Bridge Farm Cider - Dry

Brewed by Bridge Farm Cider
Style: Cider
Yeovil, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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A Mes rate: Barrel at GBBF. Slightly spiced apple juice. Lacking character but drinkable enough. Rather dull really.

Cask@GBBF2011. Hazy yellow colour, no head. Aroma is apples, yeast, wood, herbs and some slight spicy and alcoholic notes. Flavour is apples, yeast, wood and some herbal notes. Mild toffeeish notes in the aftertaste as well.

Cask at GBBF. Clear golden color. Aroma of leather and fruit. Taste has lots of tannin. OK.

Barrel at GBBF 2007. A hazy light golden cider with no head. The aroma is acidic apply - quite nice. The flavor is acidic apply with a dry finish.

Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3   Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 1   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 3   Bread : 2   Hay: XX   Brett : 1   Floral: 3   Wood: 3   Leather: 1   Barnyard : XX   Medicine : XX   Phenols: XX   Cheese : XX   Vinous: 3  
Notes: Caramel : XX   Honey : XX   Applesauce: XX   Appleskin : 2 Pear : XX   Tropical FruitsXX  
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2 Juicy: XX   Sourness : 3   Bitterness: XX   Farmy : 2   Complex: XX   Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2 Chewy: XX   Sharp: XX   Chalk : XX   Astringence : 3   Tea tannins : 4   Alcohol : 2
Comments: Rather tannic one that is less aromatic than expected, but finishes very dry indeed.

At GBBF. Yellow with no head. Light apple aroma. Dry and a little tartness.

UPDATED: JAN 11, 2012 From the barrel at Reading Beer Festival, April 2006. Just sold as Bridge Farm Cider - no sweetness descriptor, although it is on the sweeter side of dry, with lots of juicy apple character. However, it is not short of backbone with a firm tannic grip. Quite perfumed aroma. Hazy straw colour. Very pleasant, to me at least, even if others weren’t too impressed.

UPDATED: SEP 5, 2011 Pale green/gold, Apple, spicy alcohol aroma. Sweetish apple juice in mouth.
6-3-6-3-13

From a plastic barrel @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Hazy matt medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, horse blanket, barnyard, leather light smoke. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, apples, dry, light smoke - blue smoke, celery notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110805]
7-2-6-3-12

Gravity Cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2006. Spicy alcohol. Sweet juicy and watery. Little to say other than boring with overly present alcohol.

Bag in a box at Reading BF 06. Pale green/gold with slightly farty apple aroma. Sweetish apple juice in mouth. Reasonalby dry. Good cider.