Friels Cider

Brewed by Cool Apple
Style: Cider
Cheltenham, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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568ml bottle from Sainsburys. White wine coloured, white bubbles. Aroma of sour apples, some leather,. Flavour is fairly sour apple. Medium to heavy carbonated. Clean and refreshing indeed, albeit simple and one-dimensional.

Sunny yellow in colour with a soapy fast dissapearing head. Smells of sweet apple juice. Dry and fizzy medium oily body. Average sweetness with a tart citrus. Strong apple taste and a dry finish. Its alright but it tastes like carbonated apple juice. Smooth and refreshing

568ml bottle. Pours light yellow with low carbonation. Aroma is vanilla and some sweet apples underneath. Taste is pretty sweet, apples and vanilla in the finish.

568ml bottle from Sainsburys. Best before 5 February 2012. Pale gold colour. Very soft sparkle. There’s a little bit of fruit here and, unlike many mainstream commercial ciders, it’s not too sticky sweet. But there’s not really anything much to it. Retains an easy drinkability by majoring on blandness. Nothing particularly unpleasant here, just dreadfully dull.

Bottled. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is vinegar, wood, some apple juice and not too much else. Flavour is apple, vinegar, wood and some slight vinous notes. Rather empty in the flavour. Not good.

568ml bottle from my "oh my god has it come to this?" dash through the Sainsburys cider department. Light gold clear colour with very thin collar of bubbles. White wine and apple aroma. Touch of cheesy puke. Odd aromas for a cider. Strangely underpowered cider. In the mouth it is light and strangely devoid of apples. Yes there is some apple flavour on the finish. But again it is light. A medium dry cider I suppose with notes of both sweetness and touch of acidity dryness on the finish. It’s just not very much of a drink and not something I would ever think about drinking again. It’s not terrible (althought the aroma is pretty naff) but just not something I like or would want to drink again.

Bottle 568ml. clear glass.

Clear light yellow color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate apple, sour apple, dry apple, vanilla notes, strange apple aroma not artificial apples and not naturel apple either ! Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, dry. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100917]

Bottle 56,8 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear yellow with a lacing white head. Somewhat strange and artificial apple aroma. Medium body, dry, tart and sulphurous with discreet apple accents. Ends dry. Fairly poor. 170910

Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are apples, sugar and alcohol.

Bottle. Pale gold with a steady carbonation. Aromas are apple and icing sugar with sharp citrus. Flavours are zesty, sour lemon with dry yeast and green apple. Actually tasted fairly similar to some home made cider I produced - which is no great achievement.

Bottle. Very thin looking cider with a very fruity aroma and a quite sweet and mildly dry flavour. Overall a fairly average cider.