Merridale Cidery & Distillery

Cidery in Cobble Hill, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Merridale Estate Cidery

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1230 Merridale Rd, Cobble Hill, V0R 1L0, Canada

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5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle - Orange citrus, farmhouse and some artificial orange notes. Cloudy gold. Light orange and some weedy notes and a bitter peel finish.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2017 at 17:33

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
On tap at Parallel 49, pours a cloudy orange with no head. Aroma is loaded with floral dry hopping and a touch of green apple. Flavour is sweet and hoppy, with heaps of green apple, plenty of floral hops, and lots of residual sugar. Not a refined cider by any means: messy, sweet and somewhat abrasive; but it's still fun and drinkable.
Tried from Draft on 31 Oct 2017 at 11:32

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Tap at Alibi. Deep gold, clear, some bubbles. Caramel apple nose, pie, nice apples, calvados. Very boozy and a bit phenolic, but a sweet apple background with caramel makes it interesting for such a big cider. Too boozy but characterful.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2017 at 20:43

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Pale green with medium haze. Tart, then sweet, then a bit of lime, more tartness, more juicy character.
Tried on 02 Sep 2017 at 13:46

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Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Pale blond color, hazy. Mild aroma of cider and apple juice. Sweet mouthfeel, generic candy fruitiness, no much cider character left, nor the pit I was longing for; it has some of the flaws of my homebrew pyment, including some booze.
Good drink, hardly a cider.
Tried from Can on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:18

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Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy yellow color. The mango is evident, there is also pineapple, a touch of lychee, papaya. Once more the hopping clashes a bit, not as much as in the other ciders of the series, it creates the illusion of bitter citrus peel; the cider itself is lost.
Pleasant.
Tried on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:17

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy yellow color. Orange juice and some resiny bitterness, the cider character is completely masked. Some vegetable bitterness in the final. Decent drink, although somehow it tastes like flu remedy.
Tried on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:14

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Bright and cloudy vermilion. Mild aroma of berries and hop. Sweet, the cider flavor is now lost, it has a mild berry character and acidity, once more the hop powder seems to clash and to introduce some harsh note. Not so good.
Tried on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:13

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Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Dull cloudy golden color. The aroma is definitively minty. Good body strength; it’s sweet, some fruity candy, and vegetable notes, some mint. On the same line as a strawberry mojito.
Not too bad, but what a weird idea.
Tried from Can on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:10

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Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy blond and orange color. Aroma of berry candy. It tastes like an orange flavored flu drink, the bitterness of the hop doesn’t blend well with the tannins of the raspberries and the mild acidity, the final in particular is quite unpleasant.
Not a good one.
Tried from Can on 17 Jul 2017 at 21:08