An “Apple Cider”, is an alcoholic beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of apple juice and having an actual alcoholic strength between 1.5 and 15%. “Light” Hard Ciders are generally between 1.5 - 7% abv while “Strong” Hard Ciders are generally between 7 - 15% abv. Strong Hard Ciders are often seen under the label “Apple Wine”. Ciders can be flat (tranquille) or effervescent, either natural or carbonated. A traditional cidre bouché is a naturally effervescent cider on lees whose lees have not been removed from the bottle and has undergone fermentation in the bottle. The “Crab Apple Cider” is also included in this style, since the crab apple is a fruit from the same family as the orchard apple and offer a similar finished product. Amber, Mistelle, Pommeau and Apple Must (non-alcoholic cider) are not Ciders.
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Name | Ratings | Score | | |
1 | Rhyne Cyder R
Rhyne Cyder Sonoma, California | 13 | 3.86 | Find | |
2 | Sea Cider Rumrunner (2006 - Newfoundland Screech Rum) R
Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse Central Saanich, British Columbia | 46 | 3.81 | Find | |
3 | Angry Orchard The Muse R
Angry Orchard (Boston Beer Co.) Walden, New York | 72 | 3.71 | Find | |
4 | Antidoot Na De Val R
Antidoot Wilde Fermenten Kortenaken, Belgium | 14 | 3.69 | Find | |
5 | Crispin Steel Town 5th Anniversary R
Crispin Cider Company (Molson Coors) Colfax, California | 32 | 3.68 | Find | |
6 | Shacksbury Lost and Found R
Shacksbury Shoreham, Vermont | 13 | 3.67 | Find | |
7 | Millstone Cellars Farmgate R
Millstone Cellars Monkton, Maryland | 36 | 3.64 | Find | |
8 | Crispin Stagger Lee R
Crispin Cider Company (Molson Coors) Colfax, California | 53 | 3.63 | Find | |
9 | Oliver's / Angry Orchard Gold Rush #5 R
Oliver's Cider Hereford, England | 22 | 3.56 | Find | |
10 | La Face Cachée de la Pomme Degel Reserve R
Domaine Neige (Pomdial Inc.) Hemmingford, Quebec | 10 | 3.55 | Find | |
11 | Cydr Smykan Forfiter R
Slow Flow Group Raciechowice, Poland | 12 | 3.54 | Find | |
12 | 8 Wired Dry Oaked Sparkling Cider R
8 Wired Brewing Warkworth, New Zealand | 45 | 3.54 | Find | |
13 | Millstone Cellars Vin De Pomme R
Millstone Cellars Monkton, Maryland | 13 | 3.5 | Find | |
14 | Millstone Cellars Sidra Americana R
Millstone Cellars Monkton, Maryland | 20 | 3.49 | Find | |
15 | Crispin Bird on a Wire R
Crispin Cider Company (Molson Coors) Colfax, California | 60 | 3.46 | Find | |
16 | Du Minot Domaine du Minot R
Cidrerie du Minot Hemmingford, Quebec | 19 | 3.45 | Find | |
17 | Revel Cider Mithras (-2020) R
Revel Cider Co. Guelph, Ontario | 11 | 3.45 | Find | |
18 | Crispin Artisanal Reserve The Bohemian R
Crispin Cider Company (Molson Coors) Colfax, California | 35 | 3.44 | Find | |
19 | Lindheim Farmer's Reserve: Cider Brux 2013 R
Lindheim Ølkompani Gvarv, Norway | 10 | 3.44 | Find | |
20 | ÆppelTreow Kinglet Bitter Cider (2010-2018) R
ÆppelTreow Winery Burlington, Wisconsin | 15 | 3.42 | Find | |
21 | Reverend Nat's Sidra Bravo R
Reverend Nat's Hard Cider Portland, Oregon | 13 | 3.42 | Find | |
22 | Reverend Nat's Viva la Pineapple! R
Reverend Nat's Hard Cider Portland, Oregon | 12 | 3.41 | Find | |
23 | Bantam Wunderkind R
Bantam Cider Company Cambridge, Massachusetts | 18 | 3.4 | Find | |
24 | Michel Jodoin Le Pédoncule Sec R
Cidrerie Michel Jodoin Rougemont, Quebec | 14 | 3.4 | Find | |
25 | Sea Cider Pippins '07 R
Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse Central Saanich, British Columbia | 10 | 3.4 | Find | |