Adam F.
Yelp
I'm really pretty disappointed that I *wasn't* as impressed, because I definitely expected to be. I'd had one of their super-limited-edition ciders at a beer event several months ago (first time I heard of them), and that one was fantastic, so I was really happy when I discovered I was staying at an airbnb basically down the street from them. Obviously it was the first thing on my list when I got to Portland, and obviously I got a flight. They had about a dozen ciders on tap when we got there, and all of them *sounded* really interesting, exactly the sort of wacky stuff I love seeing from craft places, so it was a hard choice picking 6 from the list (a flight is any 6 ciders of your choice, for $17.)
Then I sampled the 6 I chose, and I thought they were all pretty good, but none of them were amazing. This place definitely skews towards the unusual, which I like, but a lot of them were just a little *too* unusual (notably: the aquavit-aged cider, which it turns out tastes exactly like you would expect cider and aquavit together to taste like.) To be fair, I probably would also have liked it more if we hadn't happened to show up, it turned out, right as Tuesday night trivia was starting, meaning it was almost impossible to find a seat, and we couldn't really ask too many questions because they were mega-busy. I probably could have asked for a couple splashes first, though, but it was cider! I never have cider I don't love! (It still wasn't *bad* though, it just didn't live up to my admittedly very high expectations, mostly.)