Autumn, if it were liquid, would taste exactly like this. Peaks & Pints’ Monday Late October Cider Flight is a love letter to the season when breath fogs the air and spice takes over the senses — a brief, golden stretch when apples burn brighter, pumpkins dream in caramel tones, and the year exhales cinnamon. These are ciders born for sweaters and low light, each pour a different stanza in October’s slow-burn poem. From California’s playful Ace and chai-spun Newtopia to Oregon’s sultry Bauman’s, Seattle’s rain-tempered Seattle Cider, and Yakima’s sharp-tongued Tieton, this flight drifts between orchard glow and campfire shadow — equal parts harvest hymn and hedonist prayer.
Peaks & Pints Late October Cider Flight
Ace Cider Pumpkin Cider
5% ABV | Spiced Apple & Pumpkin Cider | Sebastopol, CA
Ace’s take on pumpkin cider doesn’t bother with restraint. Crisp California apples meet roasted pumpkin and a cavalcade of autumn spice until the glass glows like sunset through amber leaves. The aroma — part bonfire, part bakery — is all invitation, the palate bright, dry, and teasingly smooth. It closes with a flash of nutmeg warmth and a mischievous grin. The kind of cider that reminds you how easily “one more” becomes three.
Newtopia Cyder Pumpkin Chai Me a River
5.8% ABV | Spiced Apple Cider with Pumpkin & Chai | San Diego, CA
Pumpkin Chai Me a River drifts through the senses like incense in a spice market. Newtopia layers its blend of Fuji, Gala, and Honeycrisp apples with pumpkin, black tea, and a constellation of chai spice — cinnamon, chamomile, chrysanthemum — until the cider hums like late-afternoon heat over cobblestones. The taste is smoke and silk, caramel dusk and quiet bloom, finishing with a soft, floral exhale. This is autumn seen through saffron glass — worldly, aromatic, and gloriously unhurried.
Bauman’s Elvira’s Spicy Pumpkins
6.7% ABV | Spiced Pumpkin Cider | Gervais, OR
Leave it to Bauman’s to conjure Elvira in liquid form — sultry, sly, a little dangerous. Apples and pumpkin join the coven with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice swirling like sparks over embers. The scent alone could raise the dead (or at least the mood), and the flavor rolls from sweet to spiced to scandalous. Semi-dry, smooth, and wickedly balanced, it lingers like a wink from across the bonfire.
Seattle Cider Pumpkin Spice
6.9% ABV | Semi-Sweet Spiced Cider | Seattle, WA
Seattle Cider’s autumn opus lands somewhere between nostalgia and rebellion. Fresh Washington apples steep in clove, allspice, and cinnamon until the aroma feels like apple pie caught mid-spell. The sip is silky and round, sweet only by suggestion, each note leaning into the next like warmth leaning into rain. It’s the cider equivalent of a last golden hour before November takes the light.
Tieton Cider Works Cranberry Cider
6.9% ABV | Semi-Sweet Apple & Cranberry Cider | Yakima, WA
Cranberry Cider bites first, kisses second. Tart and electric, the Yakima blend cuts through autumn’s comfort with a flash of ruby-red energy — apples crisp as frost meeting cranberries bright as sparks. It smells like holiday mischief and tastes like sunlight on snow. Sweet, sharp, and utterly alive, it’s the final word in this flight’s love letter to fall — proof that even the year’s cold breath can still taste wild.
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