Sip Northwest, Fall 2018

77 S I P N O R T H W E S T C O M HOPPED D O U B L E G O L D Meriwether Cider Co Hop Shot Garden City Idaho Back for another medal in this fair competition Meriwethers Hop Shot has also received high accolades from several other prestigious national cider contests Taking a semi dry dessert apple base and dryhopping it with the aromatic citrusy Citra hop this cider is vibrant and colorful marrying the hops uity juicy qualities with pure apple flavor and buoyant acidity 8 22oz meriwethercider com G O L D Portland Cider Co Hop Rageous 11 12oz 6 pack S I L V E R Tieton Cider Works Yakima Valley Dry Hopped 7 500ml B R O N Z E Rootwood Cider Co Hop Infused 15 750ml JUDGES PICKS Square Mile Cider Co Hopped Apple 10 12oz 6 pack Wards Cider Frostbite Cider 8 CAD 650ml Central City Brewers Distillers Hopping Mad Cider 11 CAD 12oz 6 pack STONE FRUIT D O U B L E G O L D Meriwether Cider Co Cherry Thyme Bomb Garden City Idaho Idaho is the fi h largest cherryproducing state in the country so it makes sense for this young cidery to take home the stone uit win The family made cider also makes an herbal move by steeping the cider in esh thyme om a nearby farm taking the dark candied cherry nose up a level with a so touch of thyme on the palate Apple and cherry mingle with acid and tartness on the way out the door 8 22oz meriwethercider com G O L D T I E Meriwether Cider Co Apricot Sage 8 22oz 2 Towns Ciderhouse Cherried Away 5 500ml S I L V E R Bad Granny Hard Cider Rainier Cherry 13 750ml B R O N Z E Lonetree Cider Co Apple Peach 11 CAD 16oz 4 pack JUDGES PICKS Washington Gold Cider Cherry 11 750ml 2 Towns Ciderhouse Cot in the Act 5 500ml Wards Cider Cherry Apple 12 12oz 6 pack Cidery to Watch Brownrigg Hard Cider SEATTLE Chris Brownrigg is growing 44 fruit trees in a test orchard in West Seattle nearly half of them cider apple trees in addition to hops cherries figs basil and other culinary ingredients that make it into this new Seattle ciderys Lilliputian production With tanks and barrels tucked into a corner space in 3 Howls distillery in the SoDo neighborhood Brownrigg is singlehandedly producing a wide variety of small batch ciders from Washington juice from a sidra inspired blend to a cherry cardamom steeped cider and a rum barrelaged rendition infusion with pineapple and organic coconut cream on display each weekend brownrigghardcider com Best Packaging Summer Set CARLTON CYDERWORKS This McMinnville Oregon cidery is a family affair with three generations making a mark on the diverse offering of ciders The premium end of the spectrum includes a trio of traditional ciders most using heirloom or cider specifi c fruit from the Willamette Valley The label for the Summer Set a name that shouts out to Somerset England the historic cider region of the United Kingdom fl aunts a dreamy bucolic setting of a wildfl ower dusted hillside leading into a shallow valley of apple trees backdropped by a shadowed mountain range With the artwork based on an original painting by the eldest generation in the family the dry and wellstructured cider itself is an even split of local Gravensteins and Dolgo crab apples carltoncyderworks com TOP LEFT PHOTO BY ROBERT WELL