3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2009
Fruity aroma. Golden coloured fruity and a little hazy in appearance with a crisp and dry finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cloudy gold with lingering white edges. Funky sour apple aroma. Sweet yet quite dry. Refreshing cider.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Gravity. Golden coloured. Natural apple aroma and flavour. Pleasant dry finish. A nice cider.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Barrel, GBBF 2004. Apple gold colour, no head and minimal head. Spirity apple with a touch of sweetness in the nose, gentle apple and alcohol in the mouth and a thin sweetness in the finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hardly in the heart of cider country, this farm originally provided fruit to Taunton Cider Company, but struck out on its own in 1983. SilkTork usually prefers sweeter ciders, whilst I generally favour a drier style. However, this is a very nice cider. although on the dry side of sweet. Clear straw colour, with some authentic pong on the nose. Clean, crisp and fruity on the palate, with a fair amount of backbone. Rather nice. From the barrel at GBBF 2004.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Harbury Beer Festival ’04. Pale and flat. Juicy apple flavours in a slightly sweet background. Nasal peel aromas, sweet without being sickly.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Gravity@GBBF. Sweet and flat, slightly cheesy and funky as most English farmhouse ciders are, some cheap white wine in the flavour, not good.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Gravity Great British Beer Festival 2004. Again, thanks to Silk Tork for letting me sample another fine cider. Possibly the first sweet cider I have had, it lacks the harsh dryness and sulphuric aromas a dry cider has, then again if I want something dry I would prefer a lambic. This was more like apple juice and was actually very nice.
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