Moles Black Rat Cider

Brewed by Moles
Style: Cider
Melksham, England

Serve in Bowl, Flute, Lager glass

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Pours a pale colour, taste is sweet and tart and over carbonated, industrial cider, not my kind of thing

Tap @ Kitty’s 14022013. Pours a golden orange, slight white head. Aroma is sour apples. Taste is much of the same, somewhat sweeter. Palate is fairly full. Alright though nothing special.

[cask at the Stockbridge Tap, Edinburgh] I’m not a cider man, by any means, but offered a taste of it, I couldn’t say no. In summary – it tastes like apple juice. I don’t mean that in a belittling way – merely that I really struggled to pick out any fermented flavours, or any alcohol edge. Supremely easy to drink - as a result, if this is a typical cask cider, then count me in [03102012]

500ml bottle, 5.5% - The White Lion, Norwich. Pours a clear and lively golden orange with a short-lived fizzy and disappearing white head. Sweet red apple balanced by a tangy green apple on the nose. Stewed apples with good sweet red apple at the fore. Light to mediumish body, full carbonation with a light apple peel bitterness and a lingering tang.

Bottle. 5.5%. Pale gold and still. Aromas are earthy apple and caramel with green apple and pepper. Quite clean and sharp. Flavours are sweet and sour apple with dry woody notes and pepper. Some vinegar notes with lemon on the finish. Has a warming palate. A decent bottled cider.

Cloudy with no head. Fresh, appley, juicy aroma. Tannic but sweet like a sweetened apple tea. Just enough nuance for a mainstreamish cider.

Draft in takeaway jug. Lovely luminescent orange. Yeasty throughout the aromas and flavors but then mellows into a nice tart and slightly funky astringency. Mild with sweet juicy apple flavor and a good smack of acidity without giving off any acetic or cider vinegar. Tasted from same jug a day later and the flavors came together even more with the sugars subsiding and blending better with the mellow tartness. Smooth and easy to drink.

Bottled (6.5 %). Slightly hazy yellow colour, no head. Aroma is sweetish sour apples along with some slight notes of earthyness. Flavour is more sweet than sour apples and also mild vinegary notes. Rather thin for being 6.5 %.

Cask @ Bon Accord. Hazy yellow colour, lacings on top. Aroma of sour apple. Flavour is sour apple, yeast, some spices.

Tap@RaiDOrSalisbury. Hmmm, I like my cider to be authentic, sourish and yeasty. This is pretty bland and has none of that. Pretty neutral actually and that makes it easy to drink. But that’s it.