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Revel started in 2014 as a solo passion project. Imagine our excitement when it turned out that, hey, lots of folks are fermentation enthusiasts!

By 2022, our team was seven people strong — with over 1000 cases of Revel bottles and cans shipped to discerning drinkers every month.

Our characterful native yeast fermentations explore the endless flavours Ontario has to offer. Combining farm-grown and foraged fruits, discovering what the fermentation process yields, and aiming to bring out the best of each ingredient is what makes us excited to come to work every day. (Well, that, and all the incredible smells.)
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8.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(750ml bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear bright gold with a rapidly fizzing white head and active bubbles. Aroma is totally wild, surprisingly sweet and like baked goods; rendolent in almond and cinnamon and dates in warm dough, with fairly intense floral perfume and golden plum backbeats bringing sweet-tart vibes coupled with a little yellow apple and a blanket of wet wood and hay funk. Flavour is a tad less sweet and pastry-inflected than the nose but still lots of baked cinnamon and almond buns, but with nice lightly sweet and moderately acidic yellow plum, deep perfumed chamomile, nice textural apple base, soft to moderate tannin and a big return of the cinnamon/almond and sweet baked buns vibe in the finish, funk quite restrained on the tongue. Light to medium body, oily, nice active carbonation when opened. Sensational notes from the chamomile, I definitely wasn't expecting something bordering on pastry cider. Cool!
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2021 at 14:58

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours lightly hazed deep gold with a few floaters due to my lack of care, rapidly fizzing whitish head that dissipates and rebuilds. Aroma is not super punchy for some reason, but flavour is much fuller. Notes of a mix of red and a few yellow apples, something pear-adjacent in the finish, lightly 'sweet' in flavour but on a quite dry actual body, definitely some herbal/minty tones coming through, smooth skin tannins, light astringency, a little citrus peel, not-quite-spicebox that I can't place in the bone-dry finish. Lovely active filling pét-nat carb, creamy fizz, light body that drinks bigger. An interesting cider for sure, the complexity and depth of the natural apples reveal themselves in the attack on the tongue. Wish the aroma matched!
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2021 at 22:04

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop) Pours clear deep gold with a rapidly fizzing and re-establishing white head. Aroma is sweet, savoury and musky apples, almost caramelized hints but also a clear minerality, storage apple-like musty woodsiness, quite some barnyard/hayloft funk, suggestions of tannic depth. Flavour is bone dry throughout the sip, certainly quite a savoury apple, high minerality, musty and very present but fine tannins, some grapefruit pith, very dry mineral finish, not super-fruity at all. Medium-bodied, oily, mouth-filling bottle condition carbonation. A bit of an atypical cider but a very interesting and surprisingly drinkable one despite its 'brusque' character.
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2021 at 19:25

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
750ml on Phill's deck. Appearance: hazy straw with a weak head due to the high carbonation. Aroma: sweet baked apples. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good one.
Tried on 22 May 2021 at 03:26

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle (2018 version). Hazy gold, fair bit of sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Dry, huge carbonation, apple skin, a bit of funk, very mild alcohol notes. Pretty good.
Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2021 at 03:21

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
750mL bottle, explodes upon opening and retains a lot of action for a long duration, and there's tons of sediment floating everywhere. Pours it a hazy pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is full of barnyard funk, crisp apple skins, and champagne-like effervescence. Flavour is bone dry, with an intense champagne-like effervescence replete with very high carbonation, followed by wild yeast, lots of barnyard funk, and some leather. There's maybe a touch of residual sweetness on the finish, while retaining that intense carbonation. Unusual but beautifully made. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2021 at 03:16

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Very effervescent cloudy gold with a bubbly head. Light cooked apple and baking spice. Insanely carbonated and some cooked apple with a fizzy finish. Carbonation is overwhelming and distracting. Lots of booze in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2021 at 03:16

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(750ml 2019 bottle from the cidery webshop - uses lemon thyme and not lemon verbena now) Pours clear salmon pink with a loose white head that fades but has a little revival. Aroma is heavy on fresh lightly tart aromatic early strawberries, floral bright apples, light citrusy accents, herbal freshness though not loads of thyme per se. Flavour is light sweet and light tart, again nice fresh spring strawberries and smooth floral apples, bright citrus and herb/leafy accents, no plastic strawberry off flavours, light bittering astringency that couples apple tannin and herbs, smooth fruity finish, hint of bitterness. Light body, active carbonation, slightly slick. Very refreshing stuff, good fruit flavours, not too delicate nor in your face. Perfect summer's day joint.
Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2021 at 20:51

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(750ml clear glass bottle from the cidery webshop - no indication of version beyond the special bottle) Pours nearly clear bright gold with a rapidly dissipating white head. Aroma is lightly honeyed semi-tart apple with quite some dephty, a lot of soft floral and herbal notes, subtle wood, light funk, quite delicate on the whole but more smooth than the normal version. Flavour is very lightly sweet and moderately tart apple, somewhere between fresh and baked, wildflower honey, soft herbs, very smooth apple tannins, almost a green apple acidity in the later parts of the sip, slightly lactic, low funk but subtle yeast breadiness, nice floral apple finish with a touch of drying wood giving a white wine vibe. Light to medium body, silky, smooth light bottle condition carbonation. Compared to the normal version of Time & Place, this version is smoother and more balanced with less prominent yeasty character, with a lovely pure apple character.
Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2021 at 18:53

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(750ml 2020 bottle from the cidery webshop) Don't think this is rateable but it's here so... Pours lighly hazed pale straw with an instantly fizzing head of white foam, active bubbles and no lace. Aroma of passionfruit, mangosteen, lychee, berry candy, a touch of peach, white wine vibes obviously, a little funk. Flavour is following the nose really, juicy floral tropical fruit with the passionfruit and lychee vibes to the fore, light but zippy white wine acidity, smooth saline minerality, background of berry candy, subtle grape skin tannic grip, floral tropical aftertaste. Light bodied, filling active carbonation. Super refreshing beverage, again I don't think this is rateable because it's not a cider but RB is the wild west these days anyway. Drinks very much like a really damn good wine spritzer, all the best parts of tropical Sauv blanc in a chuggable sparkling package.
Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2021 at 21:32