Niagara Cider – Blackberry Honey

Cider Profile:

Name: Niagara Cider – Blackberry Honey
Sampled July 2024

Brand:  Niagara Cider Company Type: Flavoured – Blackberry Location of Production: Beamsville, ON ABV: 6% Website Link: niagaracidercompany.com Ingredients: Apples, sugars (blackberry juice concentrate, honey, invert sugar), natural flavours, sulphites Gluten Free:  Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 473ml (can) Availability: LCBO 2024, Niagara Cider @ Bench Brewing retail and online stores Flavour: Blackberry & honey Colour:  Transparent ruby red, rusty hues Carbonation: Small, streaming bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Tart blackberry. Sharp apple notes (including green apple). Fruity effervescent.
Initial Taste: Medium bite. Tart, dry, unripe blackberry. Apple notes – including granny smith-like notes. Minerality. Concord grape note.
After Taste: Blackberries become a bit softer, and a bit sweeter. Mostly berry-focused here. Mild honey notes emerges once the fruit elements dwindle.
On ice: Reduced carbonation. More blackberry-focused.

Additional Notes:  Niagara Cider’s Blackberry Honey is a dry, slightly blackberry-forward over crisp apple offering. Blackberries taste a bit underipe, but tart and dry. Decently crisp, we assume that is mostly from the apple base – which we found seems to have some green apple flavours to it. It becomes more blackberry-focused as it goes on, with the honey only really making an appearance in the finish. 

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

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More Crisp – Shiny – Brambleberry Cider

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