Merridale Traditional Cider

Brewed by Merridale Estate Cidery
Style: Cider
Cobble Hill, Canada

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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(341ml bottle) Pours a lightly carbonated, deep golden body. The nose is dry and mildly medicinal. I enjoy the dry, fizzy, sour flavour as there is really no sweetness to this cider. Abvoe average.

Bottle @ [ Tasting by fiulijn ].

Clear medium yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apples, tart apple, apple skin, apple peel, citrus notes. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, apple skin, tart apples, medium dry. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat. [20110925]

Plastic bottle 34,1 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Hazy pale yellow with a white head. Sweetish apple aroma. Light body, very dry apple notes and plenty of sulphur. Extreme carbonation. Poor. 020911

Plastic bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a small white head. Aroma of apples and apple peel. Fruity flavour of apples and apple peel. Fruity finish of apples.

34.1 cL plastic bottle. Pours clear and yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, citrusy and crisp apple. Citric, carbonated, apple and fruity finish. Ends dry and citric finish.

Bottle at Alex’s Place, Malmø. Clear yellow - white head. Apples, light sourness, acid, dryness, tartness, very simple - a bit boring.

Plastic bottle, from Point Grey, Vancouver
Cloudy blond color, with a thin collar of foam. The aroma is nice, with apples and hazelnuts. Very dry mouthfeel, with mild fruity flavor, some astringency from the apple skins. With character. No flaws, pleasant.

Bottled. A golden cider with a yellowish head. The aroma is dominated by apples. The flavor is sweet and is dominated by apples, leading to a lightly tart finish.

Another 1L plastic bottle twist-off I brought back from Victoria last month. Deep honey gold, fine carbonation. Brown over-ripe apple aroma, with just hints of spice. There is an odd chemical edge to the aroma too. A previous rater pegged it as acetone, but I respectfully disagree. There is something odd here though. Flavour is dried apple (i.e. not much juicy sweetness) with a quite dry finish with a bitter, medicinal edge, like biting into the apple seeds. Interesting.

Bottle courtesy of mgermani. Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells like apple juice, acetone, some light booziness, spice. Tastes tarte with some dry apple hints and a light spicy finish.

Pours a clear golden yellow with a light ring of foam. Lovely sweet apple aroma. Sweet, generically pleasant apple cider taste - very drinkable, sweet and not too dry. Good carbonation. Probably one of the most quaffable ciders I’ve had yet.