Angry Orchard's hard ciders range (Ciderhouse Collection) include the following flavors and alcohol content.
Ciderhouse Collection - hard ciders produced in small batches, using traditional cider making apples from Italy and France and aged on oak.
Strawman ABV: 10%
Strawman combines a distinct blend of juices from culinary and bittersweet apples, and is aged on oak, resulting in a complex, wine-like cider with apple and citrus notes and an earthy finish.
Iceman ABV: 10%
Iceman uses the process of freezing the juice from culinary and bittersweet apples to produce a rich, complex and unique cider with a crisp apple taste and notes of caramel and toffee. The addition of oak-aging yields a smooth and pleasing vanilla character. The result is a perfectly balanced, full-flavored cider with clean apple notes and a lingered toffee finish.
The Muse ABV: 7.7%
The Muse is a bubbly, effervescent cider made from culinary and bittersweet apples and aged on French oak. It is sweet upfront with a juicy apple aroma and bright acidity with notes of clove and vanilla, and slightly drying on the finish.
Walden Hollow ABV: 8%
Walden Hollow is an annual vintage cider made with our cider maker’s choice of heirloom New York state apples varieties, including apples from the Angry Orchard in Walden, NY. The 2016 edition is a mildly tannic, off dry cider with intense apple aroma and notes of butterscotch and almond. The cider makers wanted to capture the essence of wild fermentation, but without the funkiness or sour qualities sometimes associated with the process.
See more of Angry Orchard's cider range below.
Core Ciders (available all year long):
Crisp Apple ABV: 5%
Angry Orchard Crisp Apple has a bright, crisp apple flavor, just like biting into a fresh apple. It is a perfect balance of sweetness and bright acidity from culinary apples and dryness of traditional cider making apples, resulting in a complex, yet refreshing, hard cider.
Green Apple ABV: 5%
Angry Orchard Green Apple has a bright, fresh apple aroma, with notes of honeydew melon and kiwi. This cider is slightly tart with balanced sweetness, reminiscent of a fresh green apple.
Easy Apple ABV: 4.2%
Angry Orchard Easy Apple is a refreshing and easy-to-drink hard cider. It is unfiltered with an apple-forward taste, slightly hazy appearance and a refreshingly dry finish. It never weighs you down, making it the perfect drink choice for those long, relaxing days.
Stone Dry ABV: 5.5%
ngry Orchard Stone Dry – the driest cider in Angry Orchard’s core collection – is our twist on traditional English dry ciders. This cider balances the acidity of culinary apples with the tannins of traditional cider making apples, for a cider that is clean, refreshing, and slightly puckering on the finish.
Seasonal Ciders (available from Spring through Summer and Fall through Winter):
Tapped Maple ABV: 5%
Angry Orchard Tapped Maple blends American culinary apples with maple syrup tapped from Vermont maple trees. The maple syrup – rich in flavor and natural maple sweetness – adds a delicate balance, creating a not-too-sweet cider with a strong maple-forward aroma, and full, round mouthfeel. This new seasonal style is perfect to enjoy around the dinner table or fire pit with friends during cooler months.
Cinnful Apple ABV: 5%
Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple is sweet with a slight heat. The juicy apple notes are complemented by cinnamon spice for a cider that is refreshing and smooth, yet warming. It's the perfect choice for the colder months and holiday drinking occasions ahead.
Summer Honey ABV: 5%
Angry Orchard Summer Honey is light and refreshing with a fruit-forward apple taste. Made with a touch of wildflower honey, this seasonal cider is bright and not overly sweet. It’s the perfect choice for warmer months.
Orchard’s Edge (their innovative line of ciders developed at the orchard):
Knotty Pear ABV: 6.5%
Knotty Pear’s main ingredient is juice from American apples, and also features pear juice, which adds a new dimension to the cider, creating a pleasantly dry flavor. Cardamom imparts a slight spicy flavor. With notes of citrus and mint, this cider showcases fresh acidity, lasting tannins, and a pleasantly dry finish from oak aging.
The Old Fashioned ABV: 6.5%
The Old Fashioned is made with a blend of American apples and is aged on oak with dried tart cherries, California grown navel orange peel, and charred bourbon barrel staves, offering citrus and cherry aromas with a bright apple flavor and slight vanilla notes. It has lasting tannins and a full, round mouthfeel.
They also have the Summer Variety Pack which already includes five of the abovementioned flavors (Crisp Apple, Easy Apple, Summer Honey, Stone Dry and Green Apple) plus the Elderflower style which offers a bright, fruity flavor that balances elderflower’s subtle floral notes and tropical fruitiness, reminiscent of lychee, pears and citrus.
If you are of legal drinking age and want to try a new drink utilizing Angry Orchard Hard Ciders, try filling a pint glass halfway with Samuel Adams Summer Ale, and then topping the rest of the pint up with the Crisp Apple flavor.
For your Ginger flavor, add ice to a pint glass, add 1 ounce of pineapple vodka and a squeeze of lime, and top with Angry Orchard Ginger.
Follow Angry Orchard on Twitter @AngryOrchard to find out when your favorite seasonal hard ciders are in stores.
Find amazing recipes for hard cider drinks including juicy sangria and a sparkling cranberry-spiced aperitif at Foodandwine.com.
Checking a cider's ABV (alcohol by volume) will give you a guide to how strong it us. The ABV tells you what percentage of the drink is made up of alcohol. For example, a cider with 7.5% ABV is 7.5% pure alcohol. The higher the percentage, the more alcohol in your drink.
Find out how to reduce the amount of cider you are drinking at Drinkaware.
Five pints of 4.5% cider would equal 13 units. Three pints of strong 7.5% cider would equal 12.9 units.