CLACKAMAS, Oregon— Portland Cider Firm’s Unique Gold Cider took house the highest award at this 12 months’s Worldwide Brewing and Cider Awards held in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. Unique Gold, the corporate’s most-awarded cider, earned its twelfth gold medal at this 12 months’s competitors, then obtained the best-in-class trophy on the awards ceremony. That is the primary time within the competitors’s 136-year historical past {that a} United States cidery has introduced house this trophy.
“In fact, we aspire to our cider being among the many finest on the planet. However I admit, I used to be speechless after I heard that our trade friends awarded us the highest honor on the competitors,” stated Portland Cider co-founder Jeff Parrish. “The judges are all lively cidermakers from all over the world. It’s an enormous honor to be acknowledged like this by our friends, and humbling to share this award with such a protracted line of fantastic cidermakers.”
A 3-day judging course of to resolve the medal winners occurred in March 2024 at Depot Mayfield in Manchester, United Kingdom, and comprised 38 working professionals within the brewing and cidermaking industries from throughout the globe. The trophies have been awarded at what organizers confer with as “the trade’s ‘Oscars’’’ in a ceremony on Could 1 in London. Of the 115 beer and cider medals, simply 13 have been awarded trophies—one in every class. Unique Gold competed within the basic cider class.
Along with Unique Gold’s accolades, Portland Cider Firm’s personal English Pub Cider earned a silver medal on the competitors. Bauman’s Cider and a couple of Cities Cider introduced a number of medals again to Oregon, as effectively.
“I’m so proud that our firm was in a position to shine in the course of the competitors, and I feel it’s a triumph for Oregon ciders general,” stated Lynda Parrish, co-founder of Portland Cider. “For 3 Oregon cideries to carry house medals from my house nation, the birthplace of cider, speaks volumes about how robust our native cider trade is. It feels very full circle to me.”
Unique Gold, English Pub Cider, and all of Portland Cider’s creations will be discovered at retailers all through the West utilizing the Cider Finder on the corporate’s web site.
About Portland Cider Firm
Portland Cider Firm was based in 2013 to carry hand-crafted, award-winning cider to the Northwest. The corporate acknowledges Portland and her daring spirit because the inspiration behind its progressive ciders and guarantees the cleanest, tastiest, and most pleasurable cider-drinking expertise town has to supply. Portland Cider has three taproom areas within the Portland metro space, the place they encourage all to go to, pattern, and anticipate extra from the cider they drink.
