Rhyne Cyder

Formerly brewed at Rhyne Cyder
Style: Cider
Sonoma, California USA

Courtesy fo artusory

Bottle: The aroma is sweet dusty apple cider with a touch of tart apple as well. It pours a transparent gold with a touch of haze and a large bubbled white head that quickly fades to a ring. The flavor starts with sweet apple cider. It finishes with a light green apple tartness.

Thanks Blake. Hazed golden color with a small ring of white bubbles. Full aromas with pears, light apple, with a whiff of acid and metal. Thin flavors of apple and pear with a mild backdrop of weed like flower. A touch too acidic and thin for me.

Pre-GTMW tasting @ 1FastSTi’s place. Hazy peach with white head. The aroma is cheesey, horsey, apple, cobwebs and basement. The flavor is apple juice, lemon, bread, slightly tart. Medium body with sparkling carbonation. Funky and beautiful.

Fizzy big-bubbled off-white head. Hazy light gold. Uh… appley. Odd light brownies. Sweet, but good. Very fizzy body. Dry apple. Seemingly well-balanced. Some sweet. Pretty good.

Hazy and pale pear colored with a few saliva concentrations on the head. Pommes of gala meet pink ladies and saffron perfume, along with lilac petals and multiflora rose. Light floral apple flavoring with tangy carbonation to spruce up and catapult the baseline traits. Perfumey, sweet gala apples interact with light stinging fruit, melding into a nectar pair trait. Fizzy, light-to-medium bodied and an easily quaffed cyder. Thanks for sharing, 1FastSTi!

I traded marcus for this. The cider pours to a hazy apple/pear juice body. Cola head. The aroma is sweet pears and apples. Nicely blended. The flavor is sweet apples, pears, smooth balanced spices. Champagne dryness atop the sweet fruits.

Pre-Great Taste sampling at 1FastSti’s house


Thanks go to Blake for opening this towards the end of the night. It was a nice change of pace and suprisingly good. Since it is no longer made and therefore impossible to have again, I wish I wold have gotten more. If all ciders were this good I might just have to change my style preference.

Aroma / Appearance - There’s no suprise here. The nose was mostly apples (honey crisp was the closest I could get to a specific type). Along with this there were hints of pears and green apples (as in not quite ripe). The body was a cloudy hazy golden color with lively carbonation and a huge head which soon faded down into a thin covering.

Flavor / Palate - The taste was a mixture of tart apples (granny smith and honey crisp) and pears. Very sweet and easy to drink, the 6.8% ABV is well masked. In fact I could finish a whole bottle of this by myself. Among the best beers I have ever tasted, not just the best cider. Someone needs to convince them to make this again.

Pear colored pour lots of aggressive carbonation white head. Apple aroma, touches of cinamon stick & light alcohol. Palate is well carbonated, good coating. Flavor is extremly well balanced sweet apple skins and a touch of overripe apples, some light spices and a very nice sweetness. A great cider. Thanks to Blake for sharing.