Olivers Herefordshire Dry Perry

Brewed by Olivers Cider
Style: Perry
Ocle Pychard, England

Shared by Mr. watermelon Berliner Weisse himself, Dickinsonbeer. More homebrew, less suspect, clear bottle imports Paul. :P No one really fought for any ciders/perrys that night, but just seeing this stuff for the first time locally a week before at the quite overpriced Bierkraft, I wasn’t going to miss it now. BCTC09. A hearty, selfish pour into my baby Duvel glass. Filtered, faintly golden, diluted yellow still pour. Smell is of wood pulp, grass, soft pear & sharper white grape juice. No must, very clean. Actual taste was a letdown. Just a little watered down apple juice & sweeter pear skins to start, but from there, & a whole lot of wood, yeast, & mulch. A touch buttery. So very dry, the finish delivered nothing. Overall, it barely showed. I revisited the bottle Sunday morning, but found its neighbors much more hospitable. Sad panda. :(

Bottle at BCTC. Pours a pale clear straw yellow, still, without any head. Starts off fine, smelling of soft ripe pears, but nothing overly big, and some faint wood notes. Then, sadly, it just gets downright ugly. What began as a nice smelling nearly enticing aroma turns to a near vomit inducing terror in the mouth. Maybe something had gone off in this bottle, but this was downright undrinkable and went from glass, to mouth, to being spewed out onto the ground in a matter of seconds.

Extremely beautiful deep light strawgolden body with a very light green shine; Very beautiful nose too, super dense but still very light and fine, super balanced composition of ripe perry meat, fresh warm wet oak, warm vanilla, dry brettanomyces and a very light acetic back; Very soft oily textured body, almost to much, very little quite sharp very small bubbled carbonation, yeasty dry lightly harsh, not as fine as the nose; It moves into a long finish that has tons of aromas, again not as fine and not as balanced as the nose, quite a lots of fresh oak tannins. It starts out fantastic with a balanced that is rare, the rest of this Perry could learn a little from its nose. Very drinkable though! Thanks, Fin!!