Review of Big B’s Lazy Daze Lemon Hard Cider, their dry hard cider mixed with their lemonade.  I’ve also tried their Grizzly Brand (bourbon barrel aged) and Pear Supply ciders.  My husband picked this up for me in Colorado.

Cider:  Lazy Daze Lemon Hard Cider
Cidery:  Big B’s
Cidery Location:  Hotchkiss Colorado
ABV:  4.7%
How Supplied:  500ml clear glass bottles and 12oz cans
Style:  American Organic craft cider mixed with lemonade (which includes sugar)

 

Availability:  Only in Colorado,  although they take phone orders to ship to customers when the state allows it.

Cider Description:  Big B’s Hard Lemonade is made by combining our Orchard Original Hard Cider with one of Big B’s most popular selling juices, our Orchard Recipe Lemonade.  It’s a perfect marriage between dry cider, sweet and tart lemonade. Ultra refreshing and amazingly crisp!

Cidery Description:  Big B’s Hard Ciders – Local, Organic, Delicious.  Big B’s proudly handcrafts American Farmstead Hard Ciders in small batches using only organic apples, hand picked at the peak of ripeness.  Our orchard and tasting room is located in the North Fork Valley on the Western Slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Big B’s has an organic farm market and tasting room in Hotchkiss CO for their juices and hard cider (first sold in 2011), which re-opens for the season in May 2016.

Price:  $4.98
Where Bought:  Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder CO
Where Drank:  home
How Found:  I read about this online and put it on a list for my husband to check for.

First Impression:  Smells like lemonade.  Lemonade dark straw yellow hue.  Low carbonation.

Tasting Notes:  Semi-sweet to Semi-dry.  Medium bodied.  Fizzy mouthfeel.  Moderate tartness and acidity.  No bitterness, sourness, funk, or tannins.  The flavor is lemonade with a bit of baked apple.  Quick finish length.  Low apple flavor.  High sessionability.

My Opinion:  Yum!  This is simple, but I enjoyed it.  Perfect for summer and almost too easy to drink.  I’m surprised they kept so much of the lemonade flavor despite the addition of hard cider.  I also liked the bit of apple flavor.

Most Similar to:  Any other hard lemonade.  My other favorite is Crabbie’s Cloudy Alcoholic Lemonade, but I think I now like this one better.  Alcopops are becoming quite popular.  Another cider based one I’ve tried is Elemental’s NW Atomic Root Beer.

Closing Notes:   Too bad this is only sold in Colorado, or else it would be a summer staple in my house.  They recently released it in cans too.

Have you tried Big B’s?  What did you think?