Grays Medium Cider

Brewed by Grays Farm Cider
Style: Cider
Exeter, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

A Sim rate (plastic barrel at Ye Old Cider Bar): Alcoholic sharp red apple aroma. Nice sweet & sour flavour with red apple peel & brown sugar. Tart in good measure and sweetness that follows through. Very good.

From a bag in the box at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 23/08/10. Deep gold with a slight haze. The JDW "best of the west" cider festival tasting notes are unclear whether this was the dry or medium version, but it certainly tasted like the latter to me. Easy drinking with plenty of fresh apple juice, a slight mineral edge and tart finish. Very drinkable.

From the barrel at GBBF, August 2005. Hazy golden colour. A fresh and fruity, well tempered and easygoing cider, with the emphasis on apples rather than farmyard. Very pleasant but a bit short of oomph. Doesn’t really kick arse.

Cask GBBF 2005 Quite dry and actually bitter too. Normally I can’t taste bitterness in ciders, but this is an interesting exception.

From the barrel - GBBF 2005. Different from the Medium dry. A hazy green - gold coloured cider with a good dry juicy apply fruit aroma. The taste is fresh and juicy apples with lots of tasty apple flesh. Good one.