Hurst View Cider

Cidery in Stafford, Staffordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Snuggery Tap - Out of business

Established in 2011

Contact
Investsey Road, Wheaton Aston, Stafford, ST19 9QP, England
Description
We are small Staffordshire craft cidermakers run by Nick and Sue Rowbotham. Driven by our enthusiasm and passion for real craft cider, we started making cider in 2011 from our home based cider shed at Ivetsey Bank, Wheaton Aston.

Our cider is made with locally sourced Staffordshire apples and traditional dabbinett bittersweet cider apples. The freshly pressed 100% juice is then blended and left to ferment naturally with its own wild yeasts. The cider is then matured to produce a traditional craft cider with character and flavour. Our cider may change flavour from batch to batch as unsulphited wild yeasts are unpredictable as mother nature.

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7/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Polycask @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Hurst View Dabinett SV Cider (3) ].Clear light to medium yellow color with a green note, virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, green apples, fruity apples, pear notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart apples, apple, pear notes, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [20140815]
Tried from Cask on 04 Jul 2015 at 02:27

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Whitchurch Food Festival 2014. Pours clear gold. Vanilla icing aroma. Taste is sweet apples, dulled caramel, vanilla and a sticky sweet finish. Quite nice.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2014 at 13:00

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF
Hazy yellow, no head or lacing. Aroma is apples and sugar. Taste is apples, sweet and pear, dry finish
Nice
Tried from Cask on 24 Aug 2014 at 21:00

8.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
@ GBBF 2014. Sourish fresh nose. Sour-sweet and lots of tannins in the beginning. Great deepness, fresh, still easy to drink with nice appley flavour, tannins. The aftertaste is long, fruity intense, full of flavour and deepness. Not too dry, nice rest sweetness here. Great!
Tried on 13 Aug 2014 at 14:51

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
500ml bottle @ 7th Shrewsbury Bottle Share, Aug 14, as part of our significant others’ ’cider share’, thanks to my better half Sophie. Pours hazy gold, no head. Has a soft, well blended fruitiness mixing soft eating apple fruits with sharp underripe apples, tannin rich flesh and sharp gooseberries. A great cider.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2014 at 01:07

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draught @ Whitchurch Food & Drink Festival June 14. Pours hazy deep yellow, nice Dabinett taste, a little musky, some custard, vanilla, a subtle tang.
Tried on 01 Jun 2014 at 11:11

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draught @ The Bhurtpore Inn, Aston. Pours a cloudy scrumpy colour, with a richer fruitiness than I expected. Mild sour elements with an enticing sweet character. Not bad.
Tried on 28 Apr 2014 at 02:49