2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle, 500ml from M&S. Yellow colour, white bubbles. Nose of sweet apple. Flavour is sweet apple, wood. Highly carbonated. Unfortunately, another run-off-the-mill cider.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Pours bright gold with medium carbonation. Aroma is slightly cheesy, sharp apples. Taste is apple juice to start with a sharp, dry finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle from MS Bratislava. Golden color with minimal white head. Quite strong carbonation. Aroma of apples, honey, barnyard. Taste, sweet apples, yeast, caramel, hints of wood. Bittersweet finish. Watery cider.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark clear yellow with very fast dissapeaing fizzy white head. Strong sour smell of apples. Medium Oily fizzy body. Sweet apple start and a sour dry finish with a lingering sweetness. Not the best cider I’ve had as it seems a little weak and watery.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle (ChrisO’s post-GBBF2011, Thursday)
Very fresh fruity aroma, packed full of apples. Weakish taste - some apple skins. Very simple and watery. Pleasant, but not exciting in any way.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
2009 bottle from M&S in Tallinn. Golden body (like a lager beer). Slightly medicinal apple aroma. Moderately dry taste with a woody finish. Feels a bit too neutral, or should I say - needs some more character.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(500ml bottle) Nice enuff; but not rustic or pungent like i like ciders. Sweet tang -chewey apple acidity . Ok ,if subdued’
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Golden with low carbonation. Aromas are earthy stewed apple with woody notes. Hints of toffee apple with yeast and pepper. Flavours are sweet apple with woody, notes. Yeasty with pear and toffee. OK.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle from M&S St Pancras. OK cider aroma, touch of rich apple, slightly sweeter than ciders I’ve had recently. Its very drinkable but lacks the character of some of the others I have had recently. Fruit led cider. Decent, would have it again, but maybe not over more interesting beers/ciders. But if I’m at a train station and someone offered me a bottle, I;d take it.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium orange color with a large, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, overriped old apples, light barnyard, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, artificial. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is both flat and lively ! [20100101]
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Golden in colour with decent carbonation. Aroma of wood, the barnyard and sweetish apples. Flavour was more one dimensional: sweet, caramel and apple pulp with a medium dry finish. Forgettable.
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