Don’t Miss the Pacific Northwest Cider Awards and Festival This Weekend

By Seattle Mag June 5, 2014

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!–paging_filter–pCalling all cider lovers, Northwest-made beverage lovers, the cider-curious and really anyone looking for a fantastic event: it’s time for you to be a part of history. The first-ever a href=”http://www.pnwca.com/” target=”_blank”Pacific Northwest Cider Awards Festival/a (PNWCA) is happening this week, from Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8, at The Woods tasting room, down in SoDo at 4700 Ohio South. But what is the PNWCA? It’s a one-of-a-kind celebration of the expanding and awesome cider industry out here in the Pacific Northwest, with loads of cider to taste (full list below), food trucks, music and a great chance to rub shoulders and glasses with other cider fans and cider makers. There’s also a big competition (and I get to be judge – yes, be jealous) between 103 ciders from 27 cideries, and a People’s Choice award you can vote on (actually, emyou/em get to be a judge, too)./p
pTickets are available for each day, and run $30 in advance or $35 at the festival. But the tickets don’t just get you entry, you’ll also get a 13-ounce PNWCA tulip glass plus 8 tasting tokens. Each token gets you a 5-ounce pour of a tasty cider, or a 10-ounce pour for two tokens. The whole shebang is presented bya href=”http://www.seattlecidercompany.com/” target=”_blank” Seattle Cider Company/a and sponsored by the fine folks at a href=”http://local.seattlemag.com/events/drink-and-draw-capitol-hill-cider“Capitol Cider/a, Uber and the a href=”http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/” target=”_blank”Washington Beer Blog/a. To learn more, visit the festival site at pnwca.com or pick up tickets via Brown Paper Tickets (a href=”http://pnwca.brownpapertickets.com/“pnwca.brownpapertickets.com//a) before they sell out./p
pCheck out this amazing list of ciders from various cideries that will be available for tasting:/p
p2 Towns Ciderhouse – The Bad Apple/p
pAlpenfire Cider – Oaked/p
pBull Run Cider – Bramble Berry/p
pBlue Mountain Cider – Oregonian/p
pD’s Wicked Cider – Baked Apple/p
pFinnriver Cidery – Honey/p
pFinnriver Cidery – Honey Meadow Botanical/p
pGrizzly Ciderworks – Hop Claw/p
pLiberty Ciderworks – New World/p
pMethow Valley Ciderhouse – Honey Bear/p
pNiegel Vintners – Formula 37/p
pPortland Cider Co. – Hop’Rageous/p
pPortland Cider Co. – Pearfect Perry/p
pRed Tank Cider – Happy/p
pRed Tank Cider – CHOPS/p
pSchilling Cider Company – Ginger/p
pSeattle Cider Company – Semi Sweet/p
pSeattle Cider Company – Dry/p
pSeattle Cider Company – Gin Botanical/p
pSeattle Cider Company – Three Pepper/p
pSeattle Cider Company – PNW Berry/p
pSnowdrift Cider Co. – Nebula Red/p
pTieton Cider Works – TBD/p
pWandering Aengus Ciderworks – Blind Tiger/p
pWandering Aegnus Ciderworks – Wickson/p
pWhiskey Barrel Cider – Dam Hard Cider/p

 

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