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Appearance:<\/b> Golden, slight yeast haze<\/p>\n
Flavor:<\/b> A conflicting and poorly balanced mix of flavors. About the only thing that is right is that the finish is dry – which is how I like my ciders. After that, it all goes wrong. The most obvious ‘flavor’ is a clash between the apple notes of the cider must and the stone fruit character of the yeast. Yes, in hindsight it is pretty obvious that apple would clash with the raisin\/date\/dried fruit note of the yeast, but that didn’t enter my thought process when planing out this recipe. But if that were not enough, the spice character of the yeast also conflicts – as in this beast is a Mexican standoff of three conflicting flavors. In place of the (hoped for) clove character I instead have a stale “5-year old cheap pumpkin spice” character. The sort of thing you would expect from jar of budget-bin mixed spices found in the back of your spice cabinet (or in any starbucks-branded scone). In other words, the flavor was that of apples fighting with dates, fighting with something akin to an unnamed brand of underarm deodorant. Either of the former two would be OK, but the three together are wrong, wrong and wrong.<\/p>\n
Mouthfeel:<\/b> Its a cider, so its dry and crisp. Even poor yeast selection couldn’t screw that one up.<\/p>\n
Overall:<\/b> Disappointment in a glass. Sort of like liquefying every date you ever had in middle-school – not overly good, but hidden potential was there. I don’t think the concept itself is flawed, but T-58 is not the yeast to make this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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