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cider oh good ale oh good ale phil s beer blog skip to content about this blog bitter bottled beers cider mild porter and stout perry cider biddenden s cider 6 this is the good stuff a pale colour and one of those flavours that just keep on developing like a good white wine sweet flowery sharp and beautifully balanced doesn t strip your teeth with acid doesn t dry your tongue with apple peel bitterness and doesn t particularly taste of apples cider 8 not quite that good not that complex but very nice indeed with that kind of strength the alcohol is almost bound to be something you can taste in its own right in this one there s a sort of alcoholic tartness that seems to float above the other elements of the flavour broadoak moonshine still pale green fruity flowery 7 5 dangerously drinkable not quite up there with the 6 biddenden s but definitely in the same league really very nice indeed butford s cider presumably butford s dry cider specifically very very sour i have actually drunk vinegar in my time and this reminded me of it 6 7 a b v but i couldn t see myself getting through a pint anyway cheddar valley cider red this one is actually red and opaque with it like früli a full appley flavour not very complex or interesting but quite drinkable and 6 red chucklehead cider deep yellow intense apple flavour with apple peel bitterness coming up behind and masking the 7 alcohol not one of the greats but good stuff double vision cider still clear and slightly sweet one of the more flowery delicate ciders very drinkable although it s 7 4 gwatkin s norman cider it didn t occur to me while i was drinking this i just thought it was named after someone called norman like the teenage fanclub song but perhaps this is gwatkin s stab at a cidre normande if so they re way out but i wouldn t hold that against it there s a real spoonful of vinegar sharpness on the first mouthful but after that the flavour just builds and builds for a cider it s a deep rich brown and the density of the flavour matches the colour it s 7 5 but like most good ciders doesn t taste of alcohol so take it slowly gwynt y ddraig dog dancer there are ciders like the biddenden s that you could happily take home to meet your partner even if she doesn t like cider see see they don t all taste like something eddie grundy s brewed in an old oil drum then there are ciders for confirmed cider drinkers this one tastes exactly like something eddie grundy s brewed in an old oil drum although not in a bad way in other words it tastes like apple juice that s been allowed to ferment and very nice it is too if you like cider black dragon this on the other hand is medium sweet apple flavoured and thoroughly user friendly apart from the a b v at 7 2 this sits squarely in the dangerously drinkable bracket highly more ish the sweetness stops it being really thirst quenching but at the same time keeps you going back for more you ll drink it you ll like it you ll fall over update on my second encounter this struck me as a crossover between the light and flowery biddenden s style of cider and the less refined fermented apples style a difficult trick to pull off one which i felt they did very successfully my notes say fdfd which i think is short for fandabbydozy heck s medium cider at first sight this seemed to be a deep pinkish red colour like früli holding it up to daylight showed that it s actually a deep reddish brown the flavour matches it s big and fruity with a slab of mixed apple peel and alcohol bitterness bringing up the rear one of those flavours that seem to develop and expand as you get further down the glass hunt s medium cider in many ways this was reminiscent of a particularly full flavoured bitter particularly in the way it bounces round your mouth setting off flavour alarms sour sour dear god that s sour fruity bitter sour again i didn t need that tooth enamel did i and some more bitterness and actually that s quite nice the effects are more extreme though and the alcohol content s about double cider it s beer with atttitude newton s medium cider 6 perhaps my judgment on the biddenden s or rather on anything that s not biddenden s was a bit hasty perhaps there are two really great styles of cider like cheese you start out with cheddar and work your way out to wensleydale and stilton and camembert none of which ring the same cheese bell as cheddar subtlety and distinctiveness are great but sometimes a good cheddar is what you want something that rings the cheese bell good and hard newton s medium is the mature cheddar to biddenden s camembert it tastes of apples it s got the acid to strip your teeth and the apple peel bitterness to dry your tongue and it doesn t hide the 6 alcohol content and it s great medium cider 7 most of the same comments apply but with an emphasis on the sour this one had that extreme is this actually cider or just vinegar acidity that mars some ciders and perries but it somehow made it work ralph s cider encountered at the stockport beer and cider festival 2008 a bit like newton s certainly at the newton s end of things rather than the biddenden s great big bold appley flavour quite sweet but not overpoweringly so generally well balanced which is more than it ll leave you ho ho it s 8 2 very nice indeed ross on wye cider rather unremarkable at 6 this is practically a session cider that is you could reasonably drink more than one pint and the flavour is similarly reined in nothing much more to say about it than that it tastes of fermented apples which is what you want after all sandford orchards scrumpy brown and cloudy with a definite scrumpy character a real full on taste sweet and sour and apple peel bitterness all at the same time surprisingly well balanced though the different flavours are all distinct but they do work together very nice weston s organic cider i ve had some very ordinary stuff from weston s back when they were more or less the only real cider makers who exported to the rest of the country so i ordered this with some misgivings they were rapidly dispelled this is one of the best ciders i ve ever tasted i felt quite privileged to be drinking it it s got the bold definite flavour of the newton s but without the rough edges it somehow comes across as subtle and complex while tasting of nothing other than cider 7 3 but almost worth ordering a pint anyway winkleigh sam s cider another 6 er perfectly likeable sweetness at the start a big mouth filling sharpness and that bitter apple peel finish but not terribly special sorry sam wiscombe suicider the first time i had this it was very very dry 8 alcohol hidden in a barrel of vinegar the second time it was more of a straight heavy apple flavour with a bitter edge to it didn t taste 8 either time which is an achievement of sorts not great share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 2 comments djmikebrown 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