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Orangesicle- Our LSB blend with orange juice, orange zest, and vanilla. Sugar to balance.

5.8%abv
fills: quart - $12.25 half gal - $23

Bay Street - Rum barrel aged LSB with and infusion of coconut, pineapple, and spices. Your Tropical vacation starts right here. Brown sugar added to balance and sulfites for freshness.

5.8% abv
fills: quart - $12.75 half gal - $24

The Back 40 (oaked) - One of the original flagship blends. Right down the middle with a mild tannic backbone. Lightly oaked for roundness and aroma. Easy drinking with sugar added to balance. .

6.6% abv

fills: quart - $11.25 half gal - $22

Vanilla Jack - Aged in Jack Daniels barrels. Smooth barrel aged character, lite notes of whiskey and vanilla. A small amount of sugar added to balance. Sulfites added.

5.9% abv
fills: quart - $12.75 half gal - $24

Wobbly Farmer 2.0- Clean, refreshing and not too sweet. Easy drinking with a bump from residual fruit sugar and a little structure from the bitter varieties Dabinette and Wickson. Sugar added to balance.

5.9% abv fills: quart - $11.25 half gal - $22

3 oz samples any blend: $2.25

14oz pour any blend: $7.50

Empty growlers:
both quarts and half gallons - $6.50

BOTTLED CIDER

Homesteader

$19.50/bottle

All Butternut Farm grown apples.

A soft tannic structure and a mild acidic back bone come together nicely from the mixed in Bitter sweet and Bitter Sharp apples. Oak aged with hints of rum and tropical fruits and no added preservatives. This bone dry cider is reminiscent of what we think cider would have been like in the days of the early New England Homesteader.

Sourced from here at Butternut Farm and other local growers.

THE BACK 40: Ida Red, Golden Delicious, Jon a Gold, Greening, Wickson, and Dabinette.

WOBBLY FARMER: Ida Red, Golden Delicious, Jonagold Wickson, Dabinette, and Macintosh.

LATE SEPTEMBER BLEND (LSB): Macintosh, Gala, Greening, Golden Delicious

(LSB is the base used in all of our fruit infused and barrel aged ciders)

MAC-N-SAUCED: Macintosh

HOMESTEADER: Ashmeads Kernal, Porters Perfection, Ellis Bitter, Dabinette, Golden Delicious and Macintosh

A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR METHODS, APPLES, TECHNIQUES, AND THE USE OF PRESERVATIVES IN OUR HARD CIDER.

We hand-craft on site in 200 gallon batches. At minimum, it takes 10 weeks from pressing the apples until a batch is finished and ready to serve. However, some of our best ciders have aged longer, for up to 9 months. We use simple methods with attention to detail. Cultured yeasts give predictable results and the fresh apple flavors are preserved by not filtering and using minimal if any post fermentation preservatives (sulfites and sorbates).

If all goes as planned, our juice is treated once before fermentation with a dose of sulfite. This step cleans up any wild yeast and bacteria in the juice and allows for a cleaner fermentation. The early dosage also gives time for their "Off Flavors" to dissipate before the cider reaches the tasting room glass.

Despite our best efforts to limit their use post fermentation, sulfite additions at that time are sometimes necessary. Any of our blends with post ferment adds of any preservative will be labeled as such.

Our blends are mostly combinations of “dessert” apple varieties. We seek combinations that offer maximum sugar and balanced acidity for a light and refreshing beverage. The ABV of our cider ranges from 5% to 7-ish% and sweetness levels can be found across the entire spectrum. Before serving, the cider is force carbonated and back sweetened if necessary. 3oz samples are available in the "tasting room" and Quart and half gallon sized growlers are ready for purchase and fills. Please remember our ciders are best when consumed within 3 weeks of purchase and are kept fresh by always being stored upright in your refrigerator.

Heirloom, Bittersweet, and Bittersharp varieties native to both Europe and North America are planted in our orchards. These trees are now five years old and their apples are beginning to have an impact on our ciders. This year's bottled cider Homesteader is made entirely with butternut farm apples with a heavy impact from heirloom, bittersweet and bittersharp varieties.

Our cider can be style categorized as Modern, Wood aged, or Fruit. Click this link for more info on cider styles: http://ciderassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/USACM-Style-Guidelines-V2p0-1.pdf