Citizen Cider

Top choice in Burlington


Tucked into an industrial-chic building with painted concrete floors and long wooden tables, this homegrown success story uses tankfuls of apples trucked in from Vermont orchards to make its ever-growing line of hard ciders. Taste test a flight of five for $7, including perennial favorites such as the ginger-and-lemon-peel-infused Dirty Mayor, or go for one of the inventive cider-based cocktails.


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