Cider Tasting with Freedom's Edge Cider
A Fall Favorite
Join us for a fall favorite as we welcome Freedom's Edge Cider, makers of small-batch, handcrafted hard cider from Albion, Maine, for an evening of cider tasting and good company at 45 North.
Cider Done Right
Freedom's Edge Cider is traveling its way north from Albion, Maine, to Sugarloaf, where they'll offer a free afternoon cider tasting at 45 North.
Sip your way through their lineup of thoughtfully crafted ciders, made from over 30 apple varieties grown with real tradition here in Maine, and enter a raffle to win some exciting Freedom's Edge swag.
After the tasting, enjoy a pint alongside Chef-curated specials made just for the occasion, while sitting back to enjoy live music from Robin Cottle.
This event is free to attend, and all are welcome—come thirsty!
Cider Done Right
Freedom’s Edge Cider started in 2018 as a series of less-than-sober, late-night, conversations between brothers-in-law Ned Ervin and Andy Kaplan.
Ned is a former chemical engineer and professional chef who has been making cider in his garage since before he was old enough to drink it (“I figured out,” he says, “that they wouldn’t sell you the finished product but they’d sell you the ingredients.”).
Early that fall, Andy had begun noticing, on trips from his home in Camden to Ned’s in Waterville, that every road was lined with wild apple trees. Some research into Maine’s cider history & culture taught us that Maine had once produced some of the finest cider in the world, owing to its ideal apple-growing climate.