Tilted Shed Ciderworks

09/11/2018

Oh hey, sorry we've been MIA on FB. Harvest is bonkers, and we've been posting often on our Instagram feed () so find us there! Meanwhile, here's a nice pickup from a Sunset article on us in the SF Chronicle. Come and visit us sometime! Our tasting room is open Saturdays 12 to 6 p.m.

Wine has never really fallen out of favor, craft beer has boomed in recent decades, and now craft cider is on the rise again as U.S. imbibers rediscover the founding fathers' drink of choice.

08/16/2018

Tomorrow (Friday) night is Arts in the Alley, a fantastic showcase of local artists and craftspeople, plus musical guests! And of course delicious wine, cider, spirits, beer, and food with our neighbors Colagrossi Wines, Two Shepherds, K Squared Cellars, Sonoma Brothers Distilling and Barley & Bine Beer Cafe. Kid & dog friendly, lots of fun. See you!

08/09/2018

Join us The Spinster Sisters this Saturday after the Gravenstein Apple Fair!

It’s SONOMA COUNTY CIDER WEEK! This Saturday, August 11th from 5-9 PM. Come meet, chat, and sip with the CIDER MAKERS of Tilted Shed as they pour their bottlings, all made right here in Sonoma County from 100% Sonoma County–grown apples. There are no tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of Spinster Sisters’ delicious small plates and pairings.
https://www.sonomacountyciderweek.com/

08/07/2018

Sonoma County Cider Week started off with a bang over the weekend, and this week's festivities are going to be awesome as well! Our grand finale will be this weekend's Gravenstein Apple Fair organized by Sonoma County Farm Trails. It'll be a cider lover's paradise, as the expanded Cider Tent will feature 17(!) locally made ciders. At the Artisan Tasting Lounge, enjoy pours of our very limited Tilted Plow collaboration cider, which we made with Horse & Plow Winery to commemorate this year's fair. There will also be other special ciders, cocktails, delicious small bites, and lots more! The Fair is so much fun for the entire family, and in fact, it was the first thing we did as a family when we moved to Sebastopol 8 years ago. Hope to see you there! I'll be the crazy apple lady with the apple crown!

08/04/2018

The tasting room will be closed today for a private event (our sold-out txotx!). Sorry for the inconvenience. Catch us at tomorrow's pig roast cider dinner at Backyard in Forestville, and then at the Gravenstein Apple Fair next weekend!

07/31/2018

Sonoma County Cider Weeks starts on Friday! Here's a roundup of Heather Irwin's top 7 events, then cap off the fun with all things apple and cider related at Gravenstein Apple Fair!

From cider tasting to touring apple farms, Cider Week events are apple-tastic.

07/28/2018

🐱🚨IMPORTANT MEWS 🚨🐱The tasting room will be closed today. See you next Saturday at Txotx (still some tickets left; see our Events page at tiltedshed.com). Sorry for the inconvenience, but if you locals need cider, head over to Andy's Produce Market or Bottle Barn. Have a purr-fect weekend!

07/27/2018

Thanks to Farminista's Feast with Karen Pavone for this great preview of our Txotx and other fantastic Sonoma County Cider Week events, culminating in the Gravenstein Apple Fair! Check out sonomacountyciderweek.com and join in on the 10 days of cider-centric fun!

07/24/2018

Thanks to CIDERCRAFT Magazine and Darlene Hayes for the great article on the inspiration behind Sonoma County Cider Week. It's coming up: August 3 and culminating at the Gravenstein Apple Fair August 11-12. Check out all the great cidermakers & events at sonomacountyciderweek.com and be sure to go to the Craft Cider Tent & Artisan Tasting Lounge at the Fair. We have an exciting Gravenstein Apple Fair collaboration cider to announce as well!

Much has already been written about how apple orchards in bucolic Sonoma County, California, have lost ground to the almighty wine grape, at least since the 1970s. Wine grapes are...

07/19/2018

A smattering of crabapples from our farm. Harvest is coming soon.

07/17/2018

💃🏻TXOTX IS COMING!⚡️Don’t miss out on our 3rd annual Basque-inspired cider party & Inclinado release, as part of Sonoma County Cider Week! Sat., Aug. 4 at the cidery. Tickets just $20 for barrel tapping, sidra, pintxos, and more fun. This year we also have Txotx T-shirts! Order your ticket and T’s now: tiltedshed.com/events

07/11/2018

By my latest tally, we have 133 different apple and pear varieties on our farm, plus almost 200 of my seedling trees. I try to keep good records of bloom and harvest data. Transcendent crab, seen here, is always the first to ripen. Last year we picked on July 21! Hopefully it won’t be that early this year. Let’s wait till August, please.