401 Brewery – Kitchen Sink Berry Blend Cider
Cider Profile:
Name: 401 Brewery – Kitchen Sink Berry Blend Cider
Sampled April 2022
| Brand: The 401 Cider Brewery (The Big Apple) Type: Flavoured – Mixed Berry Location of Brewing: Colborne, ON ABV: 5.5% Website Link: thebigapple.ca/menu/401cider Ingredients: Fermented apple and grape juice, blackberry puree, sugar, sulphites, potassium sorbate Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/ASize(s) available: 341ml & 750ml (bottle) Availability: The Big Apple online + retail Flavour: Mixed berry Colour: Transparent ruby red, rusty hues Carbonation: Foamy when poured. Then small infrequent bubbles |
Cider Crate Tasting Notes:
Smell: Medium aroma. Tart berry. Hint of apple flesh.
Initial Taste: Minimal bite from carbonation. Tart and plump blackberry. Fermentation and boozy notes. Hint of dessert apple.
After Taste: Blackberry notes remain. A bit of grape comes through. Becomes drier. Alcohol notes remain and build.
On ice: Thinner mouthfeel. All flavours reduced. Less alcoholic notes. Smoother and juicer.
Additional Notes: 401 Cider’s Kitchen Sink Berry Blend cider is a blackberry forward offering, but thats only the real berry we get here (also the only berry listed in the ingredients (despite being called a ‘berry blend’). A very boozy/alcoholic/fermentation note-based cider, it drinks a bit like a fruit wine instead, but it’s only 5.5%. Tart blackberries greet you and remain throughout. You get minimal apple, with some of that grape juice notes coming through in the finish. Off-dry, but becomes slightly drier in the finish.
Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 3.5
Sour – 3.5
Crisp – 3
Dry – 3
Fruity – 3.5
Next recommendations:
More Sweet – County – Blackberry Peach
More Sour – Kings Mill – Black Currant
More Dry – East Street – Après Blueberry Black Cherry Cider Seltzer
More Crisp – Reinhart’s – Blackberry Cider
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