The Mitten

Virtue Cider in Fennville, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

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6.98

ABV: 6.8%

IBU: -

Ticks: 35

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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7.5

willisread (9761) ticked The Mitten (2021) from Virtue Cider 7 months ago

Tried from Bottle from Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine on 04 Aug 2025 at 03:43

kristincedar (7052) ticked The Mitten from Virtue Cider 1 year ago

Nice warm cider.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:42

7.5

McDermottDrink (4593) reviewed The Mitten from Virtue Cider 2 years ago

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

mcberko (47456) reviewed The Mitten from Virtue Cider 5 years ago

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

Klimaet (3573) reviewed The Mitten from Virtue Cider 6 years ago

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

Inbreak (10170) reviewed The Mitten from Virtue Cider 7 years ago

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...

Tried from Bottle on 01 Nov 2018 at 19:06

allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked The Mitten from Virtue Cider 7 years ago

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

Martin Lindström (24380) ticked The Mitten from Virtue Cider 7 years ago

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Tried on 13 Sep 2018 at 13:21

7.1

Palme (4406) ticked The Mitten from Virtue Cider 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried on 02 Jun 2017 at 05:47

6.8

HenrikSoegaard (21963) reviewed The Mitten from Virtue Cider 8 years ago

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