Hecks Blakeney Red SV (Draught)

Brewed by Hecks Farmhouse Cider
Style: Perry
Street, England

Serve in Flute, Stem glass

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Polycask @ NWAF 2012, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.

Unclear matt light to medium yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy pear, horse blanket. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, candy, sweet, pear. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20120119]

[Polypin at the Three Crowns, Chippenham] Cloudy, very pale gold. Vinegary aroma - but good quality vinegar. In the mouth it’s one of the smoothest drinks I’ve ever tasted. Sweet eating apples, vanilla and soft creamy pears come through, just kept wanting to taste this over and over again. Amazingly tasty, amazingly more-ish. No sourness, and little dryness, yet somehow manages to avoid being oversweet. Fantastic stuff - restored my interest in perry after a previous bad experience.

From a polypin at the Wellington, Bristol 29/05/10. Sweetish aroma of juicy pears with some lemon. Flavour had more sweet fruit, with a touch of drier skin and spice in the finish. Good.

Cask@Black Door, Helsinki. Pale yellow colour, no head. Aroma is sweet pear along with some honey as well as bluecheese. Also some mild wooden notes. Flavour is pear, honey, some rather sweet spicyness as well as mild syrupy notes.

Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 07-05-09 Pours straw colour gloriously sweet after I’d had a slew of dry or med dry ciders. Nose is a little waxy but the sweetness is there also, little bit shallow on depth of flavour, but really very nice although that sweetness lingers. A6 A4 F7 P3 Ov14 3.4

From cask at Three Judges. Pours hazy yellow with no head. Sweet and fruity apple aroma. No carbonation Sweet apple flavoured. Almost candy like. Vague phenolic note on the back of the nose. But otherwise rather sweet. Light yeasty note in the finish. Quite sticky sweet and almost cloying by the half pint even.

From the barrel Milton Keynes BF A very light lime gren coloured perry with hints of pear in the aroma. The taste is sweet and full of brown sugar. Just a hint of pear. Too sweet and unchallengingly commercial.

On tap at Milton Keynes BF ’08. Pale gold. Lovely sweet pear aroma. Delicious sweet fruity taste. No sourness or dryness. Nice but you wouldn’t want much of it.

From the barrel at Middle Farm, East Sussex. Cloudy, light yellow appearance. Dry perry aroma. Great taste and a smooth finish - sweet but not too sweet with a good aftertaste. A very nice perry.