Last of this brand I'll see for a while.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2023
at 23:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Press, no Shelton sticker. Pint glass @home. Medium gold, quite clear, serious almond soda head. Smells very gamey & earthy initially. Like sniffing French cider in a newly planted field; apple mulch & fresh fertilizer. After that passes it's earthy-sharp, macerated, sweet, slurried apples & really wet mulch. Taste is earth, big Dabinett leather, farmhouse, thick-skinned honey-sharp apples, dirty chitlins, sweet baby Aspirin. Very English with some pinches of acid. Confusingly sweet. Thin body, lingering acid, dusty residual, medium high heat, sulfite headache. Okay-ish.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2023
at 00:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Press. Shelton Bros sticker, hmm... Three weeks of chill time, pint glass @home. Jellied, mostly clear medium gold pour. Fizzy, marzipan soda head that lingers a little greasily. Very fresh, arrested, juicy apples with a distinct & inviting mango note. Juicy-sweet & honey-like upfront, it turns bitter-tart down the middle. Cherry skin, oak & Chisel Jersey bitterness. Only reason I can pick it out is because I've had at least three Chisel Jersey one-off bottles recently(plus the label made me go oh, yeah). Thick, a touch sticky, fizzled carbonation, too low abv. So yeah, a little pedestrian & easy, but full-flavored & gives a little something interesting. $5, imported, legit cider(Keeved!).
Tried
from Can
on 17 Apr 2023
at 23:56
7.8/10
Very sweet, concentrated Apple. Super clean, but with so much sugar remaining
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2021
at 08:44
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at the Spring DC tasting. Poured a golden yellow color with not much of a head to speak of at all. Aroma was smooth, apples, smooth, sweet, but not sickly sweet. Really smooth and warming. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2021
at 05:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
50cl bottle brought back from New Zealand, pours an oily gold, leggy, no head. Nose is sweet apple juice, some candy, some pear, honey. Sweet apple juice flavor, some cake, vanilla. Finishes a little hot but otherwise oily and lucious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2021
at 21:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a bottle courtesy of Nimbleprop. Pours crystal clear gold with no head. Aromas of apple Brown Betty. Flavors are very sweet overripe apples.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2021
at 20:15
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Some pecan. Icing sugar and mango. Pretty nice balance. Golden pour. Not bad at all. Some booze. Great balance.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Apr 2021
at 19:48
7/10
Slightly dry but incredibly smooth.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jul 2020
at 23:11
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pint at LBQ Wellington, pours a murky watery gold, no head. Nose has some funk, but more rotting apple core than anything, green apple is there but red apple too. Flavor is similar, some apple notes, some earthy notes but not a ton happening. Finishes just drier than sweet. Earthy but I feel like this missed the mark. 6 2 6 2 10
Tried
on 13 Feb 2020
at 08:52