Seattle Cider Company has seen colossal growth in recent months. With the expansion of a new taproom and production space to open early this summer, distribution has also hit nearly double digit markets and demand for the ciders is on the rise. The team has sought...
Finnriver Farm and Cidery'’s Black Currant is a liqueur rooted in brandy, made by a farm-based cidery and masquerading as a fruit wine. Over in Chimacum, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the elixir is born of fermented organic black currant wine, fortified with...
A classic case of homebrewer going mainstream, Baird & Dewer Farmhouse Cider is the brain child of wine guru Zeb Dewer and farmer Trevor Baird’s Baird Family Orchard’s heirloom apple varieties. The Salem, Oregon label’s mission statement is to create...
There’s always an opportunity. After nearly 80 years of rich history in fruit production, BC Tree Fruits has entered a whole new industry—alcohol—with the launch of BC Tree Fruits Cider Company last month. The longtime cooperative represents more than 500 families...
Washington State is the largest producer of apples in the nation, so it’s no surprise that hard cider has taken off as the flourishing craft industry to watch. Year over year, hard cider sales across the United States are leaping up (sales increased by 89 percent...
Devoted to the basics of traditional cider—freshly pressed apple juice and yeast—three Summerland, British Columbia orchardists set out two decades ago to start Summerland Heritage Cider Co. Grafting cider varietals to their existing apple trees, the Summerland...
The fruit frontiersmen of Tieton Cider Works recently launched a line of cider tallboys—16-ounce pounders available in four-packs, dressed in a flashy uniform of a Washington state map with a capitol star for the fruit landmark of Yakima. To compete in the winning...
Major holidays for drinking: Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day… and International Star Wars Day! Since its first creation in the 1980s, this fan-created holiday held on May 4 (May the Fourth Be With You...) has grown to worldwide fame and practice....
Originally billed as cider for beer drinkers (with a completely hopped cider line-up to boot), two-year-old Seattle cidery Grizzly Ciderworks is growing up and growing out with an expanded offering. Take the Woodlander for instance, a wit-style cider, one of the...
About five miles east of Tacoma, Washington is Puyallup, a town best known for its fair—the largest annual privately run fair in the state and one of the largest in the United States, attracting more than one million people a year. Also known for its river-side...
