La Face Cachée de la Pomme Frimas Ice Cider

Brewed by La Face Cachée de la Pomme
Style: Ice Cider
Hemmingford, Canada

Sampled at Mondial 2006. The body was dark gold. The aroma was sweet with a Granny Smith type aroma. There is a fresh type character here. Both sweet and tart at the same time. The taste is surprisingly sweet. This is also very intense. Very sweet like a Honeycrisp apple. A surprisingly smooth cider for the high abv.

Aroma:pear,sour,alcohol... Appearance:gold.. Fla and honey,apple.good...

Sampled early Dec 05, coutesy of cquiroga. Chris once again shows why its imperative to attend a tasting if he is going to be present. Golden pour, clear - appearance isn’t super attractive by beer standards. By cier standards, it looks perfect. Sweet apple and cider aroma, not cloying, with a touch of something like mole or green pepper. Honey sweet apple flavors, insanely good, with a slightly tart finish. I can’t believe this is 12% - alcohol is well hidden. Super drinkable. If it wasn’t so expensive, this would be my perfect date drink.

Thanks Cquiroga! Pours a very pale (reminds me of piss) gold color with no head or lacing. The aroma is like wonderful delicious apple cidar that has been spiked with a hint of goldschlager (or however the hell you spell it). Very light aroma, not over-powering. Flavor is just like warm apple juice or baked apples. Covers the tongue and lingers in the mouth for quite awhile. Slight alcoholic/warm aftertaste. My first cider!

Pours with a golden body with no head or lacing as expected. The aroma is sour yet bitter with a slight alcohol note and a little apple...smells like overripe apples to me. The flavor is really great...it’s sweet and full of baked apple notes...almost candy like. Smooth and medium bodied.

I can’t thank cquiroga enough for sharing this beauty. Poured clear gold with lovely legs. Aroma was sweet with fresh crisp apples mixed sweet cider. Fresh apples right in your face...BOOM. It tasted like somebody crammed a few bushels of apples into my glass. Some flavor of apple sauce. Sweet and syrupy. Terrfic mouthfeel. Crisp and tart.

Deep golden color. Aroma is apples, a touch of dark fruit and some bell peppers, some wood and earth as well. Very full bodied cider. Very little carbonation. The main flavor is apples of course, but the are hints of nutmeg and cinnamon. Some earthy tones and oak. Very smooth. Touch of alcohol oiliness is evident, but mostly it’s the apples and the smoothness that you notice most here. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is sweet. Big thanks to Chris for sharing this one.

A dark orange cider with no head. The aroma contains notes of apples and some rotten fruit. While the flavor also is dominated by apples - again with a slight note of rotten fruit, but also some acidity. The mouthfeel is smooth, but at the same time sticky.