From 'Opening' to 'Open'
Guys, we did it! We opened a cidery and it only took us 2.5 years!Now that we’re open, our focus has changed from fundraising, seeking legal counsel, location hunting, permitting, and general...
View ArticleThe Flow of Culture
We have a guest blogger today - our fantastic Assistant Cidermaker, Joseph Kilbourn. Take it away, Joseph!As a citizen of our fine modern city and the world, I regularly think about what defines...
View ArticleDesigning A Beautiful Space for Cider-Drinking
Without fail, guests that come into our tasting room mention how beautiful the space is. A lot of that is - of course - based on the awesome brick walls and archways that were already here when we got...
View ArticleCider: the Official Beverage of Thanksgiving
We've talked before on the blog about the rich history behind cider in the pre-Prohibition era United States. The Cliff's notes version is that the first settlers to the US from Europe brought along...
View ArticleDistribution, Part I
Folks that come into the cidery usually have a set of questions they progress through when they’re here:How long have you guys been open? (6 months)What did this building used to be? (A pharmacy. A...
View ArticleDistribution, Part II
In Part I of our Distribution blog series, we outlined the difference between self-distribution and working with a distributor. In Indiana (and in most states), cideries fall under wine legislation, so...
View ArticleWhat Goes In To Packaging Cider?
A question we hear a lot - both from customers in our tasting room and bars and restaurants now that we're distributing - is when we'll start packaging our cider. At the moment, we only sell our cider...
View ArticleWhat We Learned in Our First Year of Business
Some time has passed since the last blog post. Like, five months. We blame it on kicking things into high gear as we launched distribution in Indianapolis and also looked ahead into spring and summer,...
View ArticleStarting a Barrel-Aging Program
One of the main things we did when we were planning our business was to try as many different ciders as we could get our hands on. From traditional British Scrumpy ciders to more standard sweet ciders...
View ArticleMaking Our 2018 Scrumpy
Today's blog is from co-founder and head cidermaker, Aaron! Enjoy!I've been meaning to write with some more depth on our cidermaking for a long time now, and the day has finally come! This year's small...
View ArticleThe Time Has Come: We're Releasing our Cider in Cans!
Folks who have been following our blog for a while know that we've been planning to can our cider since the beginning, and that a lot goes into turning that decision into a reality. Well, it's finally...
View ArticleIt's Been a Minute! Here's an Update.
Hey everyone! Wow - time flies when you have a kid and you’re also in your first few years as a business. I apologize for neglecting our blog for the last year and a half and will commit to doing...
View ArticleHow Canning Changed Our Business
Almost two years ago, we decided to put our cider into 12 oz cans and release them into the wild. We wrote about why this was a complicated decision and how distributors work. We also talked about the...
View ArticleHow Canning Changed Our Business - Part II
In the last post, we talked about how there were some unintended consequences of releasing our cider in cans. After a year of canning - exposing more folks to our cider and growing our sales - we...
View ArticleWhat's the Goal for 2020? Dominate.
Back in October, I wrote a blog about some of the big things that happened in 2019 and how they had affected our business. In case you need a refresher, 2019 was a really big year for us. We started...
View ArticleBusiness in the Time of COVID - Part 1
I’m currently sitting on my couch, crying. I’ve been texting with one of our employees, who we had to furlough shortly after Governor Holcomb’s closure of in-person dining for bars and restaurants in...
View ArticleBusiness in the Time of COVID - Part 2
It’s hard to believe that five months have passed since our last blog about what it was like as a business owner in the early days of COVID-19. A lot has changed, but, sadly, a lot has remained the...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes Highlights of our 2020 Cider of the Month Gift Box
Did you hear the news? We just released a gift box that features the 12 unique Ciders of the Month that we released in 2020! We wanted to review 2020 through the lens of this gift box in the blog...
View ArticleGrowing Pains Part 1
Hey everyone! It’s been a few months since I last wrote a blog about how things are going at the cidery, so I thought we might be due for an update. I want to share a bit about some big projects we’ve...
View ArticleGrowing Pains Part 2
The last blog I published was in June, called Growing Pains Part 1. In it, I described some of the big projects we’d undertaken in 2021, which led to serious growth and serious growing pains (namely,...
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