West Avenue Cider House

Cidery in Freelton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 2 Venues

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84 Concession Rd 8 E, Freelton, L0R 1K0, Canada
Description
Welcome to West Avenue Cider. Where authenticity and tradition meet big city lights. Our cider has been awarded Best Cider in Ontario for several years running, and we hope you’ll have the chance to find out why. As small-batch producers of hard cider we care about the quality of the fruit that goes into our cider—and we always will. We only use the best ingredients, coupled with a slow fermentation process, so every batch of our cider is characteristic of the orchard’s terroir. Because heritage apples are rare in Canada, we planted thousands of trees in our Orchard to ensure that our Heritage Ciders remain authentic forever.

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7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
355mL can. Pours a clear light golden blonde. Apple skins, a bit of funk, some apple cores, and oak on the nose. Flavour has a lot of tart apple skins, a nice rustic funkiness, some woody oak; a little too heavy on the residual sugars. Pretty solid cider.
Tried from Can at West Avenue Cider House on 13 Aug 2026 at 00:15

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
473mL can, pours a clear blonde with a tiny white head. Aroma has gentle acidity, light-to-moderate apple juice, and light apple skins. Flavour is moderately sweet, with gentle apple skins, moderate sugars, and a touch of acidity. A bit too much toffee and sugars, but there’s a bit more complexity than average. It’s alright.
Tried from Can at West Avenue Cider House on 30 Jul 2026 at 05:02

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
473mL can. Pours clear pale blonde with a small white head. Apple skins, cores on the nose; a touch of tartness. Flavour is sweet with apples, a light touch of tart skins, some maple sugar. Not terrible, but not a good cider.
Tried from Can at West Avenue Cider House on 30 Jul 2026 at 01:01

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
750mL bottle, pours a clear dull dirty blonde, almost no head. Aroma reveals crisp apple skins, gentle white wine grape skins, and a touch of acidity. Flavour expresses the white wine grapes nicely along with the light-to-medium sweet, crisp apple skins, and very light acidity. Not super complex, but the grapes add a nice complexity to this. Solid.
Tried from Bottle at West Avenue Cider House on 24 Jul 2026 at 04:16

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Clear gold with minimal white head. Apple skins with some sweetness from the grapes, okay. ABV dangerously hidden.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2026 at 04:08

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
750mL bottle. Pours clear dirty blonde. Musty apple skins and fermented grapes on the nose. Flavour is nice and musty, nice apple skin character, funky, good grape skin character, gentle tartness. Off-dry. Really good cider.
Tried from Bottle at West Avenue Cider House on 24 Jul 2026 at 00:17

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Brassy amber colour. Has a nice cryo-extractionated icy apple aroma. On the palate, the creme-brulee pyro-torched apple skins blend well with tannins. Intense, deep acidity, complex apple. Very good stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2026 at 06:54

8.6/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 9 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
375ml @ Ryan's.
Aroma: nice baked apples, apple skins and seeds, sweet with a touch of acidity.
Taste: very intense, loads of apple, complex, apple seeds.
Overall: very nice ❤️
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2026 at 06:54

8.5/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
375mL bottle, pours a clear caramel. Nose is decadent, with rich toffee, brown sugar, and rich stewed apples. Flavour is rich, complex, and balanced, revealing tons of rich toffee, brown sugar, just enough tart, acidic apples, and some butterscotch to finish. Balanced, complex, exquisite. Lovely.
Tried from Bottle at West Avenue Cider House on 18 Jul 2026 at 06:54

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Poured from 375mL bottle. Clear amber gold with no head. Nice treacle character, very feint hint of clove, quite nice.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2026 at 06:39