Three Wise Birds

Cidery in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand 🇳🇿

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1412 Pakowhai Road, Tomoana, Hastings, 4120, New Zealand
Description
You can call it craft, you can call it premium, we even call it ‘NZ style’. Truth is you can call it what you want, we’re just trying to make really good cider, for you to enjoy. Three Wise Birds is a Hawke’s Bay based cider company, run by brothers Jack and Charley Crasborn. A family name synonymous with the apple industry and growing world-class produce. The brothers have a history from the soil; having grown up on the family’s orchards in the fruit bowl of New Zealand. The lads grew up picking, packing and selling the very apples they now use and as such have a great understanding of the quality that goes into making their cider. A true branch to bottle story. We’re big on premium ingredients, real flavours and good times. To make this happen we believe in making our cider from only the best New Zealand apple varieties grown here in the Hawke’s Bay. Giving our cider, clean, crisp and refreshingly dry characteristics. Characteristics we believe fit the New Zealand way of life, whether it be the backyard, the beach or beyond.

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Tried on 05 Jan 2025 at 14:55


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Tried on 05 Jan 2025 at 14:55


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Tried on 05 Jan 2025 at 14:55


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from lowcostbeer.com. Pale clear yellow with brief fizz. Aroma of cooking apple skins and nectarine - quite a drying presence. Taste is very much bittersweet apple pith and nectarine. More juicy and sweet than expected from aroma - makes it very tasty and drinkable although lacks some nuance. #3779 Rates #50 New Zealand rates

Tried from Can on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:04


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from Beers of Europe, online. Pours a pale straw colour, brief fizzy bubbles. Aroma of dry and slight funky apple juice with skins and core. Taste is slightly tart green apple juice. Not the most fruity but I'm starting to get that the one advantage of this filtered spritzy style of cider is it is indeed clean, crisp and refreshing and this is a good example.

Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2024 at 02:22


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can at home. Pours pale clear golden, nose is apple, funk, earthy, some nectarine, taste is sweet juicy apple, fruity, toffee. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hawkeye on 25 Oct 2023 at 21:40 - Score: 6

Tried from Can on 25 Oct 2023 at 20:40


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Panda at home, thanks to Graham Grumbo, 17/09/23. Pale yellow with a white cap that thins to a swirl and edge work. Nose is modest apple, herb, hedgerow, grains. Taste comprises light sweet apple skins, stewed apple, modest pineapple tang. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Not unpleasant but a little stuck in 3rd gear.

Tried on 17 Sep 2023 at 13:54


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

31/8/2023. Can from New Zealand Beer Collective. New Zealand rating #100. Pours clear very pale gold with a small frothy white head. Aroma is ripe pineapple, apple, sulphur, caramel, citrus. Medium sweetness, light sourness. Moderate body, oily, foamy carbonation. Not bad.

Tried from Can on 30 Aug 2023 at 18:41


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

7/8/2023. Can from New Zealand Beer Collective. Pours clear very pale gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of semi-sweet apple, mild funky notes, sulphur, citrus. Medium sweetness and light sourness. Moderate body, quite fizzy. Quite likeable.

Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2023 at 21:10


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

7/8/2023. Can from New Zealand Beer Collective. Pours clear very pale gold with a small short lasting frothy white head. Aroma is mucky, apple, vanilla, not a lot of nectarine. Medium sweetness and light tartness. Moderate body, fizzy. Fair.

Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2023 at 21:10