Well I got into a few of my first batch the other night, and its bloody tops in my opinion, as good as anything that ever came out of a mercury or strongbow bottle either way.
Maybe I'm easily pleased or biased or both!! But very impressed with the quality after only 3 weeks in the bottle, can only get better. Its dryish, but not so much that you think your drinking cheap wine, I can still taste the apples.
Looking forward to the next batch that has some blackcurrant, raspberry and strawberry juice in it. Cider number 3 is going to be loaded up with pear juice. Cant knock the brigalow kit for a base, but am going to try a black rock soon and gauge any difference.
This cider brewing has certainly slowed down the beer side of things, need to get another fv, had two but the other had a bit of an integrity failure around the tap thread so I chucked it. Need to replace it for sure, I'm getting thirsty!!