New Merch!
We don’t have pretty pictures yet but we do have new merch! It was a lot of fun designing some new t-shirts and the first time, a Haykin hoodie! We are adding them to our Vinoshipper site but you can definitely get them in the tasting room too!
The first row are our “side tree” shirts. The tree is on the back left side of the shirt.
The second row are our “est 2018” shirts. There is a logo on the back yoke.
The last row are our cool hoodies with the tree on the back left side.
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
It’s here. Our FIFTH anniversary!! How did that happen? This journey has been crazy and it feels simultaneously like forever ago and just yesterday. And if it’s the cidery’s fifth anniversary, that means it’s our daughter’s fifth birthday too! I joke often that I consider them twins as Eva was born 6 days after we opened the doors.
Boulder Hewes Crabapple
One day in 2014, Dan stumbled upon two apple trees growing the most interesting crabapples in a historic neighborhood in Boulder. They were tart, tannic, beautifully perfumed and epically water cored. The trees were 30 feet tall and very old, maybe a century or more. Their trunks were hollowed, they were nearing the end of their lives.
Want To Join Our Market Team?
Haykin Family Cider is looking for new friendly faces to join our Market Team. We are looking for fun, dynamic, and excited apple enthusiasts to help taste and sell cider at farmers markets around Denver and Boulder and in our tasting room!
If you like being outdoors, chatting with foodies, shocking people with how cool apples are, impressing "non-cider" people with delicious cider, and being the face of an award-winning local company, then this could be the position for you!
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
What a crazy ride this year (these two years?) has been! We started to feel some normalcy this year, life started to come back a little bit. We are so excited so celebrate our fourth year with you in person again. It’s one of our favorite times of the year - getting to meet our customers and talk cider and life.
This year we expanded to some local markets, we gained some new staff, our club grew, and we kept learning to pivot and pivot. Our kids grew and we added a new Haykin to the team.
As ever, we are thankful to our club members and all of our customers for your support. Your belief in us means the world.
Cheers to another amazing year of growth (both in cider and kids) and making new cider friends!
So join us for our fourth anniversary party!
1/29/2022 from 5-10pm
Special menu for the party!
Special library release bottles (limit 1 per person - many are very SMALL quantities!)
Celebrate four awesome years with Dan and Talia!
Appalachian Apple Hunter
Here’s a fascinating article from Atlas Obscura about Tom Brown, an Appalachian apple hunter who has rescued 1000 varieties from disappearing! It’s an interesting piece that shows how important this work is and why we don’t have much longer to get information from our elders.
Commercial orchards in the U.S. grew about 14,000 unique apple varieties in 1905, and most of them could be found in Appalachia, says William Kerrigan, author of Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard and a professor of American history at Muskingum University.
Third Anniversary (no party) :(
Well, 2020 has struck again, even if it is 2021. I saw a meme that said “2021 is just 2020 with bangs” and it just feels so accurate. We are so bummed that we won’t be able to have an anniversary party this year.
Last year, I wrote this whole blog about all the things we accomplished in the year prior. We couldn’t do any of those things this year. Not a one…
Last year we had such an amazing time celebrating our cidery with all of you, our cider friends, for our anniversary. It’s our favorite night of the year. Both Dan and I get such a wonderful feeling when we get to chat with you and drink with you. That’s been a huge challenge for us this year - beyond the business difficulties and navigating our new reality, not getting to connect with our customers has been really hard.
So this year, our kids have grown, our staff has changed, and we have learned how to survive in the weirdest year in our memory. We have pivoted to a lot of direct to consumer sales and virtual tastings with our friend Colleen from Behind The Rind. We have worked to get our ciders in many more liquor stores so you have access locally and added home delivery.
At the end of the day - and the end of this blog - we are here today because of you, our customers and fans around the country. We appreciate you and we can’t wait to drink with you again. Stay safe and thank you for being our Haykin Fam.
