3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A Mes rate: barrel at GBBF.
Slightly hazy gold colour. Sweet and funky on the nose with some sharp spicy apples. Clear but pleasant alcohol too. Massive white rum notes in the flavour, surely this has been in a cask of some sort although it doesn’t say. Immensely dry lambic like sourness. Loooooong rum finish. Easy to drink considering the abv is almost 8% and the dryness just makes me want more and more of it. No wonder cider heads are nutters.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From cask. Pours almost clear and golden yellow with no head. Aroma is acidic and apple fruity. Acidic, slight spiced and apple fruity. Ends dry and a bit flat.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
GBBF2008. Yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is glue, some nectar, rotten apples and quite stingy. Flavour is glue, apples, some alcohol and overall quite sweetish sour. Very dry palate.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Barrel GBBF 2005:
Very pale appearance. Smells like zoo and piss in an interesting combination. Vinegar and sourness all over in flavour. Some notes of apple skin. Palate is quite sour.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From the barrel at GBBF, August 2005. rather anaemic looking pale straw colour. A bit short on aroma. Quite dry with some spirity/petrolly flavours. As tiggmtl says, there’s definite white wine character here. Not much residual fruit. Rather austere.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sharp, strong, dry, bitter appleskins in the aroma. Hazy yellow body is still. Dry, boozy bitter and farmy flavours go together well. Dry wine-like body. Barrel sampled at GBBF 2005.
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