Woodchuck Fall Harvest
The fall harvest brings farmers and communities together to celebrate another year of fruitful labor. It is a time of shorter days, cooler nights, and great apples. This cider has a complex and elegant character full of apple, cinnamon, and nutmeg balanced out with a hint of American white oak. A true taste of the season.
3.2
159 reviews
Middlebury, United States
Community reviews
This was poured into a pint glass and a wine glass.
This one’s got the same size head in both glasses (about a finger and a half’s worth of bubbly and subtle foaminess here and there). With a clear amber to hazed over yellow/orange color, there’s still a decent transparency allowing a ton of bubbles to surface gracefully.
The smell had a unique blend that I’m not used to smelling for most ciders I’ve had. It goes a little something like this: a little cinnamon, nutmeg, and a light ginger give it a slight spiciness. The woodiness that slightly comes through seemed to be just a tad leaning towards the smoky side.
The taste takes those previously mentioned flavors and basically just coats the apple flavoring already in it.
On the palate, this one sat just a tad heavier than most ciders I’ve had, but not too much as its within the light to medium range just mostly closer to the medium side. This fairly sessionable cider had a decent harshness that ends up becoming slightly tame (did I just say that? tame carbonation in a cider, no hell has not frozen). This mouthfeel just shows that not all ciders do not pummel my tongue into submission.
Overall, its about freaking time I find a cider I like. Best one I’ve ever had, quite possibly.
Hands down one of my favorite ciders. Hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and maple. Tastes great on a nippy day by the fire. Reminds me of all the wonderful things about fall. Not to sweet. Love this cider.
Pours amber. Smell is vanilla and apples and is quite sweet. Taste is sweet apples and vanilla. Some spices like cinnaman nutmeg, etc... mixed in but slightly behind the stronger vanilla flavor. Medium body and crisp and bubbly. Taste is good, but a strong flavor and not something I want a ton of.
This cider has a nice aroma of cinnamon and vanilla aroma too it. The taste follows the aroma with a strong apple taste added too it. The color is a dark golden shade and was very good.
Couple year old bottle. Pours thin, clear amber. Lots of spice on the nose. Taste is cinnamon apple. But not overly sweet. Only tried chilled, but seems like this would be great warm.
I love Woodchuck Cider. I love their amber cider and decided to give this one a try. I’m glad I did. It’s a sweet tasting cider, the maple syrup is the most noticeable. The overall taste is like a caramel apple. I enjoyed it.
This cider smells like ripe apples and cinnamon. The flavor is very sweet and the cinnamon obvious. Light to medium bodied, it’s a tasty cider that I could see being good in cool weather.
Bottle, not fresh by date but still smells new. Nose is cinnamon, light nutmeg, medium wood (oak rather than pine), sticky maple syrup and vanilla, love this, extremely autumnal and captures well the spirit of many foods and drinks of that time. Clear dark golden with medium carb and and ephemeral beige head. Taste is sweet, sticky medium body, no bitterness, and spices rule the day, principally cinnamon with only a swatch of nutmeg. Oak is calming and smooth. Would absolutely not want more than one of these a season, but it’s plenty nice as a singleton.
Clear dark golden with a maple-y nose of sticky sugar and a wee bit of pecan, and sweet fleshy apple, dipped in a maple cinnamon sauce. Flavor is candy sweet with cinnamon and caramel, loads of candy sweet apple, with a backing of maple and pecan. A bit cloy sweet but very dessert like.
Bottle. Straight from the bottle. The aroma is apples and cinnamon. The taste is apple juice, cinnamon, and dry spices.
Bottled. Brown as an unfiltered apple cider. A bit more apple juice in the nose than the Granny Smith I just had. I’m smelling the spices too, but they kind of have the ring of "natural flavor." I started this before checking the label closely and could easily notice the cinnamon spices. So it more or less fits in with the current flood of pumpkin pie spice beverages. Even so, it’s a bit of a dare for a mass-marketed cider.
