Feedback 1: Billy B's and India

*** Billy B's and India. I just came home from my India trip and I got a very lovely surprise: 2 bottles of your malted apple beer. And after a little bit disappointing trip to India that was a lovely homecoming. I want to thank you very much for sending these bottles to me. I will certainly share them with fellow beer enthousiast so that a lot of people can get to know your beers!

*** That Cold Crisp Apple Taste. We visited your cellar door in April and bought a bottle of champagne. We got to drink it this week. What a surprize it tasted as nice if not better than we remembered. That cold crisp apple taste, burst out from the first mouthful. So please send me a dozen bottles. Thanks Heaps, Rose C.

*** Falling in Love. My name is Lotus,I am eighty seven years of age. My doctor has advised me, "if there is anything you want to do, do it today" So I dug myself out of my chair and flew to cairns to visit my son. During my stay he proudly introduced me to Thorogoods Cherry Panic - I fell in love. Imagine my surprize and delight when I called at my post office and was handed one dozen bottles of Thorogoods Cherry Panic and Sweet Panic. It was a wonderful welcome home.

*** Gold Dust; It doesn't get any better than this. An elegant complex apple wine from Australia's Leading cider maker. This has so much class that it could easily be served in place of a Reisling with dinner. In the glass it is translucent pale gold and as still as the grave. The aroma is crisp and acidic, with a hint of dusty hay bale about it. Very fresh and natural. It is quite wine like in complexity, with some sweetness to balance the acidity. The mouthfeel is slick verging on oily. It is gloriously smooth, as fresh tasting as mountain water. It is a still cider branded as dry but with enough sweetness to bring it close to medium-sweet by my reckoning. The 11% abv is beautifully integrated. There is lots of apple fruitiness but with chewy oak barrel in the finish. In fact, I suspect it is the time in oak that makes Tony Thorogood's products so memorable. It is a pity that cider garners so little attention in this corner of the world. Cider this good deserves a wider audience. By Highlandlad, Sydney.