Review of Austin Eastciders Texas Honey cider.  It is my first time trying anything from this cidery.

Cider:  Texas Honey
Cidery:  Austin Eastciders
Cidery Location:  Austin TX
ABV:  5.0%
How Supplied:  6 and 12 packs of of 12oz cans (and draft)
Style:  American craft cider from dessert & bittersweet apples, with honey

 

Availability:  year round in Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of the Northeast (see their cider locator here)

Cider Description:  Austin Eastciders Texas Honey Cider is a blend of bittersweet apples and dessert apples with Texas honey to create a delicious cider with a hint of sweet.

Cidery Description:  Could we move to an apple producing region, grow our own apples and make cider? Sure, but it wouldn’t be the delicious and complex cider we make today in good ol’ Texas. The most important thing to us is sourcing the best cider apples and using only high-quality natural ingredients.

See here for more info.  They have a taproom in Austin Texas.

Price:  ~$2 / can ? (runs $8.99 / six pack)
Where Bought:  Total Wine
Where Drank:  home
How Found:  my husband picked this up for me while in Texas for business

First Impression:  Light straw yellow hue.  Low carbonation.  Smells of sweet apple with a hint of honey.

Tasting Notes:  On the drier side of semi-sweet.  Medium bodied.  Low tartness and acidity.  No bitterness, sourness, tannins, or funk.  Notes of sweet rich apple and honey with hints of apricot and floral.  Quick finish.  Moderate flavor intensity.  Moderate apple flavor.  High sessionability.  Low to moderate complexity.

My Opinion:  I really enjoyed this.  Nice flavor, with more complexity than I was expecting, and a perfect amount of sweetness.  I’m curious what percentage of the mix the bittersweet cider apples were, as it seemed slightly richer than I’d expect using only dessert apples, but the price point seems low for much to be used.  Speaking of price, their ciders are much less than the going rate for similar ciders here in the Seattle area, by a few dollars per six pack.

Most Similar to:  This reminded me some of Finnriver Honey Meadow, Tieton Lavender Honey, and Seattle Cider Olympic Honey.

Closing Notes:  I have their Pineapple cider to try next.

Have you tried Austin Eastciders?  What did you think?