Ragged Hill Cider Company

11/10/2025

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How about those apples? 🍎

Join us on November 15 for Cultivated: New England Apple Tree Symposium. This full day of apple-inspired discovery will include a behind-the-scenes tour of the Garden’s orchard as well as information on how to start and maintain your own apple orchard, a sampling of rare and flavorful apple varieties, and more! Learn more and reserve your spot in this year’s symposium:

10/31/2025

It’s weekend!! Catch us under the big tent Saturday and Sunday 🍏🥂🍾

07/23/2025

It’s a gorgeous summer afternoon ! Come on down and see what our ciders are all about!! 🥂🍏🍾

07/17/2025

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✨Steve Garwood of Ragged Hill Cider

Jimmy speaks with Steve Garwood of Ragged Hill Cider in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Steve shares stories of growing up in Massachusetts, including his first cider as a teenager, and why cider is the wine of New England. They also discuss New England cider traditions, Italian ancestrale methods, and the difference between apples you want to eat and ones that are good for aging.

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06/24/2025

05/14/2025

Bees have arrived at the Foster Hill Orchard…an orchard which we are renovating from 1980’s-90’s grocery varieties and top working these robust rootstocks into our favorite cider apples!

05/09/2025

🚨NEW RELEASE‼️🚨 ✨Russet Ancestrale✨

Be the first to taste our newest cider on Saturday May 17th and on Sunday May 18th!!

Two of the most traditional New England apples give this naturally sparkling cider notes of peach, rose blossom, and granitic minerality. Long aging on the lees makes our cider silky on the mid-palate with a long juicy finish. 100% New England apples harvested by hand in the hills of central Massachusetts.This is New England cider at its finest.

80% Golden Russett, 20% Roxbury Russett
8.5% ABV
Bottled 5/16/2022
Released 5/15/2025
Aged 36 months
Ancestrale or Pét-Nat method
Not disgorged (sediment at the bottom of the bottle)
103 cases produced

05/05/2025

Ragged Hill Cider is coming to the UK!! We are thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected to represent New England Cider at the this June 30- July 1 at the in London! UK friends and prospective shops, we’d love to set up time to meet and have you taste our ciders. Reach out so we can set something up. Cheers! 🥂 🍎 🍾

04/18/2025

Some good news from our little cidery…Springtime! Rebirth! Thank you and . Link in comments.🌱🌸🍏

03/20/2025

From Steve’s recent trip to Italy…

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11/03/2024

Taste through our ciders with Cidermaker Steve during !! Also featuring the wonderful ciders of our host along with , a selection of international ciders courtesy of as well as exciting newcomer on the local scene Spidersilk Cider out of Belchertown, MA! Sat & Sun 11am - 4pm , 112 Forget Rd, Hawley, MA 🍎🥂🍾

10/26/2024

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CIDER WEEK - LOCAL CIDER NIGHT

Calling all cider heads in Western Mass and beyond! We can’t wait to kick off Cider Week 2024 on Tuesday October 29th with a showcase of our local Cidermakers. We’ll be pouring a range of ciders BTG, but you are also welcome to grab a few bottles for your table. Expect offerings from and some brand new releases from !

Rumon has it most of the Cidermakers featured will even come down from the apple trees to join us for the evening! If you’re a home Cidermaker yourself, come say hi and pick their brains!

No tickets are necessary, but reservations are available through our website (full list of our Cider Week events are in a previous post). And don’t forget to check out all the events on their website!