Lake City Cider

Cidery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Lake City Cider

Contact
35 Portland St, Dartmouth, B2Y 1H1, Canada
Subsidiaries
Lake City Cider owns 1 brewery:
Description
A place that makes authentic cider people haven’t had before. A place that makes everyone feel welcome and safe as soon as they step in the door. A place that’s a living love letter to Dartmouth. That’s what came into view when we first pictured what we wanted Lake City Cider to be.

And that’s exactly what we’ve created. With an honest, transparent approach to making awesome ciders, we connect our guests with local suppliers that make our flavours possible—like crisp apples from Stirling Farms and wild blueberries from Oxford, NS. We don’t do what’s easy or expected. We do what feels right, and what works for our fans, friends, and extended Dartmouth family.

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5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Lake City Cider. Pours clear pale ruby. Sweet red apple skins on the nose. Flavour has red apple skins and a thin balding patch where the beer is, providing dead grass and soggy malts. For an internal collaboration I was expecting this to be a bit better integrated.

Tried from Draft at Lake City Cider on 21 Dec 2025 at 00:00


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap at Lake City Cider. Pours clear blonde. Crisp and juicy pears on the nose. Flavour has loads of juicy pears. Not much depth here, but the pears are very well-expressed. Not bad.

Tried from Draft at Lake City Cider on 20 Dec 2025 at 23:51


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Lake City Cider. Pours clear pink-blonde. Very light apple skins on the nose. Flavour has light apple skins, herbal grass. It's fine, though a pretty unimpressive cider.

Tried from Draft at Lake City Cider on 20 Dec 2025 at 23:46


5.3
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap at Lake City Cider. Pours clear pinkish blonde. Sweet red apple skins on the nose. Flavour has red apple skins, some cinnamon spice. Only vague hints of watermelon. Too many excess sugars. Not a very good cider.

Tried from Draft at Lake City Cider on 20 Dec 2025 at 23:39


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

750ml (thx, Renny!) @ SF.
Aroma: some apples, lightly sweet.
Taste: a bit dry, apples, clean, crispy.
Overall: not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 05:30


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pale yellow. The aroma is quite candyish, actually. It's pale. It's light, off-dry, with a mellow apple. I don't necessarily see much in this - too eating apple, not bringing much to the table.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 05:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from 750mL bottle (2024 vintage). Clear pale blonde with quickly dissipating white head. Soft sweet apple, simple, basic, okay.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 05:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750mL bottle, pours a clear colour with a small white head. Aroma is faint, with light champagne-like effervescence and a touch of crisp apple skins. Flavour is mostly dry, but there is some gentle residual sweetness and light champagne-like effervescence. Very simple, clean, and has a nice sparkling quality. Decent but nothing more.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2025 at 05:27


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

750mL bottle. Pours clear pale, pale gold. Clean, but fairly gentle apples on the nose. Flavour has clean, crisp apple. Some slightly tannic skins. It's clean, semi-dry. Nothing special, but still okay.

Tried from Bottle at Lake City Cider on 11 Sep 2025 at 01:33


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap at the cidery. Pours clear pale reddish pink. Gentle red apple skins and a berry sweetness. Flavour has red apple skins and a berry fruitiness. It's okay.

Tried from Draft at Lake City Cider on 10 Aug 2025 at 15:24