Dirty Dog – Snow Traditional Dry

Cider Profile:

Name: Dirty Dog – Snow Traditional Dry Cider
Sampled July 2025

Brand: Dirty Dog Cider Company Type: Apple – Single varietal Location of Production: Colborne, ON ABV: 6.3% Website Link: facebook.com/dirtydogcider Ingredients: 100% locally grown fruit (snow apple) Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottle) Availability: Dirty Dog retail store Flavour: Apple (snow Colour: Translucent, murky straw yellow Carbonation: Fine to small streaming bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Strong aroma. Earthy, mixed apple notes. Flesh and peel. Some funk/dankness.
Initial Taste: Minimal bite. A quick but short acidity hit, with a slight bitterness. Dry, earthy, natural apple notes come out – some peel, some flesh (and creaminess). A crisp body and flavour.
After Taste:  A mixture of varietal notes define themselves – yellow, red and green aspects noticeable here. Remains crisp, and semi-sharp. Lingering peel notes, as the creamy body washes out.
On ice: Makes apple notes less definable – more generic. Less acidity + bitterness.

Additional Notes: Dirty Dog’s Snow Traditional Dry Cider is a single varietal cider with a longstanding Quebec-originating variety – also known as a Fameuse. It starts off with a quick hit of acidity and some bitterness, leading to a wide range of apple characteristics following – surprising because its only 1 type of apple used here. We get notes of green, red and golden apples all here. It’s a dry cider, with no significant sweetness. You get the peel adding some crispness and the flesh adding some creaminess. A crisp cider, it tastes almost without alcohol and freshly pressed.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 2
Sour – 3.5
Crisp – 4
Dry – 4
Fruity – 4.5

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Heemans – Century Cider
More Sour – Daughters – Thos Kilbank 1890
More Dry – Loch Mor – Danforth Rd: Kingston Black
More Crisp – Geissberger – Hard Apple 

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