Kings Mill – Blueberry

Cider Profile:

Name: Kings Mill – Blueberry
Sampled July 2022

Brand: Kings Mill Cider Type: Flavoured – Blueberry Location of Brewing: Stirling, ON ABV: 8.5% Website Link: kingsmillcider.ca Ingredients: N/A Gluten Free: Yes  Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottles) Availability: Kings Mill online + retail stores Flavour: Blueberry Colour: Transparent dark peach Carbonation: Medium infrequent bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Sweet, muddled blueberry, Light apple flesh
Initial Taste: Light bite from carbonation and acidity, Slow build to a strong, sour apple with some fermentation notes and a light blueberry skin flavour
After Taste: Apple and blueberry reduce, leaving mostly a semi-sour apple element (like a granny smith). Sour and slightly tart but not quite puckering.  Clean finish. Woodsy/earthy like notes.
On ice: Reduced sour, fermentation notes. Much “cleaner”

Additional Notes:  Kings Mill Blueberry Cider is more of a naturally sour, crisp and juicy apple cider with mild muddled blueberries. The blueberries taste mostly skin-focused, but on the lighter and delicate side. Overall, rather juicy and full flavoured, it has a bit of fermentation elements that add pop to it in the initial taste, but that dissipates and finishes quite clean.  

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 2
Sour – 4
Crisp – 3.5
Dry – 3.5
Fruity –  4

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Shale Ridge – Blueberry Hops
More Sour – Steel Town – The Northmen
More Dry – 
More Crisp – Heemans – Blue Berry Cider

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