1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Clear amber color, minimal head. Aroma of overly ripe red delicious apples. Tartness is overly strong. Poor.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Single 33 cl bottle, $1.29 @ Binnys. Pours with a singular gushy fizz sound I’m hearing when I have a bottled cider. Clear apple juice color, just a few trickles of bubbles. Smell is a mix of sweet and tart apple, but some sugar and preservative are in the nose as well. Taste is, well, just what it says. Fermented apple juice with carbonated water, Some notes of bleach. Meant to be slammed at a bar, not intended for contemplation.
1.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20
Pours a clear dark-gold with no head. Smells of sour apple concentrate and little else. Taste is yeasty, apple, and heavy sourness. Sourness is too unpleasant. I couldn’t finish the bottle. No good.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Can. Pours no head as expected. Very dry finish. Slight fruityness to it. I wish to try more cider.
3.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
This is a light tasting cider beer and thats the way they must have wanted this one. Very good taste, I like this one, +++
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
From tap@The World End, Camden. A ring of greyish bubbles upon a bright gold colored body. Sweet apples with metal and sulphur notes in the aroma. Moderate apple flavor, with a touch of farmyard. Some acidity in addition to the sweetness. Light to medium body. Lots of fizz. Drinkable, but not very exiciting.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
On tap at the Rustic Vine, Bristol 13/09/10. This was the version that replaced the 4.7% sweetened one that was so unpleasant it led to Blackthorn being removed from dozens of pubs in the Bristol area, and a campaign by disappointed drinkers. If this is an improved cider, then that one must have been truly awful.........Orange and very fizzy. Mushy, still sweetish apple pulp, with not much character and a sugary finish. I’m now mounting my own boycott of this product.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500mL Can from the LCBO. Clear, pale yellow colour, fairly carbonated. Aroma is sweet apples. Taste is pleasant, not unbearingly sweet despite its artificiality. Still, a tad more pleasant than Strongbow.
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