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The Barbourne Cider Co. is a small family business based in Worcester. We use methods and techniques that have been perfected by cider makers for generations. With assistance from modern technology we make tasty ciders for all to enjoy.
Barbourne continue to use many of the methods and techniques that have been perfected by cider makers in Worcestershire for generations such as using wild yeasts in the fermentation process. They take pride in only using freshly pressed juice to make ciders and have never added artificial sweeteners to their award winning range of ciders and perries.
The orchards Barbourne use contain some of the older varieties of cider apples which make some really distinctive ciders. Early in the season they press Foxwhelp with Bulmers Norman, Redstreak and Major with Browns Apple and Harry Masters Jersey with Browns Apple. Later on other varieties ripen such as Lavignee, Brown Snout, White Norman and Kington Black. The Kingston Black is fermented on its own and bottle conditioned later as a single varietal cider. By mid November Barbourne are picking and pressing Dabinet, Yarlington Mill, Ashton Brown Jersey and finally Vilberie.
Barbourne continue to use many of the methods and techniques that have been perfected by cider makers in Worcestershire for generations such as using wild yeasts in the fermentation process. They take pride in only using freshly pressed juice to make ciders and have never added artificial sweeteners to their award winning range of ciders and perries.
The orchards Barbourne use contain some of the older varieties of cider apples which make some really distinctive ciders. Early in the season they press Foxwhelp with Bulmers Norman, Redstreak and Major with Browns Apple and Harry Masters Jersey with Browns Apple. Later on other varieties ripen such as Lavignee, Brown Snout, White Norman and Kington Black. The Kingston Black is fermented on its own and bottle conditioned later as a single varietal cider. By mid November Barbourne are picking and pressing Dabinet, Yarlington Mill, Ashton Brown Jersey and finally Vilberie.
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Thursday 8th May 2014 Pours looking like Robinsons Lemon flavoured Barley Water. A little pear drops on the nose. This like it’s Barbourne colleagues is a juicy perry. Clearly the most distinctive of the Barboune trio but also one that some might not get on with. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2014
at 22:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Thursday 8th May 2014 Hazy light straw colour, juicy with a lovely squishy pear tang, sweetish but very moreish. Nose is a little dusty, but I like this a lot. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.6
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2014
at 22:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Thursday 8th May 2014 Like the stablemate Worcestershire Perry this is also a hazy light straw colour. Another juicy but slightly tart wonderfully peary perry. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2014
at 16:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Polycask or BIB at The Plough, Worcester, Saturday 4th January 2014. Warm gold still, little hazy. Buzzy apples but softened by whisky cask ageing which actually doesn’t swamp this cider by its presence. Wonderful tangly sharp apples really nice. A bit of nail varnish and oak on nose, very good. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov14 3.5
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jan 2014
at 07:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
How: Cask.
Where: Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), 2013.
Appearance: Opaque light yellow colour with a small head.
Aroma: Manure, apple.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sour stable tart apple.
Where: Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), 2013.
Appearance: Opaque light yellow colour with a small head.
Aroma: Manure, apple.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sour stable tart apple.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Sep 2013
at 22:23
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Unclear hazy medium matt orange color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple,sour apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100805]
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2011
at 23:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.
Unclear light yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy pear, fruity pear, tart pear. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, sharp, chicken butt - aass. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100430]
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2010
at 02:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@GBBF2010. Hazy golden colour, small head. Aroma is apples, fruits, bluecheese, some mild spicyness. Flavour is quite dry and tart of pretty much the stuff found in the aroma.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2010
at 21:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From cask. Pours hazy yellow with no head. Aroma is dry and sulphorish. Citric to acidic apple flavoured. Citric and rather dry finish. Light sulphorish into the far finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2010
at 23:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
From the barrel at the Plough, Worcester, 31/05/10. Pale yellow in colour. Aroma of dryish fruit with a touch of spice and wood. Easy drinking for the ABV, with tart fruit and some more wood. Good.
Tried
on 31 May 2010
at 09:37