Carter’s Cider - Medium Dry

Brewed by Carter’s Vineyards
Style: Cider
Colchester, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

From polycask at Great British Beer Festival, day 3, on 4 August 2011. A new producer to me. Seems they are probably making cider as a sideline to their main vineyard business. Rather pale, straw colour. This is made with "eaters" so, not surprisingly, this doesn’t have the tannins or farmyard depth of a cider made with traditional cider apples. There’s a touch of acidity and a fair amount of appley fruit which, probably, is responsible for it seeming rather sweeter than it actually is, as I would have put this on the sweet side of medium. So, although it’s not the most challenging cider, what you do get is a clean, easygoing, pleasant and dangerously quaffable cider.

Plastic barrel@GBBF2011. Pale yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is apples, yeast, som mild notes of wood and cheese. Flavour is apples, mild acidic notes, wood, spruce and some slight vinegary notes.

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

Light unclear light green yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate apple, thin apples, barnyard. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, spicy apples, tart, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat flat. [20110804]