3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A hazy, greenish yellow coloured sparkling cider. a light woody nose, a bit yeasty, plus a slightly sour appley smell. Dry and sour taste, a little yeasty again, but a mouth puckering sour apple flavour that lasts to the finish. (Cask - The Ouse Amateur Sailing Club, King’s Lynn, Norfolk).
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 1 Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 3 Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 3
Yeast : 3 Bread : 3 Hay: XX Brett : XX Floral: 1 Wood: 3 Leather: XX Barnyard : 2 Medicine : XX Phenols: XX Cheese : XX Vinous: 3
Notes:
Caramel : XX Honey : XX Applesauce: XX Appleskin : 3 Pear : XX Tropical FruitsXX
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2 Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2 Juicy: 2 Sourness : 3 Bitterness: XX Farmy : 3 Complex: XX Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2 Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 1 Chewy: 1 Sharp: 3 Chalk : XX Astringence : 3 Tea tannins : 3 Alcohol : 2
Comments: Sharp, strong, barnyardy. A big name and a fat product, but not the most balanced.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
[From a barrel at GBBF 2005] A hazy pale yellow beer with no head. Both the aroma and flavor are sweet apply. Nothing special.
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Barrel GBBF 2005:
An ordinary cider. Some dryness, no really sweetness, nor sourness. Easy to drink and refreshing.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
From the barrel at GBBF, August 2005. Big funky farmyard aroma, with some eggy sulphur in evidence. That suggests something very traditional in style, but its much softer on the palate, with some residual sweetness. Could do with a bit more backbone. As this is a Norfolk cider, I suspect extensive use of dessert apples and extended barrel age which has mellowed it out just a touch too much for my taste.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Minty, herbal, woody, apple aroma with a strong barnyard character. Hazy deep golden body. Very dry tannic quality to the somewhat astringent farmhouse flavour with suggestions of grapefruit, apple and a woody bitterness. Interesting though I’m not sure I’d want to drink a full glass of this. Sampled from the barrel at GBBF 2005.
|
