2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: JAN 3, 2012 By this time Silk Tork was getting increasingly desperate at the lack of beer scoops and moved on to cider as a last resort. Now, I can drink rough cider with the best of ’em, and, in the days of my youth in Somerset, frequently did. In fact, the first drinking establishment I ever visited was a cider house, selling nothing else. However, I have never been comfortable with sweet scrumpy as it has to be artificially sweetened. This one managed to taste simultaneously syrupy and vinegary. I can’t say I enjoyed it much. But at least it gave me my first cider rating on Ratebeer. Battersea Beer Festival.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity @ Southampton Arms, Tufnell Park NW5. Pours a hazy pale orange color with no head. Has a sweetish fruity apple aroma. Sweetish fruity smooth apple flavor. Has a sweetish fruity apple finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught 20l bag (St. Urho’s, Helsinki) as ’prime farmhouse cider’
Deep amber, no head. Sweet fruity apple aroma - lots of apple, some caramel. Also dry woody sourness too. Taste is a great estery kick - some wood resins and glues, but not actually gluey. Wonderfully sweet and gob-smackingly sharp too. Brilliant scrumpy.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Plastic can, Criterion, Leicester. Hazy orange, gold. Aromas are earthy apple with some sulphur. Quite peppery. Flavours are sweet apple juice with earthy and barnyard notes. Some light citrus. An easy drinking sweet cider.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Polypin Scottish Real Ale festival 2009 ... hazy amber ... light apple nose ...medium sweet appple juicy and easy ...
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Battersea Beer Festival, 12th Feb 2009, with Mes. Clear gold. Run of the mill sweet cider alas.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: FEB 16, 2009 A Mes rate: plastic barrel at Battersea Beer Festival
Yellow brown colour. Very sweet and juicy all round. Full on artificially sweet apple juice with a very sugary finish. Dries out nicely thankfully. Nothing too special.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at CAMRA cider bar, Bromham Mill, Bedfordshire. Mid gold. Aroma is sweet with an oddly spicy edge. Very sweet taste: it’s like you’ve been eating Mary Poppins’ spoonful of sugar. Cloying.
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