Santa Cruz Cider Company

I've never had cider like this! Sophisticated, not sweet, alcohol forward, fresh, and crisp. We tried 9 ciders and had fun ranking them. You can buy bottles and cans to take home. We sat at the bar and chatted with one of the owners and one of the regulars. The cidery is owned by two sisters, which I think is really rad. And they use local apples and do everything themselves. Try them all! Not only is it really fun, the ciders are all different. Strawberry and Mango are my favorites when they're in season! Oh, and they're DOG FRIENDLY and have rotating food trucks. Chill place to hang. There's even a brewery (The Slough Brewing Collective) next door if you love beer.

This is my favorite place to be on a weekend afternoon! The owners are absolutely the best! The rest of the staff is outstanding. When anyone comes to visit this is the place to take them to. They are family and pet friendly. They bring in different food vendors that are also fantastic! The cider is great! Get a flight if it's your first time. My personal favorites are Don't make me Blush or a cider pop on a warm day. During the winter they have hot cider too!

I had a great time here sampling the dry ciders. Casual place to sit and chat with other folks. Best cider I’ve had outside of Paseo Robles. Live music -guitarist playing. Friendly server. Worth a stop-over if you’re in the area.

Gem! Great selection of ciders and wonderful staff. Their product is gluten-free, produced locally and created from local apples. My favorite is the hopped cider. Next door to a brewery. Kid friendly. Dog friendly. Food is available from food trucks and pop-ups. Occasional live music.

Visiting for the official grand opening and really enjoying all of the ciders! Not usually a cider drinker but these are dry and well-balanced. If you love cider you should come and check this place out.

Amazing Cidery! Large selection of locally brewed Ciders. All the Ciders we got to taste were very well balanced, nothing overly sweet, which is hard to come by usually. They were all incredibly rich in flavors and with a fair amount of bitterness. On top of that, the staff is really nice and highly knowledgeable! All in all, this is a really high quality place, highly recommend it, and will be back for more!

I love this place so much! Their cider is fantastic to say the least. A ton of different varieties, including a cider with hops!! Very yummy and cool. Places to sit inside and outside, but it's limited. Family friendly too, can't go wrong with that. And omg the food truck outside is AMAZING. Update 2023: every time I come here I'm amazed by something else. This time it's the prices and variety. A whole sampler flight of 8 ciders is $20, a steal. The variety is amazing, every single one is my new favorite. Honestly this place is the most underrated cidery/brewery in the area.

Great place to hang out and meet new people. Always something going on with food trucks, entertainment and special events. Amazing ciders and plushies! Amazing owners, come support a great local business!

My favorite hot spiced apple cider! I wish I could take a keg home. Service was good in a brewery style environment. There's also a brewery right next door haha I LOVE that they have Gravenstein ciders. I imagine I will be returning very soon to indulge some more :-]

Larry is awesome. We've pulled up out front and I knew that we were looking at the cider bar because it was the first one we came to and it didn't have beer signs all over it. It is sharing a space with a brewery and I recommend you see both of your best worlds, but my family and I are cider heads. And we totally like the fact that they decorated for Halloween with properly placed skeletons in the room we enjoyed taking pictures with them. As you walk through the entrance, the first thing you smell is popcorn. They have a popcorn machine there and let the guests have free popcorn if they like. Everyone of my family loves popcorn. The thing I thought was really great is we could bring our dog in and they're very dog friendly. We have a nice sweet little dog. We knew there wouldn't be any problems with guests. They were tasting eight ciders that day. So we ordered a flight of eight so we could taste all their varietals on sample. I tried the wooden tooth special and the sweet tooth and strawberry and oh snap and Newtown Pippin and don't make me blush and pretty in pink and tropical burn. My personal faves were the first two and I also liked the don't make me blush. I was so impressed with the cider which I bought two bottles of their Gravenstein, which you cannot get a tasting up because of the supply left is low. I'm really looking forward to tasting those at home. Awesome all around. Now on my radar.

