Raven's Moon Craft Cidery
Cidery
in
Courtenay,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Blue Moon Estate Winery & Ciderworx
Contact
4905 Darcy Rd, Courtenay, V9J 1R5, Canada
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tart, light juicy character. Not bad, not much complexity but I appreciate the tartness.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2024
at 03:43
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a clear almost water colour. Aroma has soft ginger and crisp apple skins — pretty simple. Flavour is simple, with subtle ginger spice, mineraly notes, and crisp apple. No good at all. Way too mineraly and lacking complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2024
at 07:17
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2024, pours a clear pale blonde with a small white head. Aroma has some tart apple core and mineraly notes. Flavour is somewhat acidic, with light apple core, moderate acidity, and mineraly notes. Very mineraly. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2024
at 07:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500 ml bottle. Pours a bright light gold with lots of carbonation. Aromas of fresh cut apples and a little citrus. Flavors of same. Dry. Not really getting any “wild” yeast except maybe some subtle notes in the finish. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2023
at 01:01
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2023, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out artificial ginger and crisp apple skins. Flavour is much the same, with weird ginger notes, sweet earthy apples and muddled dirtiness. Not very on target. Jumbled and messy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2023
at 01:54
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2023, pours a clear blonde with a tiny white head. Aroma brings out all sorts of weird jumbled spices, bergamot and crisp apple skins. Flavour is much the same, with a jumbled mix of spices, light bergamot, and earthiness. Jumbled and messy. Not a good product.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2023
at 01:53
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle sampled at BC Cider Fest 2023, pours a clear blonde, no head. Aroma brings out crisp apple skins and a hint of earthy bourbon that's pretty faint. Flavour is sort of bourbony in the sense of being hot, with fairly dry apple skins. Poor use of the barrels and a weak base cider equals a pretty lame end product.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2023
at 01:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500 ml bottle. Pours a garnet red. Aromas of black currents, salal, red grapes, and dull apples. Bigger flavors if same. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2022
at 22:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at The Cider House, pours a clear bright red with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright raspberries, moderate apples, and light sweetness. Flavour is bright and very fruity, with deep raspberries, some earthiness, and lots of apple core. Lots of earthy raspberries on the finish with fairly low residual sweetness. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Nov 2021
at 23:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Nice deep pink body, okay foam, soft smooth fruitiness on the nose of no distinction. Flavour is nice floral citrus, apple hints, round and perhaps that's the tayberry talking but I don't really know what a tayberry tastes like. Crisp finish. Decent enough.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2020
at 05:39