Butford Farm Perry - Dry (Draught)

Brewed by Butford Farm Cider
Style: Perry
Hereford, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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From the barrel at GBBF, day 3 on 3 August 2006. The ABV for this seems to be all over the place as it was 5.0% on this occasion. Hazy yellow colour. Smooth, slightly peachy and easy-drinking. Pleasant enough but doesn’t really have sufficient depth of succulent fruit to charm or enough tannic grip to challenge. I wonder whether the lower ABV suggests a rather poor year for the pears with relatively low sugar and extract rates.

Plastic cask, 6.2% at GBBF08. Acidic aroma, a little vinegar. Spreewalder Gurken flavour. Not bad. Milky very pale yelllow colour.

Cask at troon beer fest 07... Hazy light yellow ... light pear little sharp ... sharp sharp and again some pear definitly tart inlinger.

Barrel@GBBF06’. Quite nice. Light sweetness to start but quickly dries out with a dry, juicy slightly acidic finish. Quite a decent perry.

Barrel at GBBF 2006. Perry/pear vinegar aroma. Unexciting perry with some sourness. Bit of rubber. Fine, but not too exciting.

Barrel – GBBF. A hazy dark lime green coloured perry. The aroma has the obvious pear but also maybe a touch of ginger. The taste is fairly sweet with pear skins and some tannin notes. Drinakble.

Polypin at Merton Beer Festival Sat 18th Feb. This really was an excellent Perry it was actually a medium at 4% rather than dry as I noted from the cask label. Fantastic to have a Perry at this strength rather than coming in at 6, 7 or 8%. Wonderfully flavoursome, loads of pear leaping out at you, a very pale lemon colour makes you just want to keep gulping, great!

Polypin at Merton Beer Festival, Oxon.
Pale lemon, opaqe, no head. Bags and bags of favour in this dry but also fruity sweet fermented fruit concoction. Tastes of fresh pearskins with acidic boiled sweet notes. Stunning.