Twin Pines – Rusty Prince

Cider Profile:

Name: Twin Pines – Rusty Prince
Sampled July 2025

Brand:  Twin Pines Ciderhouse and Orchard Type: Apple – Crisp Location of Brewing: Thedford, ON ABV: 6.8% Website Link: twinpinesorchards.com Ingredients: Russet and Red Prince apples Gluten Free: Yes Sugar Content: N/A Size(s) available: 1L (bottle) Availability: Twin Pines retail + online store Flavour: Apple Colour:  Transparent gold with rust hues Carbonation: Fine streaming bubbles

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Cider Crate Tasting Notes:

Smell: Medium aroma. Pulpy, sweet apples. Some sharp apples with a bit of earthiness.
Initial Taste: Lite bite from carbonation.  Crisp, acidity-driving blend of semi-dry apples with some dank and gritty elements. Red peel notes.  Semi-sharp and bitter.  Pretty light in intensity with minimal tannins and sweetness.
After Taste: Apple becomes more bitter in the long-longering aftertaste. Some flesh creaminess but also peel grit and earthy-notes.  A few fermentation notes become noticeable. 
On ice: Ice strips a lot of the flavour, even though there isn’t that much of a difference noticeable.

Additional Notes:  Twin Pines Rusty Prince is a two apple varietal cider offering, Russet and Red Prince Apples. This blend of apples that have different elements result in a somewhat clean, bitter but gritty, peel-elements.  Tasting like a yellow/brown and red-apple blend, it showcases the clean natural elements of the two varieties with some nuance – it becomes a little more dank, gritty, earthy and fermentation note focused in the longer-lasting aftertaste. 

Rated on a scale of 1-5
Sweet – 2
Sour – 2.5
Crisp – 3
Dry – 4
Fruity – 2

Next recommendations:
More Sweet – Carolinia – Off-Dry
More Sour – West Avenue – Legacy 1642
More Dry – Heemans – Russet
More Crisp – Two Blokes – Root & Bloom

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