I enjoy cider, though typically don't get it much, and will confess as being kind of ignorant as to how different and good it can really be. But I got a great lesson in that regard after visiting Santa Cruz Cider. There are all sorts of libations on offer here, in many different styles, so you are sure to find something to please your pallet. I wound up going with a large flight, and found some real gems on their menu. The Wooden Tooth is one of their mainstays, and has a good balance of dryness and sweetness. Several of their other entries take this base and get infused with other flavors, such as the Oh Snap, with ginger, and the Don't Make Me Blush, which is a most excellent pomegranate-infused cider. There are also some very delightful concoctions like the wild-fermented Wild Side Gravenstein, and the Lot 24, with emphasis on using all local apples. But the two which impressed me the most were the Sweet Tooth, and the Ciderkin. The first being their dry cider with fresh juice added, making a good balanced tasting drink with lower ABV. Also on the lower ABV end, the Ciderkin is a second-run ferment, only clocking in at 2.5%, and is most refreshing on warm sunny days. And while I was not able to try them this time around, the menu also includes things like Hot Mulled Cider, and Cider Slushies. I'll put a pin in those for next time. In all, I liked pretty much everything on offer here! Beyond the drinks, the location is just my kind of place. I love little hole-in-the-wall spots, and this certainly qualifies. There's definite charm here, and if the weather is nice, you should take a seat outside and enjoy your refreshments. Plus, the service here was outstanding and very friendly! Prices for everything are decent, though proportionally a bit higher than if you were drinking beer, since most of their pours are smaller sized. They sell several of their ciders to-go in individual cans and 4-packs, too, and I just had to bring some back with me. So all in all, I am very happy to have found these folks. I am for sure looking forward to my next visit, and I highly recommend any craft brew hunters in the area have them on their radar. Cheers!

Super chill, good cider, hidden locale - all of the things that would appeal to a certain breed of foodies and craftees, I think. I'm not much of a drinker, nor do I frequent spots like this so, take my opinion for what it is... amateur at best. But hey, I liked it. Their cider seemed refreshing and light. Might see ya there!

You've never had cider like this! Sophisticated, not sweet, alcohol forward, fresh, and crisp. We tried 9 ciders and had fun ranking them. You can buy bottles and cans to take home. We sat at the bar and chatted with one of the owners and one of the regulars. The cidery is owned by two sisters, which I think is really rad. And they use local apples and do everything themselves. Try them all! Not only is it really fun, the ciders are all different. Oh, and they're DOG FRIENDLY and have rotating food trucks. Chill place to hang. There's even a brewery (The Slough Brewing Collective) next door if you love beer.

These gals are great! So impressed with how much they get done with their limited worker force. While I don't always enjoy their fermenting choices, I generally trust their brand as representing quality, complexity, and locally sourced. My only critique is that they have some quality control issues with their bottled products. Sometimes they're quite skunked (it's happened several times), but I understand that be the result of the retail outlet and not them.

If you like ciders on the dryer side, this is the place to be. Had a wonderful visit here this last weekend and definitely recommend a visit. I tend to lean in the middle on the dry to sweet cider scale and the owner was very friendly and knowledgeable. She helped me pick what I might like and I got so excited and decided on the flight. My favorite cider hands down was the pomegranate cider, it was perfect and I took a four pack to go. They have board games too! Great way to spend an afternoon.

I had a great time here sampling the dry ciders. Casual place to sit and chat with other folks. Best cider I've had outside of Paso Robles. Live music -guitarist playing. Friendly server. Worth a stop-over if you're in the area.

This place was amazing!! They are so friendly here and also a great selection of ciders! There was even a slushy cider as well and there was the slough brewery next door for those beer people

What a cool place to stop for a drink. It was a bit hard to find just because it's in a very industrial area. The place that it's located at is pretty much a warehouse redone. But I really did enjoy the drinks here. It's right next to a brewery so you have options to go between the two. I personally ordered the eight flavor flight so I can try every single cider that they had. My personal flavors were the strawberry apple and also the sweet tooth. Although I'm not a huge fan of cider, in this case, I was definitely craving something refreshing having just came off of a 8 mile hike. My only reason for not giving five stars is the fact that the food showed up a little bit late. On the website, we were led to believe that there would be a food truck there when we arrived. But it didn't show up until about 1:30. But once it did come, the tacos were absolutely delicious and the cider paired well with the food from the food truck. I did enjoy this place and I would definitely come back again.

