Style: Alternative Ferment

Finnriver Bottle Family: Sour Series

Sweetness: Semi-Dry, Final Gravity 1.007

Alcohol Percentage: 6.2% abv

Bottle Volume:  500 ml.

AROMA & FLAVOR

Floral and fruity from the honey, it drinks like Spring air. Properly tart, with body and depth, a pleasant twang from the Lactobacillus, and a gentle, bitter plum to finish the experience. 

AWARDS

2017 Bronze, Glintcap

APPLE & FRUIT VARIETIES

Fermented on the farm with a select blend of locally harvested apples from the Olympic Peninsula, local wild harvested plums and honey from Miss Bee Haven Apiary in Port Angeles.

CIDERMAKER NOTES

To make a sour cider is to welcome the wildness of nature into the cider barn — where the fruit of the harvest is gathered, introduced to select microorganisms renowned for stirring up delightful complexity, and then blended from tank and barrel. Sour ales are as old as brewing itself and we reach back in time to the wild multi-organism fermentation traditions developed over the centuries. The Plum Cyser is a bright and gentle sour— a lovely highlight of fruit and the honeyed work of our pollinators. The organic plums were macerated and fermented whole in the cider for a lovely compliment of acids and funk.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS

A crisp, refreshing cider— get it cold and take it to a picnic. Slide it into your beach bag and sip it with the sunset. Also a shoe-in for fresh green salads, grilled chicken breasts, artichoke remoulades, and anything with cucumbers.