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This is a good cider. Very orange! Very clear and crisp but sweet like a blood orange and not tart. Tasty.

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2 towns cider house “sun’s out” peach saison

Smells and tastes peachy sweet and has a nice funk from the saison yeast. Not super complex but very pleasant. Deserves much stars

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Holy shit, it's happening!

It is finally fucking happening. After almost 2 years of looking for the right space we are opening our cider works and taproom! Our meeting with the city went great, they loved our concept, loved our layout, are super easy to work with and we have a signed LOI for our space.

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This weekend we pay homage to fruit in all of its fermented glory.

One of our favorite cider brewers, 2 Towns Cider house, always fruitiest of ciders. From traditional all apple to ginger and even Oregon’s favorite berry: marionberry

Now we also carry their seasonal cider: a concoction featuring peach notes and fermented with saison yeast. Our perfect answer to warm afternoons.

And on the subject of sours and marionberry, Flat Tail has done what we have all been wait for with beer and created a beautiful marionberry brew with a warm finish from pink peppercorns this ale is complex and refreshing.

How do you like your fruit fermented?

Let us know what your fave fruity or not so fruity ciders or beers are from Oregon, so we can try them for our selves!

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What interesting cider flavors have you seen or tried?

I’ve had:

lavender elderberry

sour prickly pear

rosehip

apple, pear, quince

coffee

mint

The one the surprised me the most was the mint...on a hot summer day I thought it was fantastic.

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In 2015 Cider sales in the United States grew by 10.8% over 2014 to a total of $523,593,305 according to Nielsen, which tracks off-premise (retail, not restaurant) sales of alcoholic beverages. This 10.8% growth rate reflects a significant slowing in the growth of the cider sector from 2014 when growth in cider sales increased by... Read more »

This is very interesting but it’s really telling a small part of the story and is omitting the part of the story I care most about. Cider exploded because of the macros: Angry Orchard, Stella, Redd’s, Johhny Applseed but their products leave a lot to be desired.

I’m hesitant to compare cider to beer but it is interesting to see how quickly cider drinkers started to shun the big names and start to look for something craft, something local. I want to see the numbers of independent places like Portland Cider that have grown an insane amount and just opened a massive new facility.

Just something to keep in mind.

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Drive 30 miles due west of downtown Portland, and you’ll come to some valleys that were so fertile they lured people in Ohio and Missouri to trek out in Conestoga wagons for the chance to farm them. It remains some of the most fertile farmland in America. Well over a century later, three partners found eight acres of that same lush soil near the town of Forest Grove in 2011 and became pioneers of a different sort. Like Angry Orchard, when they looked into cider’s future, they saw heirloom cider apple trees sunning themselves in these very fields.

Strolling about the diminutive orchard, Mulligan sweeps his arm across a portion of the fields in our view. “So, we took a 10-year lease on this property four years ago,” he explains. “We have eight acres here, and that will double in the next two years.”

What’s fascinating is that Bull Run is mining not just Europe’s apple tradition, but one in America that was just on the brink of extinction. Bull Run’s connection to the Home Orchard Society put them in contact with orchardists who were maintaining rare and in some cases forgotten species of apples. “The Society has a lot of access to private orchards where, [for example], this guy is a retired engineer and he’s growing 15 different types of cider apples,” Mulligan says. “Nick Botner in Yoncalla, Oregon grows the world’s largest private collection of apples—4,000 varieties. He’s 88 years old.”

(Botner’s collection is renowned and, for the apple nerds, a rabbithole worth diving into.)

Inspired, Mulligan and Williams decided to invest in this genetic trove. “We have 95 different varieties of apples and 10 different varieties of French, German, and English perry pears,” Mulligan says. He also notes the similarity among Oregon’s climate and that of the cider regions of France and England. “This maritime climate we live in is very similar to the west side of the UK. We know those varieties do well in the UK and they’ve proven to do well here. And we’re trying other varieties.”

No doubt some of the trees will prove to be less expressive in Forest Grove (and may well not grow there well at all), but Bull Run has planted them with the assumption most will flourish. “We’re planting them in blocks of 30, 50 trees, sometimes up to 100, 150,” Mulligan says.

This is an experiment that’s been going on in different regions of the country, with very different climates and soils. One of the earliest orchardist cidermakers is Farnum Hill’s Steve Wood, who began planting cider apples in 1989 at his New Hampshire farm. Since then, he’s offered both his experience growing these kinds of trees along with wood from them to anyone who asked.

Wood says he’s always given away bud wood to aspiring cidermakers. Apple trees, like human, are heterozygous, meaning that offspring are not exact copies of their parents. If you want to replicate a Kingston Black apple, you need to get a branch—known as “bud” or “scion” wood—from a Kingston Black tree. So Wood’s a generous guy giving the stuff away, but he also had an ulterior motive—he wanted to see which tree varieties grew in which climates.