Puddicombe – Apple Cranberry
Cider Profile:
Name: Puddicombe – Family Tree Apple Cranberry
Sampled March 2022
| Brand: Puddicombe Cider Company Type: Flavoured – Cranberry Location of Brewing: Winona, ON ABV: 5.5% Website Link: puddicombecider.com Ingredients: N/A. Sulphites Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 473ml (can) |
Cider Crate Tasting Notes:
Smell: Medium aroma. Musty, slightly tart cranberry with light apples. Some pungency.
Initial Taste: Light bite from carbonation and tartness. Musty and tart cranberry and apple blend that is sour and bitter but not quite puckering. Cherry-like flavour notes as well.
After Taste: Apple dissipates and cleans up in mouthfeel a bit – with almost a candied (but mostly dry) finish. Musty notes linger in the aftertaste with saline-like notes appearing and staying.
On ice: Slightly reduced in overall punchy-ness but not much else.
Additional Notes: The Puddicombe Apple Cranberry is a blended cider back-sweetened with cranberry juice and a touch of sugar (as per the can). It’s rather tart from the cranberry, and has a strong underlying mustiness to it. Not an overwhelming amount of apple, and it lingers a long time with a salty-like note. A lot of elements that are strong…. not your typical cranberry-apple cider.
Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 1.5
Sour – 3.5
Crisp – 1.5
Dry – 4
Fruity – 3.5
Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Thornbury – Cranberry Apple Cider
More Sour – Archibalds – Hard Cranberry Cider
More Dry – Rice Lake – Cranberry Dry Cider
More Crisp – Howell Road – Cranberry Cider
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