401 Cider – Pumpkin Spice

Cider Profile:

Name: 401 Cider Brewery – Autumn Series Pumpkin Spice
Sampled February 2026

Brand: 401 Cider Brewery Type: Flavoured – Pumpkin Spice Location of Production: Colborne, ON ABV: 5.5% Website Link 401cidercompany.com/ Ingredients: Fermented apple juice, sugar, natural flavour, sulfites, potassium sorbate Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/ASize(s) available: 750ml (bottle) Availability: 401 Retail Store Flavour: Pumpkin spice Colour: Translucent peachy orange Carbonation: Small, infrequent bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Sulphur. Light spicing.
Initial Taste: Minimal bite from carbonation. Earthy pumpkin. Gritty, dank spices that include clove and nutmeg. Minimal apple flesh. Plastic-like notes.
After Taste: Spices are danker here. Apple weaken, leaving mainly clove and light pumpkin-like notes.
On ice: Slightly thinner bodied. Elements more dank and earthy. Less apple.

Additional Notes: 401 Cider’s Pumpkin Spice Cider is a part of their autumn series. While we are unsure if it contains any pumpkin, it has an earthy, vegetal-like pumpkin note at times. The spices are more on the savoury, dank side, with nutmeg and clove being dominant. The apple base is thin, not very crisp or apple forward. It does have plastic and sulphur notes within. Thin bodied, and low carbonation.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 1.5
Sour – 2.5
Crisp – 1.5
Dry – 3.5
Fruity – 2

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Saunders – Pie Face
More Sour – County Cider – Harvest Spice
More Dry – 
More Crisp – Cold Creek – All Hallows’ Eve (2024)

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