05/26/2026
“Cider & Cedar feels like an AI chatbot’s digital daydream of what a cidery should look like. Except it’s real, and it was designed by human brains and built by human hands out of solid wood and not, like medium density fiberboard.”
Sterling and I were caught off-guard when friends texted us a photo of an article they had just read about the bar in the - and promptly looked it up ourselves.
Huge shout out to whose pithy writing captured so much of what we are about- and without talking to us directly! Though I suspect Sterling was the bartender who “spoke fluent fermentation and answered [them] with cheerful aplomb” :)
“This bar feels important to me, possibly owing to its mix of beauty, sophistication, and accessibility. The PNW has always had beer cred, and wine and coffee are obviously major industries up here in the top left too, but cider still occupies a strange social space. Too rustic for cocktail snobs, too nuanced for tech bros, too fraught with peril for insecure types who interpret any fruitiness in a beverage as weakness. But…we’re the goddamned Apple State…the PNW is home to tens of dozens of small cider producers, many of which are using their own heirloom fruit to make completely unique ciders, and they have few stages to shine as brightly as they can at Cider & Cedar.”
We feel so seen. And heard- the description of our playlists is spot on 😆 Link in bio to read.
