Sam's Autumn Scrumpy

Very pale with even a lime green tinge. I don't recognise this as a scrumpy so I'm struggling to describe my thoughts, it's more like dry acidic white wine. A slight apple/pear taste and slightly carbonated with a 7.4% ABV.

Pale, lime green, with an indeterminate fruit aroma, falling somewhere between apple and pear, but not really either. Strange, monotonal, chemical taste. This is more like a poor quality Scandanavian pear cider than scrumpy! I have never seen scrumpy this colour, nor tasted one with so little depth or character.

Well this is a disappointment. I’ve never had a ‘scrumpy’ that tastes like this. Was a real surprise. It doesn’t really smell of anything at all - perhaps a hint of lime and some apple peel, but that’s pushing it. It almost looks like champagne in the glass, clear and fizzy and tastes like a Prosecco going flat or a gone-off version of Aspall’s draft. This cider, considering its described as a ‘scrumpy’, has a huge chemical taste. Pretty back, tasteless and dry but thin and short on length considering a medium to light body. I’ve nothing more to say other than it’s 7.4%ABV - so it’ll get you drunk and perhaps cause memory loss if you have too much, but in all honesty, you’d want to forget this cider in an instant. I’ve seldom had disappointment like this when making a review but this one is up there and I’ve only given it 2/5. It’s bland, acidic, tasteless bar a hint of lime and overall dry and uneventful. What a crying shame, I almost gave it 1/5 so see what you think if you ever get to give it a try.

Had bag-in-box. I've a soft spot for Winkleigh but can't gainsay other reviewers on this one. Strange that their medium and dry are so good but this is so below par, and somewhat weird. A change of name is in order, maybe Devon Off-White Cider?

Pale yellow colour, clear with moderate fizz. Light chemically apple aroma. Slightly wine like so the opposite of what I would recognise as scrumpy. No discernible apple taste. Can’t get on with this.