Spiced Apple

Spiced Apple is a cinnamon cider poured on tap at the Loveland and Fort Collins tasting rooms of Sweet Heart Brands, the Northern Colorado company behind Sweet Heart Winery and the Climb Hard, Patriot Press and Sweetheart cider brands.

Award

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Brewery Description

No description of Spiced Apple beyond its listing and a cinnamon note on the tasting room menu was found.

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The menu notes only that the cider contains cinnamon. The house cider on the same menu is described as one that "blends apple varieties for a crisp, refreshing cider," but the menu does not say whether Spiced Apple shares that base (Sweet Heart Winery: menu).

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the GABF 2026 style categories say Botanical or Spiced Cider "focuses on ciders with added botanicals (including herbs, spices, hops, vegetables, chilis)," at 3 to 10 percent ABV. The Brewers Association beer style guidelines carry no cider entries. Cinnamon is a spice addition; no ABV is published to compare.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Sweet Heart Brands is in Loveland, CO.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website.

Related

• Brewery: Sweet Heart Brands

Links

• Beer page on brewery site
• Sweet Heart Brands
• Sweet Heart Winery
• Climb Hard Cider
• Sweetheart Cider
• GABF 2026 style categories

Gaps

• Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Water, Process. Checked sweetheartbrands.com, sweetheartcider.com, climbhardcider.com, greatamericanbeerfestival.com, sweetheartwinery.com, sweetheartwinery.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: ABV, IBU. Checked sweetheartbrands.com, sweetheartcider.com, climbhardcider.com, greatamericanbeerfestival.com, sweetheartwinery.com, sweetheartwinery.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• Field pass 2026-10-13: Climb Hard beer catalog links that brand to Sweet Heart Brands and lists Spiced Apple Cider at 5.8% ABV with N/A IBU, but does not explicitly identify the medal entry's house brand; that candidate ABV was not transferred. Named hops remain unpublished.
• The only published trace of the cider is the Sweet Heart Winery tap menu, which lists Spiced Apple at Loveland and Fort Collins with a cinnamon note.
• Climb Hard Cider (owned by Sweet Heart Brands) and Sweetheart Cider sites list no Spiced Apple, so which house brand it is sold under is not established.
• ABV, apple varieties and sweetness are not published; the menu advises asking staff.
• No 2026 medal announcement was found on any Sweet Heart site.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the site was read; it has no Spiced Apple description.