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Citizen Cider Companion Tart Cherry Cider & Tasting FRI 07/21

Citizen Cider Companion Tart Cherry Cider & Tasting FRI 07/21

Delicious days about at the Bevie with a FREE HARD CIDER tasting Friday, July 21st from 4-6p.

Our local friends at Citizen Cider keep pumping craveable beverages into our store – we’re delighted with their latest release of Companion, a tart cherry cider!

Planned offerings:

  • Companion | NEW tart cherry cider
  • Unified Press | No added sugar, never from concentrate hard cider
  • Northern Spy | Made with 100% Northern Spy apples from Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT
  • Stan Up | Refreshing heirloom apple hard cider
  • bRosé | Hard cider made with apples from Middlebury, Blueberries from Charlotte
  • Elsewhere | Collaboration cider with Shelburne Museum

Get your hiney over to the Bevie, and meet these local makers!

From http://www.citizencider.com/

Companion
Apple trees and tart cherry trees make good companions in the orchard. They bloom and harvest at different times throughout the growing season, which is good for the land and good for the farmer. We figured they might make nice companions in a fermented cider as well. It turned out to be true, which is good for us, and good for you. Be a Good Companion and enjoy this very limited sour cherry cider.

  • Availability: Limited
  • No added sugar, never from concentrate.
  • Apples pressed at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT.
  • Finished with fresh sour cherry juice from Monmorency and Balaton sour cherries.
  • Manufactured in Burlington and Middlebury, VT.

 

Stan Up
We gave Stan the task of making us the finest blend of cider possible from the fruit at his orchard. Made with heirloom blends, this year we did something a little different with Stan Up and used only 2015 apples giving this year’s cider a vintage. We aged the cider in our steel tanks for 10 months starting last November, bottled it in late August and then let it bottle condition for another 2 months. And Voila! A year later we present Stan Up – 2015 Crop.

  • Availability: Limited
  • No added sugar, never from concentrate.
  • Apples picked from and pressed at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT.
  • Manufactured in Burlington and Middlebury, VT.
  • Pairings: Braised herbed chicken, hard cheese, prosciutto, hummus.
  • ABV: 8.0

 

Northern Spy
Made with Northern Spy apples alone, this single varietal cider is indubitably a showcase of one proud apple. Bright and acidic with a touch of sweetness and loads of character, the Northern Spy is an exceptional addition to your personal reserve.

  • Availability: Limited
  • Juice pressed at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT
  • Made with 100% Northern Spy apples from Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT
  • Manufactured in Burlington & Middlebury, VT
  • Pairings: Champlain Valley Triple cheese, cured ham, artichoke dip.
  • ABV: 6.4
  • 750mL Bottle

 

bRosé
Cider rosé made by three bros right in the great state of Vermont. bRosé is hand crafted by co-fermenting 100% Vermont blueberries and sweet cider pressed at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, Vermont. bRosé is the embodiment of cooperation. Blueberry and apple, summer and fall, farmers and cider makers. Here’s to getting along.

  • Availability: Forever
  • Apples pressed at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury, VT.
  • Blueberries from Charlotte Berry Farm in Charlotte, VT.
  • Manufactured in Burlington and Middlebury, VT.
  • Pairings: Lobster, blue cheese, aioli, bouillabaisse, tomato salad
  • ABV: 6.1

 

Introducing Elsewhere

Citizen Cider meets Shelburne Museum:
A collaboration of history and apples.

That’s right, we collab. The good folks at Shelburne Museum contacted us with an idea. “We have feral apple trees on the museum grounds, you guys make cider with apples, let’s join forces.” So, that’s what we did.

Turns out these apple trees are much more special than we even anticipated. Electra Havemeyer Webb, the founder of Shelburne Museum and also an ambitious and well-known collector of Americana, was responsible for the collection of heritage apple trees that reside on the museum grounds.

Read the full story: http://www.citizencider.com/2017/02/introducing-elsewhere/