Blackthorn Cider 4.7%

Brewed by Matthew Clark Cider (C&C Group)
Style: Cider
Bristol, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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Can. Weak, almost non-existing aroma. Golden yellow colour. Very dry apple flavour with some wood. A slight touch of vinegar and yeast.

UPDATED: NOV 13, 2011 Can - Clear gold with a fun jumpy carbonation and no head. Yeast, and sour apple smell. Dry apple flavour with some wood. Light sour taste with some syrup. Watery with light carbonation.

Can from Thai supermarket. Clear beautiful golden/orange body, no head as usual. Nose is wood, yellow and red apples with touches of yeast. Taste is sweet yellow apples up front, then a wooden tart tone sets in and lasts throughout the rest of the palate. Dry finish, medium carbonation. Quite all right in my book.

44cl can from the Coop. More or less a straight up commercial cider. Toasted apple aroma. Sweetish cider in mouth. just a bit bland. Fine but not really very appley. Dull and a touch sweet.

Draught @ St Stephens Tavern, 10 Bridge Street, Westminster, London, Greater London, England SW1A 2JR.

Clear medium orange color with virtually none off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate apple, overripped apple, light sour apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, fresh. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [20100101]

UPDATED: APR 25, 2010 500ml can. Sour apple aroma. Orange Amber colour. Very dry apple flavour. Couldn’t finish the tin.

0.5 L Can. Straw-yellow color with bubbleish appearance. Ridiculous aroma of co2, dextrose, saccharine, slight sourish apple, huge amount of rusty metal paired with a somewhat chlorinated swimming-pool character. Additive driven off-flavors dominates the whole palate. The main mouthfeel is basically sour with citric acid, rusty metal and other chemical acids. Terrible (unfortunately long-life) sulphurous, acid aftertaste. Watery, flat surface. Chemical, industrial crap for horrible price (here in Hungary :)). Waste of time and money. Amazingly unbalanced.

Can, probably from Geoffrey’s of London, Antibes (http://www.geoffreysoflondon.com/)
Gold-amber body, extremely fizzy, medium sized white head. Burnt popcorn nose, more of the same in the taste, only with light apple and acidity. It’s basically crap (even overrating it a little I reckon) and I can see why the West Country people were pissed off when it came out.

09/10 0.44 l can from an English shop in Antibes. It poured golden body with smaller head that went down quite fast. Burned rubber stench, flavor about the same as well, weak, boring, without aftertaste. Well, I don’t want another rubbergum anyway! And they even dare to say improved taste on the can! Ughhh, what crap this is!

Can. Nice deep clear golden colour. Sweet squeezed apple juice aroma with rubber. Good mouthfeel. Sweet apple juice flavour with a mild sourness and something woodish.