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Gwatkin Golden Valley Cider 2.94 18

Gwatkin Golden Valley Cider


Percentile
40
overall
Brewed by Gwatkin Cider
Style: Cider

Hereford, England

bottled
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183/5.02.94/5.06%58.1Flute, Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Medium Sweet Traditional Farmhouse Cider.
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 OleR (2095), Oslo, Norway
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Dec 2, 2009  
Bottle@Cardinal, Stavanger. Pale gold colored, good clarity. Low, fully diminishing offwhite head. Fresh and funky apple aroma with notes of horse stable. Dry and clean apple flavor. Some wooden notes, some farmyard, and both a tart and slightly sweet undertone. Crisp in the mouth. Finishes dry.


 yngwie (4974), Kristiansand, Norway
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 28, 2009  
Bottle, at Cardinal. A clear, golden cider with some off-white bubbles on top. Apples, hints of apple cores, a hint of sulphur and some funk in the aroma. The flavor has some alcohol notes and a little sulphur, or maybe more like a freshly lit matchstik, with apples doing most of the work. Astringent and dry in the mouth. Dry, apple finish. A quite decent cider, nothing more. 090928


 Geokkjer (256), Kristiansand, Norway
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Sep 22, 2009  
Bottle @ Cardinal pub.Pours golden yellow with no head.Still cider.Aroma of spicy,funky brettish farmhouse and apples of course.Kinda dry with the same funky farmhouse apple taste.Medium body with some residual sweetness.Very nice and refreshing.


 Beer2000 (1827), Kristiansand, Norway
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 8, 2009  
500 ml bottle. Clear golden with a diminishing film of white head. Aroma of sour apple and brett (horse blanket/barnyard). Fine, clean flavor of dry apple with a oak edge. Brett’ish aftertaste. Very nice.


 JohnnyJ (1347), Carlsbad, California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/512/20
May 7, 2009  
On cask. Pour is gold slight orange tinge, no head. Aroma is not very interesting. The flavor is nice though, sweet juicy apples, some funky barnyard flavor, slight sourness. Slightly puckery, but still very sweet. Quite refreshing and easy to drink.


 Maria (6286), Thisted, Denmark
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Jan 17, 2008  
Københavnske Øldage 07. Bottle. Papsoe, thanks for sharing. Warm golden with notes of apple, horse blanket and sweat. the flavour has sweetness and notes of horse, sweat, apple and a dry finish. I’m still a cider novice, but I liked this one!


 Rastacouere (5561), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Sep 26, 2007  
Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2   Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 2   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 3   Bread : XX   Hay: XX   Brett : XX   Floral: 1   Wood: 2   Leather: 2   Barnyard : XX   Medicine : 3   Phenols: 4   Cheese : XX   Vinous: 2  
Notes: Caramel : XX   Honey : 2   Applesauce: XX   Appleskin : 3 Pear : XX   Tropical FruitsXX  
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Juicy: 2   Sourness : 3   Bitterness: XX   Farmy : XX   Complex: 1   Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 1 Chewy: XX   Sharp: XX   Chalk : XX   Astringence : 3   Tea tannins : 1   Alcohol : XX
Comments: One of Gwatkin’s smaller efforts I find. Yeasty, but more phenolic than funky and other wise simple cider.


 hughie (3069), Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 7, 2007  
The Golden Valley is a remote and charming corner of Herefordshire that I used to make a point of driving through whenever I was in the Marches. Dark golden cider. Rather evocative ashy, smoky bonfire aroma. Taste less impressive: sweet and rather astringent. Overall not bad, but not as delectable as the valley.



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