For those of you who follow me on Facebook and Twitter (which I'm pretty sure will be all of you) you'll know that every Sunday evening for the last 9 months I've been doing "Sunday Cider" where I've been trying a different cider every week. Not because I know anything about cider, in fact for the exact opposite reason - I knew nothing about the stuff and wanted to find out about it. Unfortunately after 9 months you start to forget what you've already drank and what you haven't so I decided to take a few people's advice and collect all of them in one place here on the old blog. In hind sight I wish I had given them scores or star ratings or something, just to make it a bit more interesting but hay-ho, too late now. There's also a few where I didn't seem to record an opinion on them. Sorry. I suppose I can do them again and be a bit more verbose ;o)
Anyway, here's the list. By the way remind me to NEVER try and do a table on Blogger again. Holy crap it took for ever!
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| Date | Cider | Where From | Donated By | Opinion | Best Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28/3/11 | Thatcher's Gold | N/A | N/A | Nicely balanced but flavour slightly medicinal |
N/A |
| 3/4/11 | Aspall's Classic Suffolk Cyder |
Suffolk | N/A | Nice and sharp. Not as sticky as Thatcher's Gold | It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Cider that saves the world! (Referring to it being organic) |
| 11/4/11 | Henry Westons Oak Aged Herefordshire Cider | Herefordshire | N/A | Too acidic. | A bit too close to being vinegar. Which is never a good thing. |
| 24/4/11 | Kopparberg Pear Cider | Sweden? | N/A | Vile | That is truly vile. It's making my tongue go numb. |
| 8/5/11 | Savana Dry | South Africa | N/A | Nice. Not as dry as expected. With hindsight this was one of my favourites. | N/A |
| 15/5/11 | Longueville Cidre de Recoltant | France | N/A | Not bad. Too fizzy. French. | It does taste kinda, well, French. Not sure how but it does. |
| 5/6/11 | Sheppy's Vintage Reserve | N/A | N/A | Very bitter and too gassy. | I've got to stop going for the posh labels. |
| 12/6/11 | Stella Cidre | Belgium | N/A | Very average. Not much taste. | I'd like to point out that it's selling point is that it's made from hand picked apples. Just a little bit rubbish there Mr.Artois (Missed my chance to call him Ian Artois there - dammit) |
| 26/6/11 | Thatcher's Katy | N/A | N/A | Well balanced. Pleasant after taste. I obviously liked this one | Not too sweet, not too dry. It's like the mother bear of ciders. |
| 3/7/11 | Knight's Premium Reserve | N/A | My old Payroll 1 buddies. | Sweet, crisp and green apple-y. Very nice. | N/A |
| 10/7/11 | Gaymer's Somerset | Somerset | My old Payroll 1 buddies. | My only comment was "Spritely" I guess that means it was nice! | N/A |
| 17/7/11 | Westons Stowford Press Export | Stowford? | My old Payroll 1 buddies. | "OK but a bit bitter" was my only comment on this one. | N/A |
| 24/7/11 | Henry Weston's Medium Dry | N/A | My old Payroll 1 buddies. | No idea. I said I was liking it... | N/A |
| 7/8/11 | Aspall's Draught | N/A | My old Payroll 1 buddies. | Crisp. | N/A |
| 14/8/11 | Thatcher's Green Goblin | N/A | N/A | Bitter after taste. | N/A |
| 21/8/11 | Co-Op's Tillington Hills | Tillington | N/A | Very authentic. | That's some proper cider that is. That's like something you'd pick up in Devon. Like. |
| 4/9/11 | Scrumpy Dog | N/A | N/A | Not nice. | Smells of pear but tastes of...vinegar. |
| 18/9/11 | Henney's England's Pride | N/A | N/A | A little bitter but not unpleasant. | N/A |
| 25/9/11 | Tesco's Oak Matured Still CIder | N/A | N/A | Tasted nice but the lack of fizz was off-putting. | And yeas, I know I should have been expecting that as it's called still cider... (Referring to the lack of bubbles) |
| 2/10/11 | Cowmire Hall Ancient Orchard Cider | Cumbria? | Katy and Paul Warburton | Sweet and woody. | N/A |
| 9/10/11 | Sheppy's Dabinett Apple | N/A | N/A | Very, very bitter. | Urgh! That's not just the bitterest cider ever- its the bitterest thing ever. Agh! And now it tastes like I've already vomited it back up. |
| 23/10/11 | Malvern Press 81 | N/A | N/A | Rather average. A bit bitter and quite gassy. | At least I can finish this one though. |
| 30/10/11 | Henry Weston's Vintage Perry | N/A | N/A | Rich and balanced | Hoo-hoo that's delicious. |
| 13/11/11 | Samuel Smith's Organic Cider | Tadcaster | N/A | Very light and disappointingly tasteless | The label is good though. It looks like something you would buy in Hobbiton. |
| 20/11/11 | Perry's Somerset Dabinett Cider. | Somerset | N/A | Rich,sweet but a bit bitter at the same time | Lovely coppery colour and smells like...those pint glass jelly sweets you used to get in 10p mix-ups. |
| 27/11/11 | Westons Old Rosie Coudy Cider | N/A | N/A | Perfectly balanced. Lots of green apple flavour. | N/A |
| 4/12/11 | Gaymer's Devon Medium Cider | Devon | N/A | Fruity with a nice bite to it. | N/A |
| 11/12/11 | Addlesones Cloudy Premium Cider | N/A | N/A | Quite nice. Slight metallic tang to it. | N/A |
| 18/12/11 | Gaymer's Newtons Vale | N/A | N/A. | Very rich with a spiciness to it. | N/A |
| 26/12/11 | M&S Somerset Vintage | Somerset | N/A | Drinkable, average, floweriness to it. | N/A |
| 1/1/12 | Bulmers No.17 | N/A | N/A | SWEET! | Jesus, its making my eyes hurt its so sweet |
| 8/1/12 | Hereford's Pilgrim | N/A | N/A | Sweet, with a rich fruity flavour | Its very light with almost a greenish tinge to it. Yeah, it looks like what you're thinking... |
| 15/1/12 | Symond's Founders Reserve | N/A | N/A | Nice colour but disappointing taste | Smells of..cider..tastes..like nothing |
| 22/1/12 | Kingston Press | N/A | N/A | Not bad in a mass produced, generic kind of way. | N/A |
| 29/1/12 | Brother's Bitter Sweet Apple Cider | N/A | N/A | Interesting but after-taste is a bit medicinal. | N/A |
| 19/2/12 | Bulmers Crisp Blend | N/A | N/A | Light in colour, doesn't smell of much but not bad. | That's what normal Bulmers used to be like before it got all sweet and sticky |
So there you go. I guess I'll keep coming back to this and periodically add to it. One thing I always wanted was for people to join in with the apple based shenanigans. Go on, you know you want to. Just buy your self
a bottle of cider, open it on Sunday night and either post your opinion on here, on my Facebook page or tweet about it and use the #sundaycider hashtag. It'll be fun. Or something closely approximating it anyway.
Just noticed, I should probably change the sub-title of the blog shouldn't I? Never mind. Next time...
Edit
I should thank Snap Bird for making it easy to search my old tweets so I could find what I had drank and what I'd said about them.
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