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Brewed by Border Orchards
Style: Cider
Ross-on-Wye, England

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RATINGS: 4   MEAN: 2.75/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.75   EST. CALORIES: 195   ABV: 6.5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Draught only.
A still, dry, single varietal cider made from Ashton Bitter apples.


3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Leighton (14836) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - SEP 19, 2011
Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 3. Pours a slight hazy yellow with a few bubbles. Funky nose with licks of corn and butter along with faintly sweet apples. Light sweet flavor, faint booze, mild apples. A little meaty. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Faint warming finish, light funk, light sugar, dry must, faint apples. Meh.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
fonefan (39783) - VestJylland, DENMARK - SEP 5, 2011

Polycask @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Hazy medium yellow yellow colour with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, ripped sweet apples, sulfur, light barnyard. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110804]

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
chriso (7513) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - SEP 2, 2011
From polycask at Great British Beer Festival, day 3, on 4 August 2011. A producer I know next to nothing about. Murky yellow colour. Ashton Bitter is a "bittersweet" cider apple variety raised at Long Ashton Research Centre in 1947. Here it has produced a fairly dry cider with a good whack of tannin of the palate but not a lot of fruity character and not much farmyard funk. This leaves it feeling a little austere. Also quite sulphurous in the aroma. OK but didn’t quite hit the spot for me. Perhaps it’s just an apple variety that is better used in a blend than in a single varietal.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
oh6gdx (23262) - Vasa, FINLAND - AUG 15, 2011
Cask@GBBF2011 (6.7%). Hazy yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is apples, some mild rotten vegetables, mild yeasty and some earthy notes. Flavour is apples, some spicves, vegetables and quite harsh.


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