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What is American Cider? What is Minnesota Cider? F

What is American Cider? What is Minnesota Cider? For us, the answer lies in the fruit, the season, and the people. What varieties of apples we use and where we get them defines the cider. The vision, taste, and creativity of the cider maker plays the next biggest role.
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We use only particular varieties of local fruit, all pressed here at the farm. We add no water, no preservatives, and pitch no yeast. Native yeasts do the fermentation. No filtering or fining for our cider. Aged for as long as it takes, could be three years for some! This is the process for all of our ciders.
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This book by Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo @american_cider is a must have for cider drinkers. It is full of history, insight, and overviews of all the cider regions and cider makers in the USA, including us!
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You can purchase a copy of your own at the cidery (or online for those far away). For a few lucky winners, we are offering a book giveaway. Like this post for one entry to win the new book, like and share for two entries or drop by the cidery to enter in person. Open Saturdays 12-6pm. See you at the Cidery!

#americancider #minnesotacider #petnat #spontaneousfermentation

Mystical morning

Mystical morning

We had a fantastic showing at our annual Wassail o

We had a fantastic showing at our annual Wassail on Saturday, with strong voices, hearts, and cheers. Thanks to all who joined us to bring in a healthy year, in all aspects of life!

You can still visit and wander the orchard on your own Saturdays through March, 12-6pm. We will be open for our cold season menu (simple Toasties and soup) with cider and warm beverage options. More open days/hours and our full menu coming as the weather warms.
#wassail #ciderseasonhasbegun #weareinthistogether #localciderlocalfood

Join us for our traditional Wassail Saturday Febru

Join us for our traditional Wassail Saturday February 27th from 12-6! Come anytime to drink cider and eat Toasties then join in one or both Wassail orchard walks (2pm & 4pm) and keep drinking cider, sing songs, bang pans, play instruments and prepare the orchard for spring!
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The goal of this tradition is to ensure a healthy harvest in the year to come by enticing good spirits to come to the orchard (they like the song and dance part), and to frighten away bad spirits that might wreak havoc and ruin this year's crop!
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Our tradition is held a little later than some others due to our longer winter. It started with our little family banging on pots and pans and making loud noises and has grown to involve our Minnesota community.
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Mark your calendars 2/27/21, bring along your noise makers, and make your way to Keepsake!
#wassail #wassailing #eatdrinkandbemerry

Buy a ticket by 1pm tomorrow (Tuesday) for the Che

Buy a ticket by 1pm tomorrow (Tuesday) for the Cheese & Cider Happy Hour on 1/23/21 at 5pm hosted by @shepherdswaycheese Jodi Ohlsen-Read and our own Nate Watters with @cannonvalleygrown Maddy Bartsch fielding your questions for the two producers. Find out what makes Shepherd’s Way Farms and Keepsake Cidery extraordinary. We provide the conversation, cheese, cider & 2 tulip glasses, you relax, eat, drink and be entertained. Pick up sites in Mpls and at the Tasting Room. Buy tickets at keepsakecidery.square.site or give us a call! #eatdrinkandbemerry #supportlocalfarmersandproducers

Snow, snow, snow! And what to do? How about a guid

Snow, snow, snow! And what to do? How about a guided snowshoe adventure in the Cannon River Wilderness or a self guided treasure hunt, with a treasure of bottled cider at the end? Join the crew @thegearresourceoutfitters Saturdays from tomorrow (still room for you!) on into March while the snow flies. Base camp Keepsake. #stayactive #thegearresourceoutfitters #cannonriverwilderness #snowshoeing

A true Keepsake goose...knows a good apple when he

A true Keepsake goose...knows a good apple when he sees one. #itsmine #geeseeatapplestoo #keepsakeapples

Sneak peak of our upcoming virtual Cheese & Cider

Sneak peak of our upcoming virtual Cheese & Cider Happy Hour coming up January 23 from 5-6pm! Pick up your @shepherdswaycheese and Keepsake Cider & tulip glasses package at Twin Cities sites or at the Cidery the week before the event. Chat with the makers in this casual, fun from home event. Get your tickets at keepsakecidery.square.site now! You can purchase other locally produced items and additional cider on the site and get them delivered with your package. Age 21+. We are proud @cannonvalleygrown members. Thanks for supporting local small businesses! #buylocaleatlocal #ciderhappyhour #artisancheese #cannonvalleygrown

Our last pressing of the season, Minnesota late se

Our last pressing of the season, Minnesota late season apples. How appropriate that it was for this year’s Ice Cider - a true Minnesota drink of the North - as we were greeted by this sleeping beauty frosty orchard this morning! #drinkofthenorth #cannonvalleygrown

However you’re celebrating NYE (a quiet, contemp

However you’re celebrating NYE (a quiet, contemplative one for us) bubbly natural cider will complete your night. Welcome in the New Year with a bottle of Keepsake effervescent deliciousness. All the goodness without any of the junk! Get it at your local bottle shop or direct from the Cidery with a call or email to schedule a pick up. #realcider #goodstuff

Still looking for that perfect gift? We have a few

Still looking for that perfect gift? We have a few easy, quick options that support a small business while making someone special happy!

