You’re in the Right Place to Grow with Northwest Cider
The Pacific Northwest is the heart of the craft cider movement, where apples are harvested, pressed, and fermented into finished cider. Whether sampled on site at an orchard tasting room, sipped at a bar, cafe or restaurant, or selected from a store shelf, many hands within a dedicated network connect Northwest cider with enthusiasts across the region and beyond.
If you’re a cider distributor, curator, shop keeper, bar owner, restauranteur, chef, writer, photographer—or anyone passionate about bringing Pacific Northwest cider and its story to the world—you’re in the right place. Here you will find a vibrant community and a rich wealth of resources to support your work. Learn about cider, increase cider sales, and stay current on industry trends.
Trade Education
Learn about how to sell more cider. Find resources about apples, how cider is made, and what cider curious consumers are looking for.
Customers are curious about cider and want to buy more. Explore timely consumer market research conducted with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center to better understand the cider consumer.
Interested in covering Northwest cider for the news or a media outlet? Find resources specifically for press and media including data, press releases, high-quality imagery and an electronic media kit.
Fermented ciders are value-added products that utilize farmers’ supplies of apples, pears, grapes, cane berries, stone fruit, cranberries, hops and botanical herbs.
Growing from 10 cidermakers in 2010, to 200+ cidermakers today the community in the Pacific Northwest cider industry is growing.
Demand for cider is tenfold what it was a decade ago.
As beer and wine markets are contracting, the cider market is growing.
Cider sales are increasing as marketing efforts have focused on driving sales with current cider consumers.
Research shows consumers are incredibly curious about cider and indicate they would try and buy ciders more if:
1) it was available at restaurants and bars 2) if someone they trusted recommended it
The Pacific Northwest produced 74% of the fresh U.S. apple crop and 64% of the total U.S. apple crop – that’s an estimated 124 million 40lb boxes!
The weighted average dollar value of apples as a Pacific Northwest fresh crop exceeds $2 billion dollars annually.
Apples are Washington’s largest agricultural product and the state is the top U.S. producer of apples and pears and sweet cherries. Washington produces more than 90% of the nation’s organic apple crop.
