Winners To Be Announced at Ceremony in Portland
June 11th – On Thursday, June 20th, the NW Cider Cup will unveil this year’s best Northwest made ciders, hailing from OR, WA, ID, MT and British Columbia at an awards party in SE Portland. Now in its 11th year, the NW Cider Cup is the country’s most stringent cider competition, judging ciders from the nation’s largest apple growing region.
“Mark your calendar, because this is THE competition for finding the best local and regional ciders,” says Emily Ritchie of the NW Cider Association, the trade non-profit that organizes the Cup. OSU’s Food Innovation Center recently conducted a study that found thousands of locals are eager to drink cider but lack guidelines for how to find their preferred styles. The NW Cider Cup aspires to help demystify cider styles and determine quality standards in order to help consumers select the best and find what they like.
Competitive and highly respected, the NW Cider Cup brings in judges both nationally and internationally to evaluate entries and provide constructive peer-to-peer feedback to cider and perry makers. Each year, judges participate in general and sensory training then conduct an all-day blind judging. This year’s winners will be announced at the public awards ceremony and posted on nwcider.com following the ceremony.
WHEN: 5-8pm Thursday, June 20, 2024 NW Cider Cup Awards Party
WHERE: Holocene 1001 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR 97214
HOW: Visit nwcidercup.com for details, reserve your tickets for the Awards Party, or follow along on Instagram at @nwcider, @
