One of many area’s most beloved cider competitors and awards returns to Portland later this month because the twelfth annual Northwest Cider Cup Awards Celebration will happen at Holocene in Southeast Portland. On Thursday, June 26, 2025, cider lovers and makers will collect at Holocene to rejoice the easiest of Northwest craft cider on the Northwest Cider Cup Awards Celebration. Representing Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and British Columbia, this annual occasion unveils the top-scoring ciders that had been submitted from the area’s cideries.
In keeping with organizers, the Northwest Cider Cup is essentially the most rigorous cider competitors in North America because it highlights the best cider creations from the biggest apple-growing area. Skilled judges consider every entry primarily based on look, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel, setting the gold customary for high quality and magnificence.
“The Northwest Cider Cup is that once-a-year probability to sip the most effective of the Northwest, rub elbows with the makers, and lift a glass to cider completed proper,” says Emily Ritchie of the Northwest Cider Affiliation (NWCA), the commerce nonprofit that coordinates the occasion.
The Northwest Cider Cup Awards Celebration is an annual celebration of the most effective ciders within the Pacific Northwest area in over 15 classes. Successful ciders are introduced through the awards ceremony, the place greater than 200 cider business professionals and cider fans collect for a celebratory night.
Annually on the Awards Celebration, along with honoring the most effective ciders, organizers additionally acknowledge the most effective in different classes, together with Better of Present, Finest New Cidery, Finest Cidery of the Yr (Small, Medium, Giant), Finest Dressed, and extra.
The occasion brings collectively dozens of revered judges for a rigorous coaching adopted by a day of blind tasting. Award winners might be posted on nwcider.com/northwest-cider-cup/ following the occasion. Be among the many first to style a curated lineup of award-winning ciders—revealed the second they’re topped. Anticipate uncommon pours, restricted releases and unique sips on the Awards Celebration on June twenty sixth that takes place from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
Go to nwcidercup.com for particulars, tickets are $25, reserve your tickets for the Awards Celebration. Hors d’oeuvres might be served and a collection of successful ciders might be accessible for buy.
Holocene – 1001 Southeast Morrison Road – Portland, OR
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D.J. is a Portland, Oregon primarily based author that spent his early life within the Midwest. With over 25 years beneath his belt of consuming beer at festivals throughout America and the world, he has developed a robust appreciation and understanding of craft beer and the business that surrounds it. He will be present in any of the nice breweries or beer bars that make Portland the most effective beer metropolis on the earth. His writing will also be discovered within the archives of Northwest Brewing Information and will be adopted on Twitter and Instagram at @hopapalooza.
