"Drink it, it's good," brags the front label of both ciders from Portland Cider Company. Upfront and simplistic, PCC has taken a blatant approach at marketing their ciders, slightly touch-in-cheek and slightly serious but certainly smart and quintessentially...
Mighty deity of war, Attila the Hun was the fifth century king of the Hunnic Empire who wreaked havoc between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean for nearly two decades. His destructive path earned him the title of "Scourge of God"—the guy put his own brother six...
Self-proclaimed “beer drinkers who love cider,” Grizzly Ciderworks founders Corey Haugen and Andy Petek released their first run of ciders this fall with the hopes to bridge the gap between cider and beer consumers. The winning formula? Hops. With Washington apples...
John Sinclair understands that cider lives in the gray area of alcoholic beverage production. The line is finer as far as restrictions, for bottling, packaging, sustainability and more all because Washington hasn't quite decided if it thinks cider falls into the...
From the folks that brought you the "damn fine ciders" of three college buddies who started a cidery in Corvallis, Ore. (2 Towns Ciderhouse), comes the story of Tradition Ciderworks—the handmade, artisan cider collection sourced from Oregon farm apples....
There’s a new trend in town, one that may cause flashbacks of mulled spices from autumn’s past. With premier soils and climate for growing apples, seasons that easily lend themselves to crisp, bold and intoxicating flavors, and a growing craft beverage market,...
Auburn, Wash.'s Schilling & Company Cider is a descendant in a long local lineage of Washington producers—co-founder Colin Schilling is the great-great-grandson of August Schilling, the founder of Schilling Spice Company (now McCormick) and brought his family...
What's better than an empty nest after kids go to college, 15 acres of apple orchards and a view of Mount Gardner and the North Cascade Mountains? Probably not much, but your own ciderhouse comes in at a close second. This scenario was brought to Richard and Lynne...
Merridale Estate Cidery owners Janet Docherty and Rick Pipes are local culinary tourism icons, tireless wine industry supporters and highly respected entrepreneurs, based in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley. In addition to the Cider House, where they handcraft a...
Warning: this cider is going, going...you get the picture—this limited edition fresh hop cider was kegged, bottled and sent on its way from Finnriver Farm and Cidery's Olympic Peninsula abode in late August so what's out there is what's out there. Found at an...
