Draft or pub-style ciders are beginning to have a presence on tap handles in the Northwest. Parkdale, Oregon's Hood Valley Hard Cider is one of the first in its area to produce the style. And a growing area is that—Hood River Valley now hosts eight cideries and...
North of Kelowna, British Columbia, you’ll come across the town of Vernon and home to one of the newest kids on the cider scene, The BX Press. A third generation farming family, Dave and Melissa (and their three young daughters) opened The BX Press earlier this...
The best are back, from wine, beer and spirits to travel, cider and more. Sip Northwest magazine is excited to release our third annual Best of the Northwest issue, showcasing the top travel spots, industry influencers, wine, beer, spirits, cider and more that are...
The Pacific Northwest is applauded for its craft beverage producers, but Atlas Cider Co. knows it is the fruits that these lands produce that own the show. Every bottle of Atlas hard cider is teeming with fruit locally grown in Oregon and Washington, and contains...
Let's start this out right—it is pronounced MET-how. Northeast Washington's Methow Valley is home to the eponymous Methow Valley Ciderhouse in Winthrop, Wash., where Richard and Lynne Wasson bought a soil-rich 15-acre property in 2004. With their hopes sent on...
Committed to producing true perry made from high quality Asian pears grown on Washington's Vashon Island, Nashi Orchards released its inaugural vintage perry in July. As one of the few perry makers in the world who use Asian pears, also known as "nashi" in their...
Isn't wordplay fun? Corvallis, Ore.,'s 2 Towns Ciderhouse thinks so and shows it with their limited release apricot cider, 'Cot in the Act. Each batch of the specialty cider is brewed with juice from 50 pounds of ripe apricots, making it a unique entity in the...
What happens when one of the world's hottest chili peppers meets a cold, crisp bottle of cider? Finnriver Farm & Cidery cider maker Chris Weir began experimenting with habanero heat during the winter of 2013, when the resulting Habanero Cider was featured at...
To call the Okanagan Valley’s Summerland Heritage Cider Co. a small scale cidery would be an overstatement. Nano-cidery, possibly. They currently produce just one cider, Tuesday’s Original, from their estate-grown cider apples, though more releases are in the works...
Abram Goldman-Armstrong has been making cider for more than half of his existence. From planting traditional cider trees in high school for Oregon's legendary (yet now defunct) inaugural cidery, White Oak Cider, to drinking liters of cider while in college in Cork...
