As America's oldest operating cider maker, Spire Mountain Ciders has been feeding the nations's love affair with cider since 1985. From Colonial times and well into the 19th Century, hard cider was America’s beverage of choice. Democratically refreshing and widely available, it graced the tables of humble and high-born alike. All across the land, Americans were a nation of cider lovers. With westw
ard expansion into lands more suited to grain than orchards, half of the nation’s taste began shifting to beer. The other half, meanwhile, embraced Temperance. Eventually, the Drys prevailed, ushering Prohibition and thirst upon the land. Hard cider fell on hard times. Even with the end of the so-called Noble Experiment, fine cider would spent decades as a shadow of its former popularity. In that year came the birth of Spire Mountain Cider, America’s oldest operating craft cider maker. A love affair is reborn.
