Revel Cider

Cidery in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Established in 2014

Contact
62 Dawson Rd, Guelph, N1L 1S8, Canada
Description
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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7/10
Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2023 at 22:13

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap. Murky amber orange. Dill and rose apple perfume. Soft applejuice, sparkly dry vanilla wood. Aftertaste is a bit sticky sweet.
Tried from Draft on 24 Feb 2023 at 19:29

6.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tap at Muted Horn. Murky rhubarb juice look. Grandma perfume nose. Medium light dry body, sparkly with a fun fizz. Rose, grape must, rhubarb (strangely), flowers, perfume retronasal. Interesting. --- Beer merged from original tick of Revel / Vine Arts Pen Pals on 24 Feb 2023 at 19:27 - Score: Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Tap at Muted Horn. Murky rhubarb juice look. Grandma perfume nose. Medium light dry body, sparkly with a fun fizz. Rose, grape must, rhubarb (strangely), flowers, perfume retronasal. Interesting.
Tried at Muted Horn on 24 Feb 2023 at 14:54

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(500ml bottle from the Revel webshop) Lightly hazed deep gold pour with a small white head that fades with spotty lace. Aroma is surprisingly vinous, white wine meets perry with just some sweeter undertones of pineapple, musky complex funk, some mixed pit fruit sweetness. Flavour is quite acidic and very pineapple-forward, an odd mix of the flavour of ripe pineapple with the tartness of unripe; there’s a touch of white wine vinegar about it, dusty yeast, light funk, lemon juice, some perry residual sweetness pops out as you adapt to the acidity, helping ‘dry’ the finish out a touch. Finish is still lactic tart though, with loads of fresh pineapple into the aftertaste. Light to medium bodied, slightly slick, quite softly carbonated. Unique stuff, I wasn't expecting a perry/saison to be the most acidic Revel bottling I've tried but there you have it. Rather enjoyable flavours though I'd have dialled the acid back a touch. Interestingly, pairing with oysters helped draw down the acidity and push pineapple forward.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Feb 2023 at 00:21

6/10
Tried on 11 Feb 2023 at 19:47

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a clear blonde with a medium white head. Aroma brings out a wonderful barnyard funk upfront, crisp apple skins, and some horse blanket. Flavour is bone dry, with lots of horse blanket, barnyard funk, tart apple core, champagne-like effervescence, and crisp apple skins. Bone dry, highly carbonated, and funky. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2023 at 01:30

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy blonde, pear, light citrus and floral notes, underlying grape skin. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2023 at 03:43

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
750ml @ Matt's new place. Appearance: cloudy blonde, looks like moonshine. Aroma: botanicals, barrel, fermented pears. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: quite pleasant.
Tried on 07 Jan 2023 at 03:41

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with almost no head. Aroma is very acidic, with tons of apple skins, a bit of white grape skins, and some floral notes. Flavour is nicely complex, with lots of funky apple skins, light grape skins, and wildflower notes. Fairly dry, with some apple/pear core on the finish. Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2023 at 03:39

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Slight haze green-yellow. Tart, earthy, nice perry note, some barrel, vinous accents and light florals. Great complexity. This is excellent. Rich honeyish finish.
Tried on 07 Jan 2023 at 03:38