Downeast Cider House is an American craft hard cider company based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 2011, by recent graduates of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The reason for the company's founding was to allow the founders to avoid finding "real" jobs after college and making a hard cider taste like freshly pressed apple juice.
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History
Originally, the three founders (Ross Brockman, Tyler Mosher, and Ben Manter), wanted to call the company, Three Idiots, but found that name was taken. As they were starting in Maine, they then decided to name their cider house with the term Downeast, which is a nautical term as well as a noun, as in "Downeasters".
After Ben left, Ross's brother, Matt Brockman, joined the company. A rhyming history of the company, from their beginnings in a dorm room at Bates College to their move into their present Charlestown-located cider house, is illustrated in cartoons on the company's website.
Downeast Cider House has been located in three different production facilities. The first was located in the Central Maine Power mill in Waterville, Maine. The second was a warehouse in Leominster, MA. The current is in Charlestown, Boston, MA. The next facility, currently under construction, is located in Jeffries Point, Boston.
Specialty
Downeast Cider House constantly and unpredictably offers small batch one-offs of cider ranging from barrel aged to pomegranate flavored from a mango blend to a hard lemonade. Hard Lemonade returned from its status as a one-off seasonal blend in 2015 to be offered as a limited run during in the summer of 2016.