Cassels Dabinett Cider

Brewed by Cassels Cider
Style: Cider
Great Shefford, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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UPDATED: DEC 17, 2006 A single varietal cider made with a very traditional English cider apple variety. I can normally appreciate the merits of hard cider, but struggled with this one. Searingly dry, no real fruit character apparent. Sour and rather sulphurous. Is it mean to taste like this. If so, I’m not impressed. Gravity, Cambridge Beer Festival. (4/2/4/2/8) RE-RATE. April 2006. Still searingly dry. Still has an eggy whiff in the aroma. Woody and a bit austere. I scored it higher this time but I’m not sure whethere I was just being particularly niggardly on the previous occasion. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and retian the higher mark.

Box@Bishops Stortford Beer Festival (7.1%). Yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is sweet apples, some dry wooden notes as well as mild cheesyness. Flavour is quite much the same. Sweetish sour and not that dry palate.

Cask (handpump)@The Oakdale Arms, North London. Quite dry, with some alcohol in the finish. Dry appleskin flavours, crisp, acidic, and quite refreshing, given the high alcohol.