Brooklyn Cider House's cider rapture started in the foothills of Urnieta and Hernani, in the Basque Country, catching natural cider straight from the barrel. Peter Yi, a wine buyer, took a break from tasting wines to visit a sagardotegi. It was a gastronomic experience like no other: simple, farm-fresh food, paired with natural cider caught straight from the barrel. Delicious food, incredible ciders, and elated diners filled the cidery with pure magic. It was a thunderbolt moment and not long after his trip, Peter told his sister Susan, "We need to make a cider house in Brooklyn." He was dead serious and within weeks, Peter walked away from a business he built for 25 years and Susan quit teaching to study apples and hard cider.

That was the spring of 2014. Brooklyn Cider House didn't know a bushel from a bin of apples. What they did know was that they wanted to make a wildly natural cider.

Brooklyn Cider House has come a long way in little time, thanks to a super dedicated staff. Within a couple of years, they have revitalized a Hudson Valley orchard, built a cidery, tasting room, farm store, and pavilion and their award-winning ciders can be enjoyed throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC and Florida.

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