Blackthorn Cider

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

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

Bottle. Pours sparkling yellow gold with a quickly disappearing head. Tart apple aroma. The flavor is like watered down apple juice, with a strange note of apple cider vinegar. Drinkable.

Apple cider, lively at pour with the head gone instantaneously. Aroma of apple peel and vinegar. Taste of apple and an offputting sourness akin to vinegar. Astringent, tart, thin, chewy and undrinkable.

Bottle. Pours aggressively fizzy and quickly dissipates in to a still clear straw color. Aroma is faint apple juice with a dry beer like note. Flavor is light, dry with a sweet apple juice like flavor. Nothing to write home about at all.

(11/4/08) Draught at Hamilton’s in San Diego. Clear yrllow color. Aroma green apples. Sweetish flavor of apples and light sourish hints. Light-bodied.

Bottle poured into a pint glass and consumed and talked about with the girlfriend. This brew is lighter gold, with a whitish head, largely transparent. Aromas are apple juice, must, light alcohol notes. Taste is similar, a dry cider that still remains a little sweet on the palate. A good idea, but a bad execution.

Draft. And crappy - like flavored water, you can not reallly fill out the character count here.

bottle as lice cold filtered blackthorn cider 5.5% appears orange, small white head. aroma alc. sweetness from apples, slight acidness. flavor is very dry, campagne or dry white wineish, not very sour, not very acid, not very sweet. just dry. nice, but i miss a lot more apple sweetness and acid before i clap my hands.

On draft at Redlight. Not a strong apple scent and slightly metallic. Taste is of apples, but not overly sweet. Very dry.