UPDATED: JAN 9, 2022 Bottle. Can’t recall where from. Pours clear gold before a big yeast dump sends it all new aged and hazy. Very noisy head quickly disappears to form a film of white. Nose has sour apple pomace. Hint of bourbon. Lemon rind. Lime juice. Some bretty notes. Taste is dry and sour. Thin on the palate with some acidity. High foamy carbonation. Dry and sour finish.

UPDATED: SEP 2, 2021 Bottle from Cloudwater online store. Pours murky yellow gold with a dissipating white head. Aroma: sweet, cider, funk. Taste: moderate sweet, cider, lemon citrus, funk. Tricky to describe. It's got to be my first barrel aged snakebite though. Medium body with spritzy carbonation. A good fun experiment, and I enjoyed it, although it probably won't win too many points for style from the purists

UPDATED: AUG 13, 2021 Bottle from Cloudwater online store. Lightly hazed gold with a thin white head. Oh my, the nose is nostalgic. Cider and malts. Little funky. Musty. Jelly fruit sweetness. A cut of lime. Medium bodied, fizzy and dry. I think the experiment is a success but it's certainly not something I would wish to reminisce too long over.

UPDATED: AUG 11, 2021 Five guys on a mission, Shrewsbury Beer Share in Chez Sophie: 9th Aug 2021. Cheers Paolo for the 375ml bottle of this weird one. Cloudy pale yellow body, mini white head. Sweet lemon flavour and very un Maibock or even Heller Bock and where was the cider influence? Not overly impressed, glad I didn't pay for it!

UPDATED: AUG 10, 2021 375ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Aug 21. Praise be to Paolo for bringing this one. Pours gold with a light mist, small white head. Very strange sweet sugary aroma that's hard to pin down, taste is similarly sweet, sugary and not quite what I envisaged from the description. Cider influence unfortunately seems negligible, instead resulting in a beer that appears a little confused, the helles sweetness seemingly latching onto the lemon juice with a soft bourbon presence and some indistinct sweet shop sugar. Not entirely convinced this one works, but possibly could've worked with more of Oliver's cider in the mix. Great to try something different though.