Harechurch Hill Medium Cider

Brewed by Harechurch Hill Cider
Style: Cider
Drybrook, England

Barrel at GBBF 2007. A golden cider with no head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of apples with a weak underlying note of acidity. The flavor is dominated by apples on a weak acidic background, leading to a dry woody finish.

Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2   Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 3   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 4   Bread : 2   Hay: 3   Brett : 2   Floral: 3   Wood: 4   Leather: 3   Barnyard : 3   Medicine : 2   Phenols: 3   Cheese : XX   Vinous: 2  
Notes: Caramel : XX   Honey : 2   Applesauce: XX   Appleskin : 2 Pear : XX   Tropical FruitsXX  
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Juicy: 3   Sourness : 3   Bitterness: 1   Farmy : 2   Complex: 4   Length : 3
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 1 Chewy: XX   Sharp: 2   Chalk : XX   Astringence : 2   Tea tannins : 3   Alcohol : 1
Comments: Pretty complex this. Lots of yeast character, sometimes bordering plastic, leather, higher alcohols or phenols, but multi-faceted, woody cider.

A Mes rate: Polypin at GBBF. A bit oily and fatty I thought but just before it was verging on the unpleasant there was a lovely smoky note that really sorted it out. Not dry enough for me to be honest. Oily again in the finish. Not fantastic.

From barrel at GBBF 2007. Some nail polish and apple on aroma. More thin in mouth, some apple flesh, bit of wood smoke. Some rubber and nail varnish on finish.