Carriage House Ciders

Cidery in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Carriage House Ciders

Established in 2020

Contact
920 North Shore Drive, Benton Harbor, MI, 49022, United States
Description
Carriage House is a love story

A love of traditional cider made with natural ingredients from mother nature. A love of Michigan and every one of its apple orchards and everyone in its community. A love of the flavor our cider brings out of good food.

We celebrate each apple’s uniqueness, whether it’s a Hoople’s Antique Gold, Grime’s Golden, Dabinett, Foxwhelp—or any of the abundance of varieties we use to create a different, fuller flavor cider each with an expression all its own.

Falling in love usually involves a leap of faith, a heap of daring, and a dash of crazy.

We’re crazy enough to select and prepare every apple of the thousands that go into our ciders. To use wild yeast that's found on the skins of the apples, leaving nature in control. To use oak barrels for fermenting and aging to lend flavor and tannins to our cider. And crazy enough to restore and remake a 137-year-old carriage house into a cidery.

We’re daring enough to bring European-style cider to American tables because we believe our customers are daring enough to try and embrace something unique.

We take a leap of faith with every batch and bring only the most delightful, interesting ciders to our market.

How about them apples?

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7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pours light gold. Aroma is farmhouse funk, a hint of smoke, and apples. The dry flavor is funky and subtly smoky with tart apples. It’s a good, rather unusual cider.
Tried at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:23

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours clear light gold. Smells of honey and apples. It tastes of apples, honey, butter, and tequila. There’s a little sweetness, perhaps more than the others that I tried. Really tasty.
Tried at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:20

7.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 7 Overall 8
Pours pale gold. It has a rich apple and farmhouse aroma. The dry flavor is fairly intense with very tart apples and farmhouse funk. Very nice. This one was my favorite of the six in our flights.
Tried at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:18

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Pours lightly hazy pink. Smells of apples and hibiscus. The flavor is dry, maybe semi dry. Light hibiscus, tart apple, and a little farmhouse must.
Tried from Bottle at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:15

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pours clear gold. It has an apple forward aroma with mild farmhouse funk. Flavor is dry with a lightly sweet apple character and mild mustiness.
Tried at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:09

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours a cloudy very pale yellow. Aroma is farmhouse funk and apples. It tastes dry with tart apples, a slight floral note, and a hint of sweetness. The hops are subtle, adding a touch of bitterness in the finish. Lively carbonation. Very good.
Tried from Bottle at Carriage House Ciders on 07 Sep 2025 at 05:07