Samuel Smiths Organic Cider

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Cider
Tadcaster, England

This stuff looks like a pale lager, but is VERY carbonated. I think a bit too carbonated. When I have apple cider I want it to be a little thicker than this. This beer has a very sour apple type smell to it. Where are the spices? The beer just doesn’t cut it when it comes to aroma. A cheap sour apple smell is all I get, and maybe a little sweet but this is so subtle it is not even funny. A little buttery sour apple booze flavor. I know that is a lot but I am tasting all of the flavors. The range of flavors in the taste is more noticeable than the range of smells and what not in the aroma. I am happier with the taste than the aroma. Still, the palate of the beer does not allow the flavors to run smoothly across my tongue. This is comparable to those sparkling B.S. drinks you buy at the store when you don’t want to drink alcohol for New Years. Pungent, but one dimensional, and the flavors weren’t too bad. Decent brew.

Pour is a bright gold with a soda pop fizzy white head. Aroma is sweet with the obligatory apple. Flavor is more like a dry white wine. Very dry with some crisp apple and lots of carbonation. When i saw they added cane sugar to this i was ready for the sweetness and the headache but to my suprise this was not to be. A decent cider.

A carbonated light apple juice. Apple in aroma. Dot lace. Nice to have a bit of, beer or wine replacement over a meal, preferably. Great with hot apple pie.

Nice ripe apple aroma. Slightly sour with a faint hint of apple pie spices. Pretty good.

Pale yellow with a thin white head. Aroma of apples and fruit. Taste of apples, fruit with a dry and tart finish.

This is a mellow, enjoyable cider. It is light and fruity, but not very tart or complex. English ciders are not as sugary as Yankee ciders, and this is no exception. Loved the Victorian label.

Bottle from By The Bottle in Vancouver, WA--Poured a shiny golden body with a small wispy white head. Sweet appley nose with lots of bright yeast and sugar notes. Thick, fizzy, and sweet. Very good.

“hard” tasting at Three Cellars Milwaukee No hint of the alcohol in this cider. Good but it was like drinking a straight cider