Etienne Dupont Cidre Triple

Brewed by Domaine Familial Louis Dupont
Style: Cider
Victot-Pontfol, France

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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Bottle @ home. Random mini cider tasting. Clear copper orange appearance with no head. Tangy, dry apple, a bit spicy, a touch musty, rich apple aroma. Burnt apple, somewhat toasty, a little woody, fairly bitter flavor with a dry, bitter finish. I think it’s the roasty darkness of this one that I really didn’t enjoy.

Bottle 2011 ... Clear golden orange pour had some carbonation on pour but settled fast with a thin ring of white head .... aroma of red apples, bitter and dry .... taste is super dry mouthfeel wise, apple juices, bitter red apples, some taste of skins leading to a dry bitter finish ... abv is very well hidden for 10% .... decent but nothing spectacular ... maybe the apples from Pays d’Auge that fell off the tree?

Bottle at cider tasting. Orange pour with white head. Acetic apple, very dry flavor. Eh not very good. 2.6

Cask at Gingerman NYC, nice aroma, sweeter flavor, touch of honey and nut and apple tones.4.1

Pours hazy dark golden color with white head. Musty apple aroma. Semi sweet apple flavor with a musty cellar tase. Light to medium body with effevescent carbonation and a dry finish. Not as good as their regular cider.

375ml Bottle: Aroma of apple, slight oak, slight vinegar, and light band-aid. Poured amber/copper in color with a huge, foamy, loose, fizzy tan head that greatly diminished and tightened up. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Full of tiny, small, and massive particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of apple, band-aid, acetone, slight vinegar, and slight oak. Light body. Thin, tingly texture. Lively carbonation. Apple, band-aid, acetone finish is light to medium sweet and lightly dry. 10%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

On tap. Poured a clear deep gold with no head whatsoever. Aroma was full of bitter apples with a bit of a crab apple note and a bit of a sweet backbone. Flavor started a little sweeter with apples but had that same bitter crab apple finish. A bit sticky on the tongue.

4oz pour at Max’s Rare and Obscure Beer Week Part 4. Pours a bright orange with zero head. Big, fruity nose, apples, a little caramel, honey. Flavor is similar, some butterscotch, honey, apples, caramel, sweet, lightly tart, some candy. Full bodied, buttery finish. Very enjoyable.

On draft at Pizza Paradiso Dupont Circle - Washington, DC. Aroma was mild and subtle, but noticeable in aged apple juice and minerals. Flavors were solid too, but again, somehow restrained. Where this beer really took hold was in the palate, with a complex show. First, a sweet and sour tangy hit right up front, followed by tight, perfusive intense explosion of super-fine tiny bubbles, and then a strong, chalk-like mineral drying sensation that takes it out to the finish. Beautiful build.

Aroma of champagne. Lots of alcohol up front, but not so much that there’s a burn. The cider comes through, though there is an initial sweetness and funkiness present. Leads to a cidery aftertaste. Tasty in moderation; kinda odd, yet interesting. Very low carbonation with no head (on draft).

Gusher. Cork last seen speeding down Queens Boulevard. 50-9-09/10112 bottling purchased at New Beer. Generic wine glass. Empty stomach. Smooth second pour(first was all unearthed dregs) results in a clear, dark amber body topped with a half inch of lumpy(though fleeting), cream-colored foam. Body remains very active. Smell isn’t great. Apple cores, varnish, maybe a little vinegar. Boozy. Taste is so dry, thin, & overall empty. Bitter, one dimensional apples. Lacquered wood. Harsh, harsh alcohol through & through. If this was 5%, it might be somewhat palatable. Is this bottle okay? Plenty carbonated. This stuff gives me a headache.