Just over one year ago, two brothers from Texas made their cider debut in Woodinville, Washington, wine country. Tucked into what is known as the Warehouse District between a surplus of wineries and breweries, Locust Cider proves a palatable asset to the city’s...
From New York’s Finger Lakes region comes the Beckhorn Hollow cider from the small, family-run orchards of Eve’s Cidery. The cider is made using the traditional Champagne method and owners Autumn Stoscheck and Ezra Sherman take a more holistic approach to their...
Welcome back for another edition of Sip Northwest’s Bar Tab, the weekly selection of what to drink in the Northwest now. This week, we throw the notion of themes out the window and open the door to a list without rhyme or reason. So, if you're looking for diversity in...
A couple of weeks ago, Chris Schmidt emailed me during a break on his motorcycle trip through Northern Spain, which, unbeknownst to many Americans, has outstanding cider. "The English are like, 'Oh yeah, we’re the cider kings,'" he explains. "Meanwhile, Spain blows...
It was a long and sometimes fruitless - but mostly very fruitful in the apple sense - journey for Burlington, Vermont's Citizen Cider, but the once small-batch cidery has successfully settled into the acclaim of the East Coast cider world. Partnering with Middlebury's...
The Fifth Annual Oregon Cider Week returns June 16-26 with a 10-day marathon of cider-centric events. Hosted by the Northwest Cider Association, Oregon Cider Week will celebrate all things apple, featuring tastings, cider dinners, tap takeovers and even a celebration...
From production to distribution, sales to public relations, Dana Bushouse of Crooked City Cider does it all. This small-batch cidery is strictly a one-woman show. Based in uptown Oakland, California, Bushouse and Crooked City Cider strive to be the Bay Area’s...
Originally a wine bar known as Six Plates, Durham North Carolina’s Black Twig Cider House had much to live up to upon transitioning into the cider world. “We wanted to show the beauty of cider,” explains owner Mattie Beason of Black Twig’s journey from wine bar to...
With the namesake derived from a mythical-mighty titan, you would expect nothing short of legendary when it comes to the cider produced by Dan and Samantha McCoy of Atlas Cider in Bend, Oregon. For three years the McCoys have been fermenting fruits and concocting...
Vincent Sterne, owner of Two Rivers Cider, remembers the days of making barely drinkable cider. Those days were a long time ago. Now 20 years into the cider business, Two Rivers Cider has carved a name for itself within the California cider region. From their Original...
