Mondays deserve fruit with fangs, which is why we turn to pineapple cider — the mischievous tropical cousin of your standard orchard pour. Making it is both straightforward and slightly mad: start with a bright apple base, fold in the sun-drenched tang of pineapple (sometimes fresh-pressed, sometimes steeped), flirt with citrus, spice, or botanicals, and suddenly your cider isn’t just a drink, it’s a beach party sneaking into the orchard like a stowaway. Pineapple cider has become the playground for cidermakers — part orchard tradition, part tiki fever dream — and today’s flight shows just how far that imagination can stretch. From tiki-punch whimsy to mezcal-infused sorcery, from orchard grit to habanero firestorms and Wu-Tang swagger, each glass in our Pineapple Monday Cider Flight proves pineapple doesn’t just belong on pizza, it belongs in your Monday.
Peaks & Pints Pineapple Monday Cider Flight
Greenwood Pineapple Punch
6.7% ABV
Greenwood Cider Pineapple Punch is the Mai Tai’s misbehaving orchard cousin — apples and Asian pears steeped in a tropical riot of pineapple, key lime, tart cherry, and cinnamon, then kissed with a whisper of orgeat syrup. Fruity, spiced, and semi-sweet, it’s entirely unbothered by Monday decorum, sipping more like a tiki bar daydream than a cider. Think island vacation bottled in an apple barrel, bright enough to make you grin, spiced enough to keep you lingering.
Tieton Pineapple Cider
6.9% ABV
Tieton Cider Works’ Pineapple Cider doesn’t tiptoe in — it cannonballs straight into the glass, fizzing with island swagger and orchard grit. Aromas of sunburnt pineapple leap first, chased by green apple snap and a sly lick of preserved lemon, all riding on a crisp mineral backbone that keeps it dangerously drinkable. It’s dry, bright, and bracing, like a late-summer orchard suddenly deciding to trade its boots for flip-flops. One sip and you’re halfway between Yakima and Maui, marveling at the audacity of it all.
Yonder Cider Coulee
6.9% ABV
Yonder Cider‘s Coulee is cider gone rogue, tasting like someone slipped a mezcal cocktail into the orchard and let it run wild. Pineapple comes first, sweet and sun-drunk, then lime snaps awake across your tongue, and just when you think you’ve got it figured out — cardamom sidles in, all smoky spice and desert night. The apple base (Pink Lady, Granny Smith, Marie Menard) holds the whole strange symphony together, crisp and grounding, while a ghost of coconut drifts across the finish. Tropical, herbal, a little bit witchy — the sort of pour that makes you wonder whether Monday is trying to seduce you.
Fierce County Patio Heater
7.2% ABV
Fierce County Cider‘s Patio Heater is exactly what it sounds like — a cider built to crank up the heat, even if you’re already sweating through summer. Sweet pineapple slides in first, all breezy tiki-shirt charm, before a habanero flame roars up behind it, sharp and unapologetic, like the part of the party you should’ve left an hour ago but didn’t. At 7.2% ABV, it’s bold without losing its balance, tropical without becoming syrupy, and spicy without overwhelming the whole orchard. One sip and you’re lit from the inside out, marveling at the absurd genius of fruit and fire in the same glass.
Newtopia Cyder Venom
8% ABV
Newtopa Cyder‘s Venom is no shy orchard spritz — it struts into your glass in full Wu-Tang swagger, because of course it was conjured in collaboration with U-God himself. This is cider with brass knuckles: blackberry brooding in the corner, pineapple and mango throwing tropical sparks, a sly ribbon of vanilla smoothing it all down before a dry, champagne-like finish snaps you back to attention. Bold, juicy, unapologetically loud — the kind of berry-drenched rap that makes Monday feel less like a slog and more like a beat you want to keep on repeat.
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