Bomber. Bought at Safeway in CDA, ID. Pours cloudy pale yellow with no head. Aroma is apples, wood, maple syrup, weird. Taste is sweet and tart and finishes a little bitter. Alcohol is pretty strong. Carbonation is average; body is medium to full. Really tasty and different.

Pours clear gold into a shaker. Faint carbonation with no head. Sweet apple and funk aromas. Dry with brett and marshmallow funk upfront turning to even drier, abrupt apple finish.

Purchased at Breeze Thru Wine & Spirits in Milwaukee, WI; enjoyed prior to leaving for the airport to escape my frigid city. Appearance a light gold with no head, looks like slightly yellow water with tiny carbonation bubbles. Aroma of sugar and apple juice. Taste is pretty crisp, definitely tastes like natural apples, and a bit cider like, nothing much more though. It’s decent stuff, nothing outstanding, just standard.

Bottle. Pours with a murky yellow hued body with a fizzy white head (large at first) that fades to a ring. Strong fruity esters from a mile away. Lots of pear, and apple and honey suckle. Further aromas of vanillin, floral, honey, spicy oak, cardboard, sweetness, mild sulfur, banana, caramel and hazelnut. Definitely creative, and interesting Crispin stuff. Flavors are sadly sweet, oaky, rye, spicy cinnamon. CRISPIN: DO NOT BACK BLEND. No need for the extra sweetness...Saccharin or fresh cider are both unwelcome in this format. Mild tannin, banana esters. Strong floral esters, mild yeasty phenols. Lots of nutty, and slightly spicy character from the barrel. Slightly warming. I have no clue why the sweeten this; I’d imagine that it would be much more enjoyable without the sweetness. Vanillin, oak and barrel. Mild acidity and sulfur. So close, and it is easy to point out the failure. Lively bubbles, dry, mild tannin. Interesting, good, just not right with the sweetness.

Pours chunky pale yellow into a Sam glass. Bright white head crackles as it recedes to hug rim. Rye and apple aromas. Sweet oak and rye upfront turning to hot apple in the lasting finish.

12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Pours a hazy yellow color with a fizzy white head that fades quickly. Aroma of tart and candy apple notes, wood, whisky and spice. The taste is sweet apples, earthy notes, wood and whisky. Tart finish. Medium bodied. Interesting.

Pours pale yellow into a shaker. Head crackles and recedes to nothing. Sour apple and funk aromas. Dry, sweet hard candy apple upfront turning to mild skin in the abrupt finish.

Bottle from the Nugget on Covel in Davis, CA. Pours hazy dishwater gold. Aromas of ripe green apple skin and spiced peach. Near medium body. Flavor is green apple, light stone fruit, clove?, rye, and some astringent oak. One of the two best ciders I’ve had, and both have been from Crispin. Just goes to show that barrel aging will improve anything. Nice dry finish.

Refrigerated bottle poured into a white wine glass. Pours pale yellow almost clear with very little head that dissapates quickly. No lacing, very little carbonation, and light body. Taste is dry apple, a little honey, and a hint of alcohol that peaks out some. This is better as it warms.