The Cider Crate – Best of 2021
Year two of lockdown provided some really good cider offerings, here are our best for 2021 ~Bethany and Barry Top 5 Overall Cold Creek – Erin Go Brach Duntroon – Empire Dry Apple Saunders – Tricky Treat / Candy Apple Shale Ridge – Cherry Chocolate Geissberger – Hard Apple Cider Top 10 – Apple […]
The Cider Crate Top 5 New Ciders We Tried Spring 2021
We try a lot of ciders here at The Cider Crate – so we want to give seasonal recognition to the top 5 we have every 3 months. In no particular order, here they are! Kings Mill – Russet Heritage FieldBird – Black Barred Charmat Perry Steel Town – Planet of the Pies Duntroon […]
Our Top 5 Strawberry-Forward Ciders for Spring 2021
Strawberry season is a mood of its own, but always too short of a season overall. With June promising juicy berries, we thought to shine some light on our favourite strawberry-forward ciders! Heritage Estate – Eden’s Apple Strawberry We aren’t sure how Heritage Estate got a strawberry shortcake in a can, but this cider is […]
Our Top 5 Floral Infused Ciders for Spring 2021
Ah Spring… warming weather, cute animals and of course, the flowers are blooming all around! One of the more unique type of ingredients we’ve seen being added to ciders – especially lately – are flowers! We picked our top 5 floral infused ciders to celebrate the rebirth that Spring can bring. Duntoon Cyder House – […]
Our Top 5 Ciders for a Festive Cinco de Mayo 2021
Mexico is a wondrous country of great beauty and great people who are kind, friendly and with a good sense of humour. Cinco de Mayo is only one of their colourful celebrations every year and any observance of it must be respectful to the culture and country. We rounded up our top 5 ciders we […]
Spring 2021 LCBO Cider Releases to Look For
Spring always promises many new cider releases at the LCBO. Here are some of the most promising releases heading to shelves across Ontario soon (but you can buy most of these already from thier respective online + retail stores) If there are two trends we see, peach and rosé ciders will once again rule the […]
The Cider Crate Top 5 New Ciders We Tried Winter 2021
We are starting a new thing here at The Cider Crate – we try dozens of new ciders every month, but want to start sharing our top 5 every season/3 months going forward. There are so many great ciders and cideries in Ontario and beyond so this is our way to given special recognition to […]
Top Dry Hopped Cider Picks for a Hoppy Easter 2021
While hops are mainly associated with beer, dry-hopped ciders are increasingly growing in popularity. When infused into cider, they typically add fruity-like notes, such as lemon, citrus, lychee and more – but can also be bitter, floral and more. Dry hopping works well for both sweet and dry ciders, and everything in between. As Easter […]
The Cider Crate – Best of 2020
Fortunately there were still some bests’ in 2020! Here are our favs. ~Bethany and Barry Top 5 Overall Cold Creek – Cuvée Madeline FieldBird – 2018 Perry Sur Lie Banjo – Rouge East Street – Harvest Botanical Farmgate – Mulled Top 5 – Apple Cold Creek – Cuvée Madeline Banjo – Dueling Banjos Twin Pines […]
The Cider Crate – Best of 2019
As we come to the end of the decade (and half of it, us doing cider stuff), we have a chance to share some of our favourite moments of the past 365 days! ~Bethany and Barry Cider Crate Combined: Top 5 Bottles/Cans Cider 101 – Dr Peppercorn With Cherry Niagara Cider Company – No. 1 […]
The Best Ciders to Keep You Warm this Winter [2019]
Now that Christmas and the holidays are over, the allure of winter can dwindle. It becomes less of the magical winter wonderland with lights and powdery snow it was in November and December, and more of a grey, slush-fest of snow squalls and un-sholved sidewalks until hopefully only March (sometimes April though!). We at The […]
The Cider Crate – Best of 2018
So as we come to the end of 2018 and are third full year in operation, we are happy to look back on some of the best ciders we had the past year and our favourite locales to enjoy them! Have a look and we hope you tried a few yourself! We sampled over 200 […]
The Cider Crate – Best of 2017
So as we come to the end of 2017, we are happy to look back on some of the best ciders we had the past year and our favourite locales to enjoy them! Have a look and we hope you tried a few yourself! We sampled over 200 ciders all year, posting reviews of close […]