🍎 Cider Club Membership - the gift that keeps giving with bottles throughout the year, Keepsake merchandise, Tasting Room discounts and Member Party. Visit our website or keepsakecidery.square.site to purchase

🧀 Virtual Cider and Cheese Happy Hour 1/23/21 featuring us and @shepherdswaycheese. Meet the makers while eating cheese and drinking cider out of Keepsake glasses all provided to you the week prior to the event. Details and purchase at keepsakecidery.square.site

🥂Gift cards in any amount to use for any purchase at our Tasting Room. Contact us directly via email/phone or go to our website for e-gift cards keepsakecidery.com

Contact us with any questions, Keepsakecidery@gmail.com

Happy Holidays!

We are open Saturday 12-5pm for the last time this

We are open Saturday 12-5pm for the last time this year (and probably through January). Make sure you have Keepsake on hand to brighten up those winter nights. Case deals, BYO bottle draft sales, Apple sales, and our favorite local artisan foods and products for last minute gifts! Don’t forget Cider Club memberships and the virtual cheese and cider happy hour with our friends @shepherdswaycheese as gifts that keep on giving. See you at the Cidery! #supportsmallbusiness #drinkrealcider

Bulk apple sales, fill your own container with dra

Bulk apple sales, fill your own container with draft cider, and all sorts of these local products for you to pick from this Saturday and next, 12/12 & 12/19, from 12-5pm. Preset gift combos available for preorder at keepsakecidery.square.site as well. Check it out! #stayinalive #keepinitlocal #applesapplesapples

Give a treat to your immune system and body Saturd

Give a treat to your immune system and body Saturday, 11/21, 12-6pm, at our to-go local market. Echinacea tinctures and herbal balms made by our herbal collective from herbs we grow might be just what you need to hang in there this winter. That and all the other local goods we sell make this an easy, safe option to gather treats and necessities. And for your mental health, we also happen to have two kittens that need good homes, so contact us or come on over to see if these little ones are meant for you! #thelittlethings #stayhealthy #buylocal

Make us your source for organic apples and cider!

Make us your source for organic apples and cider! Stock up for the Thanksgiving and the rest of Winter. We have case discounts and our cider ages beautifully. We’ve also got you covered with many organic apple varieties for apple pies, apple sauce, apples for biting and slicing thinly to pair with cheese, apples for cooking inside your turkey, endless uses! We are open for to go sales this Saturday 12-6pm. You can also snag some yummy to go local foods for pairing. See you at the Cidery! #buylocal #agedcider #applesapplesapples

Yesterday’s press...one of our favorite, if not

Yesterday’s press...one of our favorite, if not the favorite, of true cider apples, the Golden Russet. Rich deep golden liquid deliciousness that when fermented and aged properly can make some of the best cider. We pride ourselves on the use of all local apples that we press on site. That means pushing the boundaries on what apples are grown in Minnesota so that we are not only growing eating apples, e.g. HoneyCrisp, that taste yummy but don’t make great natural ciders. Our orchard was planted with apple trees like Golden Russet, Kingston Black, Dabinett, and Keepsake to name a few. These apples make complex, beautiful long aged ciders (often as a single varietal rather than a blend of apples) without adding flavors, colors, essences, concentrates or other additives to make it taste and look a certain way. In our case we also do not pitch yeast. The native yeasts are thus allowed to ferment the cider in a process called spontaneous fermentation. The Apple and region dictate the Cider. #realcider #localapples #nativeyeast #spontaneousfermentation

Treat yourself while supporting your community! No

Treat yourself while supporting your community! No beverage is better than cider for Thanksgiving. Pick up your holiday goodies at the Tasting Room this Saturday 12-6pm. Safe and easy! Two convenient preset box options (prepay available) which include various items including cheeses, honey, cider with add-ins like apples (for eating and baking), local eggs and chickens. Contact us for details keepsakecidery@gmail.com #shopsmall

A sweet pic courtesy of Keepsake Cider Club Member

A sweet pic courtesy of Keepsake Cider Club Member extraordinaire @ariellopezpics. Our cider is alive! #realcider #spontaneousfermentation

The murals drawn and painted on our Cidery doors b

The murals drawn and painted on our Cidery doors by artist and friend @marcel_hones are finished! Inspired by the farm and orchard, he captured Keepsake. Well done, Marcel! Suits us well. #localart #livewithnature

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