Ciderhuset Balholm

Cidery in Balestrand, Vestland, Norway 🇳🇴

Established in 1922

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Sjøtunsvegen 32, Balestrand, 6899, Norway

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4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle courtesy of Gunfryd. Practical clear golden body with lively carbonation and a small, fast disappearing white head. Aroma is apple with some overripe fruit and light acidity. Flavor is both sweet and acidic with apple and something difficult to identify, but it slightly unpleasant and don’t remind me of gooseberries really. More like ripe, almost rotten fruit. Medium body and sweet/acidic aftertaste with the same flavors as the main flavor. Not totally undrinkable, but not very pleasant either. Strange and kinda unbalanced. Ending up to sweet for me, almost sticky even if it’s acidic as well.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2017 at 13:55


4.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

24.06.2017, 0,75l bottle @ home:
Nice fizzy-creamy shortlasting head. Aroma is strange sour-ish mineraly, sorrel, ashes, fruit stones, paper, minerals, apple cores, old hay, herbs, sawdust, apple peel, rubber, burnt toast, alcohol, old fallen apples. Taste is sour-ish dry mineraly, sorrel, unripe gooseberries, minerals, ashes, fruit stones, apple cores, apple peel, sour apples, grass, burnt toast, weeds, paper, berry skin, citrus acid. Medium bitterness, slightly sour-ish metallic mouthfeel. Just weird.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2017 at 13:38


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

500 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 6%. Golden colour, pours moderately sparkling with a minimal white head. Aroma of apples, dark fruits / berries and malts. Soft mouthfeel, very moderate carbonation. Flavour of apples and malts, slightly dry. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2017 at 08:56


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

750 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 8%. Golden colour, very moderate carbonation, no head. Nice aroma of apples, plums and prunes. Fairly sweet flavour of dessert apples, hints of plums. Soft mouthfeel. Delicious. Much better than Emma in the same cider series.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2017 at 08:09


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

750 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. Pours sparkling pale golden with a large but shortlived head. Aroma of apples, crushed red gooseberries and some less pleasant unfresh notes, bordering on bandaid and vomit. The flavour is somewhat better, fairly fresh with notes of apples and gooseberries, some bandaid in the finish. Not one to continue with, Balholm. Won’t buy again.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2017 at 13:47


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

06.05.2017, 0,75l bottle @ home:
Tiny bubbly shortlasting head, light straw colored. Aroma is slightly dry fruity, hay, fruit stones, yeast, plums, flowers, apple cores, apple peel, grass, alcohol, tiny hints of smoke. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, plums, grass, fruit stones, hay, apple peel, apple cores, minerals, dry apples. Medium bitterness, slightly dry fruity mouthfeel. Fair enough.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jun 2017 at 13:37


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

330 ml clear bottle, from Coop Extra, Jørpeland. ABV is 4.7%. Perry brewed with aromatic hops. Very pale golden colour, pours moderately sparkling with a small and shortlived white head. Moderate aroma of pears and herbal hops. The flavour is dry and slightly watery, with some acidic pear notes and hints of hops. Could have been better, could have been worse.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2017 at 18:05


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

500ml bottle at Bardus Bar. Deep warm golden body. No lace, missing head. Apple aroma, dry, some citric hints. Apple juicy favours with distant notes of cat piss. Dry, rather sweet ending. Rounded mouth feel. Unvaried, but drinkable. (Meet-up with Ellen, Tromsø 31.03.2017).

Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2017 at 13:26


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

330ml bottle from Meny, Oslo City. Pours pale yellow. Aroma is bright sweet perry pears and green apple. Taste is remarkably dry with soft, sweet perry fruit. Fine, but lacks a bit of life.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2017 at 11:43


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle from Meny, Oslo City. Pours clear gold, aroma of fresh fruity apple juice. Taste bears fresh apple juice with a drying finish. Very clean on the palate, although lightly sticky, with a light sparkle. Good fruity character. Easy-drinking. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2017 at 09:46