Greggs Pit Thorn Perry

Brewed by Greggs Pit Cider & Perry
Style: Perry
Ledbury, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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[3196-20100731] Cask. Fragrant rose smoked aroma. Clear, light white body with a small quick foamy white head. Smoked pear barrels flavour. Medium body. Good but an odd smokey characteristic.
(90% certainty my notes are for the Thorn 6% perry, not the Flakey Bark perry.)
(Vintage 2009 @ Middle Farm, Lewes, England)

From a plastic barrel at GBBF 08. Clear pale gold. Bit of cheese on aroma. Some tannin in there, rather good pear fruit. Bit of acidity. That’s alright actually, bit of tannin coats the gums. Fruit is quite syrupy and intense in fact.

Swan and Rushes, Leicester. Cloudy orange and still. Aromas are sweet and sour pear juice with perfume - has hints of lavender. Flavours are mellow pear with zesty, sour lemon. Very dry and woody towards the finish. Some hints of bitter liquorice. Pretty good.

From the barrel at GBBF, August 2005. Very pale, soft colour. Quite dry, highly attenuated and flinty, but not full of flavour. The mouthfeel is fairly thin and the overall feel is a touch austere. Farmhouse perries are often distinguishable from ciders in that they are softer and more fruity. This tends more towards a cider feel.

Gravity. Very pale coloured. Not very flavourfull. Slightly thin and pretty boring.