Alpenfire Cider - Keeved Cider (750 mL)
Alpenfire Cider - Keeved Cider (750 mL)
Alpenfire Cider's Keeved is a limited release, small batch cider from the cidery's Burnt Branch Reserve Series. Alpenfire's Burnt Branch Series is mostly reserved for their own Cider Club members and for pouring at their orchard based tasting room in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. Snag this while you can!
This cider is a first on many levels for Alpenfire. It's a single-variety cider made 100% from Bulmers Norman apples - a variety they hadn't previously worked with. Bulmers Norman is an English cider bittersweet apple variety beloved in the cider world for its floral flavors, mild sweetness and astringency. It's also Alpenfire's first keeved cider. Keeving is an almost magical method for producing cider, traditionally used by both English and French cider producers. This true-to-style keeved cider is sweeter than most of Alpenfire's ciders. Simply put, Keeving is a process to preserve sweetness, build carbonation and add clarity without pasteurization, adding sugar, chemicals, or CO2. To accomplish this, Alpenfire removed nutrients from the juice during fermentation. They did this via biomass reduction utilizing pectins naturally found in apples.
Tasting Notes: The result is a delightful, slightly sweet cider. The sweetness is offset by a nice tannic quality (medium-plus). Flavor notes of fresh pressed apple juice, and apple skin - like biting into a fresh apple - with a flush of tannins and tropical melon, guava, candy peach, and sweet pear. Enjoy!
About Alpenfire Cider: Alpenfire was one of Washington State's first commercial cideries when they opened in 2006. For two decades since then, they've been very consistently releasing some of the finest craft ciders in North America. Alpenfire was also the first American cidery to obtain a certified organic designation. Their family's estate orchard in Port Townsend on the Olympic Penninsula includes around 1,000 English, French, and Heirloom apple trees. Operated by Bear and Nancy Bishop, and their son Phillipe - to the Bishop family organic is not an option but a necessity - a necessity that keeps them in touch with nature and helps to create the kind of future they want for their family and the planet.
Alpenfire is usually Erik's answer to the question "which cidery is your favorite?".
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale: Semi-Dry
- Tannins: Medium-Plus
- Acidity: Medium
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Bulmer’s Norman
- Features: Single-Varietal Cider and Organic
- ABV: 6.3%
- Format: 750 mL Bottle
- Shipping available across U.S.
- In stock, ready to ship
- Inventory on the way
