6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2009 vintage. Golden in colour with next to no carbonation. Light, dryish aroma of fruit with some oak wood in the background. Flavour was sweet upfront, with plenty of apple character and a touch of flintiness, before a medium dry finish. Good.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2010
at 08:11
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From cask at Marble Arch. Pours hazy yellow to orange with no head. Aroma is dry and slight sulphorish to acidic apple. Crisp apple fruity and mild sulphorish. Mild citric, crisp fruity and somewhat sweet. Lingering sulphorish and apple fruity finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Nov 2010
at 13:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vaguely apple and an interesting cinnamon note on the nose. Cloudy tan. Dry with some spicy, lively fruit character. Interesting bubblegum character. Nice stuff.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2010
at 14:17
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a polypin at the Seven Stars, Bristol 29/06/10. Pale, slightly hazy gold, with a touch of carbonation. Farty, barnyard character colliding head on with some artificial sweetness. Strange, but still drinkable.
Earlier Rating: 6/29/2010 Total Score: 3.2
From a polypin at the Seven Stars, Bristol 29/06/10. Pale, slightly cloudy gold with a hint of carbonation. As Hughie states, some decent fruit upfront, followed by a barnyard edge and medium dry finish. A very solid cider.
Earlier Rating: 6/29/2010 Total Score: 3.2
From a polypin at the Seven Stars, Bristol 29/06/10. Pale, slightly cloudy gold with a hint of carbonation. As Hughie states, some decent fruit upfront, followed by a barnyard edge and medium dry finish. A very solid cider.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2010
at 16:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A hazy golden cider. The aroma has strong notes of apples. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of apple cores, leading to a tart but still sweet finish.
Tried
on 17 May 2010
at 14:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
HBF2009. Hazy orange colour, no head. Aroma is vanilla, wood, barnyard, slight baconlike notes as well. Flavour is extremely dry apples, some yeast and mild briecheese. pleasantly balanced cider.
Tried
on 16 May 2009
at 06:47
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Polypin at the Orchard, Bristol, 08/05/09. Gold with no head or carbonation. Contrasted between tart apple fruit and an underlying taste of sugar/stewed apples. As the Orchard also sells the sweet and dry versions, I suspect this may have been a ’half and half’. Ok.
Tried
on 08 May 2009
at 20:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask-conditioned at The Royal Oak, Bath 5/7/08. Cloudy yellow in colour with no head. Fresh apple and cinnamon aroma. Flavour was dry with plenty of yeast, tart apples and a spicy finish. Very drinkable given the strength.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jul 2008
at 18:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Handpump at Well House Tavern, Exeter, Devon, 12-11-06. This was a touch sweet, but don’t let me take that away from what was an excellent cider had a nice slighlty aged quality to it a bit rough around the edges but that I found very likeable lovely fruity and very tasty, only thing lacking was there wasn’t much of an aroma.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2006
at 14:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
From the barrel at the cider farm. Hazy pale gold colour. Fresh and fruity, with some sweetness.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2006
at 09:21