Although complete novices, they were inspired by the results and in the thrird year Mark found some Victorian press ironwork on a reclamation site, bought a freshly felled oak tree and built a large Oak twin screw press with the green oak, which could hold over 1 tonne of crushed apples per pressing or per 'cheese' as it is called in the trade. Using the traditional Devon method of pressing crushed apples between layers of straw and fermenting the juice in oak barrels with wild yeasts, they filled several barrels and went on to win the 2009 and 2010 Devon County Show first prize for Dry Farmhouse Cyder. It got people interested and asking where they could buy it so the growing hobby became the beginnings of a small business. More prizes have been won year on year since then and the interest in Ventons Devon Cyder has continued to rise in line with that.
Stuu (34178) reviewed Skippy's Scrumpy from Ventons Cider 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Carron works. Pours hazy orange, nose is apple, light vinegar, taste is dry, apple. --- Beer merged from original tick of Skippy's Scrumpy on 21 Aug 2017 at 09:12 - Score: 6
minutemat (16469) reviewed Skippy's Scrumpy from Ventons Cider 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Box @ JDW Shrewsbury Hotel. Pours cloudy gold, slightly mucky looking. Aroma of light acidic fruit. Taste is dry and acidic, pinching away the apple fruit with a bitter dry character. Kind of ok.
Parmenion777 (1984) reviewed Skippy's Scrumpy from Ventons Cider 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy pale yellow colour with almost no head. Aroma is musty store apples and damp straw. A dry light tart apple taste. Still and medium bodied with a dry finish.
danlo (13332) reviewed Skippy's Scrumpy from Ventons Cider 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
BIAB at Tanners Hall Darlington JDW 2017 cider fest. Hazy golden colour, no head and aroma of horseblanket funk. Taste is mellow musty apple, some tartness with barnyard leathery horseblanket funk and drying tannin. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry funky finish. Very drinkable.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Skippy's Scrumpy from Ventons Cider 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Gravity dispense (bag-in-box) @ NBF 2016 [ The 41th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 9th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Venton Skippy Scrumpy ].Clear medium orange yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, sweet apples, vanilla, light barnyard. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, apple, sweet apple, barnyard, funky, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20161013] 7-2-8-3-15
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Box @ Cuthbert Brodrick, Leeds. Slightly hazed golden-yellow coloured. Has plenty of apple in its nose, with a dryness to its apple in taste, with a little bit of activity on the tongue.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Polypin at standing order.. Hazy Amber.. Thin white lacing soft.. Dry apple metallic fruit nose.. Soft dry apple
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
BIAB at the Standing order. Pours murky orange with no head. Aromas of apple, wood. Taste is sour, dry, faint tickle of carbonation on the tongue. Light sour finish.
Stuu (34178) ticked Apple Vice Cider from Ventons Cider 9 years ago
Bag in box at the standing order. Pours golden yellow, nose is funky, apple, oak, taste is dry, tart apple, little sour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
BIAB at Tanners Hall JDW Darlington. Hazy yellow gold colour, no head and funky apple nose. Flavour is mellow apple, sour vinegar, oaky and barnyard notes, bittersweet with drying tannins. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, very dry tart and tannic at the finish. Nicely drinkable.