Twilight Cider: Pick Your Apples and Drink Them, Too

BY CARA STRICKLAND

In 2009, Will and Jackie Jordan moved to Green Bluff to help out on her parent’s farm before starting their cider operation. Now Twilight Cider uses local produce from Green Bluff to create a range of ciders including seasonal releases and experimental one-offs you’ll want to snap up while they last like spiced apple, peach, hopped apricot and black cherry rhubarb.

In 2009, Will and Jackie Jordan moved to Green Bluff to help out on her parent’s farm—Roening’s on Green Bluff. Once there, a neighbor turned Jordan on to cider making, he bought 20 gallons of apple cider to ferment in his basement.

“It didn’t go very well,” Jordan says. “I didn’t know what I was doing.”

Still, cider had piqued his interest. He did some research, visited all the cideries in Washington and Oregon at the time, and made a lot more cider, eventually producing something delicious, and a bit drier and more balanced than what you might expect of a commercial cider.

Still, with both Jordans working full-time, making cider was a hobby, even though the size of the batches and time spent perfecting their product kept growing. Along the way, they started to specialize in using real ingredients (like apples vs. apple juice concentrate), including produce from Roening’s and other readily available fruits around Green Bluff.

The results are a set of standard ciders, which are always available at local markets and their Green Bluff tasting room, as well as seasonal releases and experimental one-offs you’ll want to snap up while they last.

You’ll find spiced apple, a hopped apricot gem called Hoppercot, Batch #8 Botanical (which Jordan describes as somewhat tea-like), and black cherry rhubarb. Seasonal varieties include the always popular peach, and a full-on cherry cider.

For purists, they do strictly apple ciders as well, but they also play with whatever catches their fancy—in the past that’s meant oat cider and apple peppermint, among others.

About Twilight Cider Works

TWILIGHT CIDER WORKS
509.570.8748
18102 N Day Mt Spokane Rd
Mead, WA 99021

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