The most recent enterprise from the staff behind the orchard-to-bottle Bauman’s Cider Firm will kick off its opening weekend April 19-21, 2024
Portland, Oregon (April 15, 2024)— Bauman’s Cider Firm, the award-winning, Gervais, Oregon-based cidery, is happy to announce the grand opening of their extremely anticipated Portland tasting room and vacation spot cider restaurant, Bauman’s on Oak. The tasting room and restaurant, located inside their new Portland-based cidery, (within the former Ecliptic Moon Room spot on SE Oak Avenue) will have a good time their grand opening Friday, April 19 via Sunday, April 21 throughout enterprise hours.
Based in 2016 by Christine Walter, Bauman’s Cider Co has rapidly gained recognition for its dedication to crafting each trendy and conventional ciders on their property cidery. With a legacy rooted within the apple orchards and berry farms of the Bauman household homestead (based in 1895) within the Willamette Valley, Christine’s imaginative and prescient for Bauman’s Cider Co has elevated the cider trade, incomes worldwide acclaim and positioning her as a frontrunner within the discipline. Within the eight years since its founding, Bauman’s has garnered over 155 medals for its ciders on the nationwide and worldwide stage, and received 4 consecutive titles of mid-sized cidery of the 12 months at two of essentially the most prestigious cider competitions within the US.
The launch of Bauman’s on Oak marks the opening of a world-class cider expertise in downtown Portland, and the subsequent chapter in Christine’s entrepreneurial rise. At Bauman’s on Oak, Christine will collaborate with shut good friend Chef Daniel Inexperienced, former founding associate at Portland’s esteemed Cafe Olli, to create an unparalleled culinary and cider menu. The menu takes inspiration from Christine’s childhood rising up on the farm, and builds on Daniel’s depth of expertise as a sourdough baker and fermentation knowledgeable. Simplicity, taste, and texture are key. Company will savor a wide range of dishes made with locally-sourced, seasonal substances, and crafted by hand with conventional strategies. Pattern menu gadgets embody house-made herb butter and sourdough bread, meats cured in-house by Daniel and the Bauman’s staff, and brown rice with wild mushrooms and fermented mustard greens. Fermented grains and breads play a giant half on the menu, with vegetarian and gluten free dishes out there too.
Along with Daniel Inexperienced’s management as Head Chef, the Bauman’s on Oak culinary staff is stacked with Portland expertise. Chris Leimena leads the entrance of home as Normal Supervisor, and has labored with a few of Portland’s greatest eating places together with Higgins, Langbaan, and most just lately Le Pigeon/Canard. Within the kitchen, Yakira Batres helps Daniel Inexperienced as Sous Chef, most just lately of Hiyu Wine Farm. The menu, crafted to spotlight cider pairings, will showcase Bauman’s ciders alongside among the area’s greatest farms and artisanal producers. This consists of produce sourced from Bauman Farms, the place the orchards that present fruit for a lot of Bauman’s Cider are situated, in addition to Bauman’s Cider’s manufacturing area for his or her harvest-driven, seasonal small batch cider program.
“Our restaurant and tasting room,” shares Christine Walter, “is a love letter to the cider neighborhood. However the factor concerning the cider neighborhood is, everyone seems to be welcome. So whether or not you’re cider-obsessed, cider-curious, or just in search of a great meal with family and friends, we’d like to have you ever in to dine with us.” The format of Bauman’s on Oak hospitality expertise permits for vary: visitors can dive into guided cider flights, culinary and cider pairings, or just take pleasure in a glass of one in every of Oregon’s most-awarded ciders on the bar. Along with the sturdy menu, Bauman’s on Oak will characteristic over 30 faucets (together with visitor ciders, beer, and wines from different native makers), desk service, and downtown patio views excellent for spring sunshine. Each cider flights and pours can be found, and visitors are inspired to ask the workers for pairing suggestions.
Collectively, the staff is cultivating a particular communion between meals and cider, the place emphasis is positioned on intentionality, cautious sourcing, and a time-tested methodology that upends expectations about cider. Bauman’s ensures that this won’t be your typical PNW taproom, however a global cider vacation spot that celebrates cider as an expression of season, place, and time.
The general public is invited to hitch the Grand Opening enjoyable this Friday, April nineteenth via Sunday, April twenty second. The Bauman’s staff will probably be holding raffles for particular prizes all weekend, together with excursions, pie specials, and extra surprises.
Bauman’s on Oak Opening Menu Pattern
Brined and Roasted Hazelnuts 5
Sourdough Bread w/Caramelized Onion Butter 7
Add Cured Trout Roe +7
Pickles, Spring Crudite, Dip 12
Cured Sardines, Radish, Herbs 14
Stracciatella, Olive, Radish, Seeded Cracker 13
Smoked Salmon, Créme Fraîche, Rye Bread 15
Crab Roll, Miso Mayonnaise, Potato Bread 16
Roasted Beets, Ricotta, Nettle Salsa, Dukkah 17
Asparagus, Potato, Raab, Inexperienced Garlic Hollandaise, Bacon 18
Brown Rice, Mushroom Confit, Mustard Greens 17
Braised Pork, Mayacoba Beans, Creamed Leeks 24
Chocolate Basque Cake 8
Buttermilk Panna Cotta, Rhubarb, Apple Syrup 8
Bauman’s Cider is an award-winning American cider firm primarily based in Oregon, based in 2016 and led by Head Cidermaker Christine Bauman Walter. Impressed by her childhood amongst the apple timber on her household’s farm, homesteaded in 1895 in Oregon, Christine noticed a possibility to create one thing that didn’t exist in America’s cider trade west of the Mississippi: a famend property cidery that specialised in each trendy and conventional ciders. At Bauman’s, Christine and her staff discover the entire spectrum of cider-making, from large and vibrant Imperials to complicated and age-worthy single varietals. This inclusive and modern outlook, mixed with Christine’s distinct capacity to let the apples and the land communicate via her cidermaking, is the linchpin in Bauman’s Cider’s meteoric rise within the trade. Within the eight years since its founding, Bauman’s has garnered over 150 medals for its ciders and received 4 consecutive titles of mid-sized cidery of the 12 months at two of essentially the most prestigious cider competitions within the US. Along with her cidermaking, Christine is the Board President of the American Cider Affiliation and sits on the board of the Cider Institute of North America. Christine travels the globe tirelessly on behalf of the cider trade, all the time seeking new producers, new cider inspiration, and new methods to uplift the world of cider to the broader ingesting neighborhood. At each contact level, Christine and her staff search to upend expectations about American cider, and create a brighter future for the trade at giant. Bauman’s Cider is distributed all through the Pacific Northwest and out there for buy nationwide at baumanscider.com.
Bauman’s Cider Places
At Bauman’s Farm and Backyard
12989 Howell Prairie Rd NE
Gervais, OR 97026
Spring Hours of Operation:
Mon- Sat, 9am – 5pm
Bauman’s on Oak
930 SE Oak St
Portland, Oregon 97214
Hours of Operation
Wed, Thurs and Solar: 2-8pm
Fri and Sat: 2-9pm
