County Cider – Legacy Series Sidra
Cider Profile:
Name: County Cider – Legacy Series Sidra
Sampled October 2022
| Brand: County Cider Co. Type: Apple – Sidra Location of Brewing: Picton, ON ABV: 6.5% Website Link: countycider.com Ingredients: N/A Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/ASize(s) available: 750ml (bottle) Availability: Limited series – at County retail store Flavour: Apple Colour: Transparent sunshine yellow Carbonation: Medium infrequently streaming bubbles |
Cider Crate Tasting Notes:
Smell: Medium aroma. Hints of savoury floral and citrus. Funky, dry apple.
Initial Taste: Medium bite from acidity. Quickly sour and dank apples. Fermentation and barreling notes.
After Taste: Becomes smoother and brighter, but still with fermentation notes. Apples are a bit more fleshy. Rough citrus-like notes. Sourness migrates to the throat and lingers.
On ice: Thinner body. Helps reduce sourness and funk. Smoother overall.
Additional Notes: As a part of County Cider’s Legacy Series, the Sidra is inspired from the well-known style from Spain. Well capturing the sourness and dankess of this traditional style, its gritty, with a lot of fermentation and barreling notes, as well as being a bit pungent, funky and decently puckering at times. The apples are very dry, becoming slightly brighter and more flesh-focused as the more bold elements dwindle. Some of the sour notes end up lingering in the throat for a while. Having tried a traditional Spanish Sidra before having this will help add context.
Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 1
Sour – 4.5
Crisp – 1.5
Dry – 4.5
Fruity – 2.5
Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Tall Post – Original Draught Cider
More Sour – Steel Town – PORRO!
More Dry –
More Crisp – West Avenue – Legend of the Fall
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