Thornbury – Mango Lemonade Dragon Fruit

Cider Profile:

Name: Thornbury – Mango Lemonade Dragon Fruit Cider
Sampled May 2025

Brand:  Thornbury Cider Co. Type: Flavoured – Fruit Location of Brewing: Thornbury, ON ABV: 4.5% Website Link: thornburycraft.com Ingredients: Aged apple cider, sugars (cane sugar). natural flavours, lemon juice, freeze dried dragon fruit powder, sulphites. Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: 37g/L Size(s) available: 473ml (can), 650ml (bottle) Availability: LCBO (2025), Thornbury retail and online stores Flavour: Mango, lemon, dragonfruit Colour:  Translucent straw yellow Carbonation: Mixed infrequent bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Strong aroma. Dragon fruit and lemonade forward with noticeable mango. Light, minimal apple.
Initial Taste: Light bite. Smooth and sweet juicy mango, dragon fruit and some lemon.  A touch of dessert apples, soft and fresh. Dragon fruit tastes a bit candied and artificial/concentrated.
After Taste: As the flavours  dissipate quickly, some more apple notes come though that are a little bit peel-like. Touch of bitter lemon.
On ice: Flavour and sweetness is dramatically cut.

Additional Notes:  Thornbury’s Mango Lemonade Dragonfruit is a lighter, fruit forward offering at 4.5%.   With lots of uplifting juicy dragon fruit, mango and some lemon elements. Somewhat sweet and light in apple flavour, it reminds us of a fruity childhood drink.  Flavour dissipates somewhat quickly leaving a little bit more apple peel in the aftertaste.  A little bitter lemon zest in the finish. Dragon fruit does taste artificial, but the ingredients do say its freeze dried fruit.

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 4
Sour – 2
Crisp – 2.5
Dry – 1.5
Fruity – 4.5

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More Sweet – Shiny – Pineapple Mango
More Sour – Steel Town – Vay Kay Cider
More Dry – Ironwood – Yuja Yuzu Citrus Cider
More Crisp – Ernest – Lemon Sorbet

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