Frome Valley Herefordshire Dry Cider

Brewed by Henneys Cider
Style: Cider
Much Cowarne, England

Chitown RB gathering Jan 2010: bottle shared by Frank, thanks

Golden hue with a small fizzy head. The aroma is a tad earthy and funky, leafy with a bit of unfermented sugars and butterscotch along with the expected apple overtone. The taste is apple juice and sugar, a tad woody, fleshy, and earthy as well. The mouth feel is sticky and soft. If not for the sugars this would be nice, hardly a "dry cider" if you ask me.

Enjoyed at the Flossmoor Station RB tasting, 1/16/2010: This poured a golden yellow body with active carbonation and a few big bubbles on top. It had an aroma of aging apples stored in an old damp bushel basket. The flavor started off fairly sweet but developed a dry crispness near the finish. Tasty.

Dry darker gold. Aromas are a touch of horseblanket, stink, crisp apples, lightly sweet with a touch of funkiness. Decent body, sweet and dry in nice harmony.

Clear apple juice color w/ a few bubbles of foam on top. Semi-sweet (even though it calls itself dry) and champagne-like. Slightly phenolic and funky. Good acidic balance /w some nice apple and floral notes. Definitely this was sweetened w/ a bit of apple juice but it still comes across as a reasonably good beverage.

bottle, purchased at Wairtose Abergavenny. Clear pale golden colour. Fruity nose. Dry apple flavours with a low level of sweetness, yet not astringent.

50 cL clear bottle. Pours golden yellow with a small to fully gone head. Aroma is slight sulphorish and dry apple aroma. Sweet flavoured with a genuine sulphorish note and vague butterish touch (!?!). Authentic dry apple flavoured finish.

In bottle. Apricot color, quite clear. Smells like a pile of apples that has been in the sun for a few hours. The aroma made me expect to see bees buzzing around the bottle. Taste is crisp and refreshing. The palate was quite nice. I think the yeast gives it some extra depth, although I don’t know how to explain that statement.

In bottle from Beertopia. Pours urinary tract infection gold. has a large white head that, while diminished, maintains incredible ring atop the cider throughout. Very nice apple aroma. Slightly musty. Fantastic sweet flavor, very low acidity or tartness but a solid drying at the end, leaving the mouth parched. Very nice cider.