Let’s kick off your Monday with Finnriver Farm & Cidery — a cidery born when a wilderness educator, a dreamer, and a sweaty spreadsheet (yes, truly) converged in Chimacum, Washington, circa 2008. What began as a scrappy effort to salvage a family farm with apples sold to neighbors has grown into one of the Pacific Northwest’s torchbearers of organic, community-rooted cider-making. The founders — Keith, Crystie, and Eric — leaned on wisdom from mentors, conservationists, and local soil as they planted orchards, rebuilt old dairy barns into fermentation sanctuaries, and coaxed wild-foraged botanicals into bottles. They fused orchard science with poetry, farming with fermentation, and grew not just ciders but a thriving, inclusive farm community ecosystem.
So what you’re sipping today isn’t just fermented apple juice — it’s the distilled essence of a farm’s love affair with land, rebellion, and the alchemy of community. Now let the flight begin.
Peaks & Pints Monday Finnriver Cider Flight
Finnriver Pear
6.5% ABV
Pear is orchard nostalgia done up for the dance floor — organic Washington apples fermented crisp and clean, then softened with pear until it glows with golden charm. It doesn’t shout; it hums low and steady, with aromas like late summer pressed into a pour, apple brightness entwined with pear’s honeyed undertone. Semi-sweet but never syrupy, it’s elegant, refreshing, and a little sly — the kind of cider that convinces you to linger in the moment before Monday drags you back under fluorescent lights.
Finnriver Tideline
6.5% ABV
Tideline is Finnriver at its most elemental — a cider that tastes like the forest itself decided to ferment. Built on organic Golden Russet apples and steeped with Nootka rosehips and Grand fir tips, it’s a walk through pine resin and coastal air, with earth underfoot, citrus peel drifting in the breeze, and a hint of nut and herb tucked into the finish. Off-dry, layered, and teeming with wild character, Tideline isn’t just cider, it’s a handshake between orchard and forest — moss, salt, and light swirling together in the glass.
Finnriver Lavender Black Currant
6.5% ABV
Lavender Black Currant is less a cider and more a dusky little spell. Finnriver takes its organic apple base — Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Braeburn, Gala — and floods it with tart black currants until the fruit darkens to a wine-rich hue. Then comes the Olympic Peninsula lavender, floral and heady, like breathing in a purple dusk. The result is semi-sweet, sensual — orchard crispness colliding with berry bite and lavender’s velvet drift, with a trace of chocolate glimmering in the shadows. It doesn’t just refresh — it broods, it glows, it lingers, and it asks what exactly you thought Monday was for.
Finnriver Oak & Apple
6.5% ABV
Oak & Apple is Finnriver at its most fireside-romantic — apple brightness deepened by the slow ghost of whiskey barrels. Imagine tart Washington fruit stepping into a dim-lit bar where American oak, rye spice, vanilla, and toasted wood are already holding court. The result is a semi-dry cider with a round, mellow body that hints at citrus up front, then stretches into graham cracker warmth and a sly rye tickle at the finish. Equal parts orchard and saloon, it’s a pour that feels like a campfire confession — smoky, sweet, a little reckless, and impossible not to revisit.
Finnriver Habanero
6.5% ABV
This is Finnriver’s flamethrower — apples laced with habanero heat that doesn’t politely introduce itself so much as kick down the door and yell BAM! It smells faintly of pepper before the sip, then detonates with chili fire blooming across the tongue, balanced just enough by a crisp, off-dry apple backbone to keep you hooked. A wild paradox: refreshing yet incendiary, fruity yet feral, a cider that laughs at moderation while setting your Monday ablaze. Pair it with tacos, pizza, or your bravest impulse — just keep water handy, because this one lingers like a dare.
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