Like last year, and the year before, Scott put together a DIY cider advent calendar for me. I think it was pretty hard to find new ones but he did very well, nearly all of them were ones I hadn’t tried before.

• Little Woody Sparkling Oaked Cider – weird taste that’s hard to describe, not bad, dry, but not something I would probably buy 7/10
• Mr. Little Genuine Apple Cider – refreshing, not too sweet, tasty 8/10
• Simple Cider Cox’s Orange Pippin – sour, crabappley?, weird 5/10
• Lychee Gold – literally juice as it’s low alcohol 5/10

• Three Oaks Cider Adelaide Hills Crushed Apple – too sweet 6/10
• Stowford Press Apple Cider – UK type cider, a little funky, fine 7/10
• Oranjeboom – surprisingly nice, generic but tasty apple cider taste 8/10
• Hills Cider Tropical Sour – definitely sour, mango-y, but too much pineapple for me 6/10

• Mr Finch Premium Apple Cider – too sweet 6/10
• Newton’s Crisp Apple Cider – too sweet 6/10
• Mortimers Orchard English Apple Cider – traditional English type cider, ok 6/10
• Scape Goat Crisp Apple Cider – too sweet 6/10
• Old Rosie – still cider, one of the better flat ciders but still meh. comes in fun giant jug. good value? 5/10

(Clearly I don’t like ciders in clear glass bottles?!)

• Big Shed Cherry Popper – actually not very cherry-y at all? not bad 7/10
• Bilpin Archibald Cloudy Apple Cider – tart, dry, delicious! 10/10!!
• Treehouse Cider – nice (I’d had this one before but they changed the label) 9/10
• Two Birds Apple Cider – noice, lady brewery! 9/10
• Forbidden Fruit Cider Apple Berry – legit like a juice box 7/10

• Cidre de Fouesnant Pur Jus Manoir de Kinkiz – had a cork, strong tastes, oaky, smokey, funky 6/10 (I’d had this one before but forgot to rate it so I was happy to have a second go)
• Henry Westons Oak Aged Vintage Cider – too funky 6/10
• Flying Fox Original Cider – tasted better in the bottle than at the cidery, ok 7/10
• The Apple Thief Pink Lady Cider – meh 7/10
• Nightingale Bros Alpine Cider Pink Lady Dry – very dry!! 7/10

Overall not that many high ratings… perhaps there is a reason they’re not the easiest ciders to track down. However, I gave out my first ever 10/10 so that’s a win!!

This will most likely be the last DIY cider advent calendar as I think I’ve now tasted a good portion of all the ciders in Australia! Maybe next year I’ll get something easy and store-bought, haha.