Small sample at OSLO and Guerde’s tasting on Friday, 5-23-08. Pale yellow color. Sharp, sour apple aroma. Sweet flavor. Very pleasant, good, crisp apple taste.

<i>OSLO and Guerde’s Memorial Weekend Tasting, 5/23/08.</i> Thanks to Skyview! I had been thinking about making a cider with honey crisp apples since they are my favorite, so I’m glad to have had this chance to taste an example of one. Yellow color. Light rubbing alcohol aroma. The taste gets much better. Slight honey and tart apples. Fairly dry finish. Like taking a bite out of a honey crisp apple, but there’s no juice it’s so dry. Nice!

(plastic bottle thanks Skyview!) Pours light gold with some legs sticking to the glass. Aroma is first a smell of rubbing alcohol, none too pleasing. Some smells of apple begin to appear as it warms. Taste is nice and sweet with a crisp apple skin finish. One of the better J Bird’s.

Sampled at OSLO/Guerde’s Memorial Day tasting. Picked up a single liter plastic bottle from the meadery near Cambridge, Minnesota. Pours a clear light golden apple cider with some thin bubbles in the ring. The first cider that even has some spotty lacing. Aroma of both semi-sweet and tart apples, a touch of Chardonnay wine, some honey and a hint of allspice. Taste is slightly tangy, sweet with some spritzy cider character. Finish is semi-sweet, crisp apple aftertaste without any alcohol bite or finish.