Whooooo!!! Loooove their cider. First tried their cider after buying it at the Downtown SC Farmer's Market. So dope to check out their location!!! I tried their prickly pear cider which was soo yummy and juicy. But their Gravenstein Cider is probably my favorite cider EVER. It's crisp, dry, tart with a very distinct fresh apple flavor. Absolutely stunning, I got three bottles to take home. Highly recommend checking this place out, it's a must!!!! They have food pop ups regularly too, I went on a Friday when My mom's mole was there!! There's also a beer brewery next door that shares the outdoor seating if someone in your group isn't into ciders. So no excuses!!! hahah

I was very excited upon seeing this place on Yelp because I love cider and always try to visit cideries wherever I visit. Like the majority of breweries/cideries in the area, it is located in an industrial area but the inside although small, was done up nicely and was open to the gorgeous weather. This is a brand new establishment, opening just three weeks prior according to the bartender. A small bar is present along with some wine barrel seating. There was a good group of people at the bar and a few sitting around which is a good sign. Dogs are also welcome! My family and I decided to order the 8 drink flight ($18) and get a taste of the whole menu. To our dismay, out of the 8, each of us only really liked one. We each liked a different one which spoke to our individual tastes but no one in my party was wowed by the taste of any of them. The majority are all fairly dry but honestly they weren't flavor forward. My top was the Wooden Tooth Special, my dad enjoyed the Sweet Tooth, my brother liked the Watermelon Mint, and my mother didn't really have a favorite. All in all, we left wanting Maybe it's the type of cider they make, maybe it's because they are brand new, maybe it's another reason, either way, although the atmosphere was nice, the drinks here were not for us. I would still say people should go on out and give them your business because honestly this type of cider might be just up your alley, unfortunately for us, it was not.

Some of the ciders tasted watery, but others: (the Wild Gravenstein, the Oh Snap!, and the Sweet Tooth) had great flavor. Really cute place

We visited today, the location itself was very quiet which I really appreciated. The ciders were great! I ordered the 8 cider flight and split it with a friend. We were able to taste all of their ciders offered. Great prices, great staff, dog friendly, they take credit cards, they have bathrooms. Honestly, what more can you ask for?

We really enjoyed our time here. We tried the eight option flight. I enjoyed their wooden tooth and strawberry apple ciders. The best part was the wooden tooth cider with a strawberry popsicle! You have to try the cider with the popsicle. As it melts it changes the flavor and each sip gets better and better!

This place is amazing! The sisters are very friendly and the service is terrific! They are very knowledgeable about ciders and make you feel right at home! A great place for both people and pets. They have food trucks in rotation; when I went they had a baked potato and kettle corn vendor. I tried the Cidermosa and it was very refreshing. Even got another one to go. Reasonably priced quality ciders well worth your time. Great place to unwind after work, catch up with friends, etc... Please support them, they're awesome!

We stayed for a tasting of all 8 ciders! I loved the strawberry cider. After tasting we bought one to go and enjoyed it at the beach. Beautiful day!

Amazing cider and yummy arepas When the truck is parked across. Delicious options and easy to try flights

Enjoying a Santa Cruz Cider (first time trying) in my backyard in SoCal on this sweltering afternoon with my wife .Much thanks to my amigo and fellow ER RN Daniel for the gift pack of ciders and to Amanda who so generously donated them to first responders. I'm on two of five and this stuff is super goooood! If the rest are as good as these, then we are sold!!! Thank you and happy drinking!

I LOVE their CIDER! love Watermelon! it's a good place and outdoor seating(yes because of Covid!), have had no problems with them at all! it's been good all the time. They are friendly, Natalie and also Nicole! both ROCK! and I consider them friends! Love it, its good for the TUMMY oh really? lol? kidding, but it is very good ...

The woman helping us today was so helpful! We got the flight, the ciders are definitely on the dryer side. Even the sweet ones, but we most enjoyed theStrawberry and the watermelon ones.

So much fun! Cute and cozy, delicious cider!!! Great place for a girls night. Best cider and tasting room plus fantastic service.

They have a great variety of ciders. I think most of them are from local orchards. The owners are friendly and knowledgeable. It is pet friendly. It's an overall chill place.

Awesome cider and a fun spot for an outdoor tasting during Covid. Definitely have to try the Strawberry Apple Cider. And don't forget to grab a bowl of cider next door from the Costal Foods Company to go with your cider!