Brookers – Batch 5 Natural Dry Cider (2023)

Cider Profile:

Name: Brookers – Batch 5 Natural Dry Cider (2023)
Sampled September 2025

Brand: Brookers Cider Co. Type: Apple – Dry Location of Production: Scotch Bush, ON ABV: 6.8% Website Link: brookerscider.ca/ Ingredients: Wild apples, honey Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 750ml (bottle) Availability: Brookers retail + online store Flavour: Apple Colour: Hazy rusty orange Carbonation: Small, frequently streaming bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Spiced apple tea. Some lemon. Creamy, pulpy apple.
Initial Taste: Minimal bite from carbonation. Pulpy, semi-crisp, fresh-tasting apple. Citric acid-taste.Semi-creamy body and whipped vanilla notes.  A lightly spiced apple tea note.
After Taste: A lemon tea note comes through. Hints of cardamom. Apple becomes drier, retaining some crispness. Apple notes linger awhile. Finished relatively clean.
On ice: Slightly thinner. Less spiced apple expression.

Additional Notes: Brooker’s Natural Dry 2023 Batch 5 Cider is an exploration in the unique flavour expressions that apples can present naturally. It honestly tastes like a spiced apple tea at points, without a drop of tea to be found. It has a pulpy, semi-crisp apple base that could be mixed up for a fresh sweet cider at points. Creamy, it also has some citric apple notes. Then comes a spice tea note, nothing too bold as there are no adjuncts, but notes of cinnamon and cardamom seem to be tasted. It becomes more of a black lemon tea note in the finish. Long-lingering pulpy notes. Has honey within, maybe adding to some of the unique flavour expressions, but not necessarily a lot of “honey” flavour notes.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 2
Sour – 3,5
Crisp – 3.5
Dry – 4
Fruity – 4

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Thornbury – Spiced Apple
More Sour – Saunders – Saw Tooth Cider
More Dry – Halls 1947 – Dolgo Crabapple Sour
More Crisp – County – Harvest Spice

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