Dark clear copper. Crisp. Cinnamon and nutmeg work very well. Refreshing and warming, but not hot. Complex apple combination. I can’t quite place which apples are used. Thanks Meagan.
A decent spices cider, a bit too sweet however, probably has added sugar and not just fructose from the apples, too bad
On the edge of "too sweet" on account of the cinnamon and vanilla, but the smell is excellent, woody and memorable.
Drank from the bottle but design is nice.
Good apple taste hinting towards caramel.
It’s a long story... I bought a 6 of Sierra Nevada Celebration ale, thinking it would be great, but it was too bitter for my tastes by far. So, I thought I could save the remaining 5 by mixing it with hard cider. My only experience with ciders was years ago, when we used to mix Guinness and Woodpecker cider, a great combo. Well, I got Woodchuck Granny Smith to mix with the Celebration, and that was pretty palatable, the cider being a bit thin, but decent. However, the last bottle in the sixer was not Granny Smith, but this spicy Fall cider. Yuck! Apple pie in a glass. No thanks.
Bottle pour. Translucent copper with lots of bubbles. Aroma has a heavy wood and caramel presence. Apple is there, too, of course, but that wood andvanilla really come through strong.
bubblegum, clove, vanilla, amber, clear, minimal head, heavy cloying sweetness, light body, creamy, average carbonation,
smells like bubblegum with a touch of cinnamon, which isn’t necessarily bad...taste hits you much more with cinnamon and spice...but not overly so...not too sweet...right on the edge though...quite good strong flavor...very good for one, but perhaps a bit heavy and sweet for more than that
12oz bottle. Pours an amber color with soft carbonation. Aroma is apple with cinnamon and perhaps other spices. Sweet with prominent cinnamon flavors. Somewhat more body than average. Pretty good.
I’m not usually a fan of hard ciders, but I enjoyed the cinnamon apple flavor this had to offer.
its kind of overly sweet like a lot of woodchuck ciders. not the worst cider ive ever had but not the best
Sweet but not thick. Apple on the forefront with cinnamon on the end and an exhale of nutmeg. My favorite woodchuck hands down.
12 oz bottle shared. Gold and clear, no head. Apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, spice. Smooth and easy to drink
12 oz. Clear cider look with a few bubbles that cling to the side of the glass. Pleasant aroma of apple pie and the spices. Taste has some apple bubblegum and too much cinnamon and nutmeg, but is drinkable. Light-medium body is tingly and just barely dry enough with a nice hint of toasted oak on the finish. Good, but could have been much better with about half the spice dose to allow more apple and oak presence.
bottle. golden with minimal head. very sweet apple and a ton of cinnamon and other spices. i dug it, but i can see why someone who is more purist about ciders would absolutely hate this.
Very strange clear orange pour. Smells like dubble bubble. Taste is dupple bubble with cinamon apple.
Bottle from Blue Max, aromas of apples and cinnamon, almost get a bubblegum aroma. Taste is overly sweet apple juice and some nutmeg and cinnamon spice, it's ok.
tasted at Brew Do - smells like apple pie, way too much cinnamon at start of taste, then quickly goes to sweet in a somewhat sickening way
Bottle. Medium golden pour and a substantial aroma of cinnamon, apple, and little nutmeg. Right off the bat this one is letting you know it’s different from others. Flavor is fairly intense of pumpkin pie-like spice, sweet apples, and vanilla. Leans sweet, but not over done, and seems appropriate for the theme of this. Easy to drink; a really good one, especially for the season, and one to come back to many times. I also love the reasonable price of this brewers ciders.
Taste like like something you would drink standing on a back porch on a Saturday afternoon in fall with a small fire pit in the yard burning raked leaves, while taking a sip you stare off into the tree line at the edge of your yard and admire the fall colors.
Dark amber color, smells like apple cider with a hint of spices, taste like spiced cider.
Wish it was made year round!!