The Mitten
Virtue Cider in Fennville, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Cider Winter|
Score
6.98
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The Mitten is a winter cider, a blend of last season's best, aged in bourbon barrels, with the new season’s fresh pressed apple juice. Straight cider, aged for three seasons, finds notes of vanilla, caramel and charred American oak, balanced with the best of the orchard, over-ripe apples and their sweet, tart, earthy juice. Many barrels are filled, but only a small portion, the very smoothest, will find their way into The Mitten.
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7/10
Nice warm cider.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Goose Island's Barrel Warehouse for the BCS Media Preview. Light-looking pour, with some fizz to it from the tap. Smell offers the usual cider, and a bit of oak and vanilla. Same goes for the taste. Very smooth, even a bit buttery. This may or may not have been the version aged in Bourbon County Stout barrels. but I'm going with the more common iteration. Sweet, woody, and easy going.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2023
at 03:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Virtue, pours a clear pale blonde. Aroma reveals earthy bourbon and muted apple skins. Flavour is quite dry, with a really nice bourbon and vanilla character upfront, and gentle caramel. Traces of residual sweetness provide the complexity needed. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2020
at 04:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap. Pours clear pale golden with a small white head. Aromas of sweet apples, vanilla, light oak, pear. Taste is sweet, some vanilla oaky notes, mostly just apples and a bit of pear like sweetness. Dries out.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
01.11.2018, 0,75l bottle shared with friends @ location tasting:
Small slightly bubbly mediumlasting head, cloudy golden color. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, sour apple juice, oak, apple cores, hay, sorrel, mild bourbon, bark, minerals, apple peel, alcohol. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, apple cores, hay, sour apples, minerals, sorrel, oak, apple peel, mild bourbon, grass, flowers. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Nice one. Something kind of remind me of a light ice cider...
Small slightly bubbly mediumlasting head, cloudy golden color. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, sour apple juice, oak, apple cores, hay, sorrel, mild bourbon, bark, minerals, apple peel, alcohol. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, apple cores, hay, sour apples, minerals, sorrel, oak, apple peel, mild bourbon, grass, flowers. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Nice one. Something kind of remind me of a light ice cider...
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2018
at 19:06
7/10
01FEB16. Bourbon barrel aged cider? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Basically a light apple cider with lots of bourbon barrel notes, it's a tasty and subtle hint to bourbon notes + apple stuff. Wish it was stronger though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2018
at 21:47
7/10
Backlog
Tried
on 13 Sep 2018
at 13:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 02 Jun 2017
at 05:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught. Clear yellow colour. Powerfull nice apple aroma. Week barnyard and barrel just present. MOderate nice apple flavor. Very dry. Barrel just present. Average finish. Oily palate. NIce.
Tried
on 16 May 2017
at 05:28