3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 16/20
375 ml bottle about 2 years old. Clear golden straw that leaves a clingy film. Nose is pear, baked apple and vanilla. Very syrupy, i’m reminded of melted Lifesavers. Taste is very sweet applesauce and caramelized sugar. Touches of green apple, cinnamon and grenadine. Gets ponderous after a while. Thick but not quite cloying.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at the double 5k tasting. Pours a clear gold. Big sweet candy apples. Tangy and full, sweet caramel and candy. Tangy, long velvety apple. Big slow apples. Really nice. Holds it’s own in the ice cider world.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared by someone at Paul and Ryan’s 5000th celebrations, thanks! Poured a clear gold with a white head that dissipated quickly to the edges. Aroma was full of apples, mainly sweet some tart, with a bit of backing alcohol. Flavor was quite sweet with apples throughout with a bit of alcohol coming out in the finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sweet apple nose, light honey. Taste is very sweet, tons of sweet fresh apple juice, lots of honey, light pears. Very solid ice cider.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Snatched this bottle from yobdoog as he was pulling out of the BCTC parking lot. :P
Baby Duvel tulip. Pours a deep staining yellow/orange color, similar to annatto oil(or maybe watered down iodine if that paints a better picture).
Smell is a mix of sugar glaze & wet/musty leaves, with an inviting tart/rindy bitter note that I believed was a hint at the taste(but ended up not being so).
Thick, rich & lush. Honey & comice pears, more so then honey crisps. Vanilla? Bit of butter & gamey-ness included. Must be that unique Jersey terrior. :P
Acidity is mostly absent in this cider. The body is unusually heavy & filled to the brim with caramelized sugars. Too sticky when warm. There was a sense of lacquer I got on every other drawn out sip. (I’m just trying to find excuses to downplay it at this point, sorry). It was a nice, surprisingly affordable experience. Thank you Trev. :P
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle 375ml. @ Halloween Tasting by cgarvieuk.
Clear medium yellow (piss yellow) color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy apple, sour apple, sweet apple, intense apple, cheese notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and light moderate acidic with a long duration, apple, lovely. Body is medium, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to heavy alcoholic. [20101030]
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, halloween tasting @ cgarvieuk. Golden colour, no head. Aroma is sour apple and cheese, bit of yeast. Flavour is sweet apple, syrup, sugar. Intense apple. Smooth and very enjoyable.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Craig’s, Edinburgh tasting, big thanks to Craig for this Ice Cider. Shared in company of Craig, Stella, Jan, Charlotte, Fritz and Loz 30.10.10 This poured mid yellow with good clarity. It’s sticky yet fresh apples showing. There is an almost syrup like consistency, lovely apple tart, sweet and silkly gorgeous, and yet amazingly tart at times. There is a nice thickness in mouth, lovely stuff. A8 A4 T9 P4 Ov17 4.2
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
bottle at home... thanks to the big CHEESE ... golden yellow ... syrupy sweet apples ... oily sweet syrupy appple.... intense apple... its all apple ... tones of apple pie ... light spiced apple in linger ...
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
(375ml bottle) pours clear still bright yellow with absolutely sick alcohol legs. Nose of sweet apples, honey, florals, light touch of alcohol. Taste of very sweet apple, honey, light florals, and reminds me of apple juice. Smooth palate finish, absolutely no hint of alcohol. If it was a touch less sweet it would be even better, but as it is, it’s quite good.
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