This Washington-based cidery’s Vancouver outpost offers modern-style ciders and hard teas in the heart of downtown. The taproom is family friendly, and visitors can partake in flights and hot sandwiches while the kids stay entertained with board games and a Lego wall. Ciders range from a semi-dry cold-press apple to fun seasonal options like chai cider and summery watermelon. Stop by during happy hour, on weekdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for $7 pints.

At this Pearl District cider house, flights are available with four or six pours — the Pacific Northwestern-dominated cider menu makes customization easy with its 32 options divided into categories such as semi-dry/dry and semi-sweet/sweet. When it comes to bites, the menu offers soft pretzels with cheese sauce, a cider-infused pulled chicken sandwich, and personal pizzas.

Cidermaker Christine Walter hails from a five-generation-run farm that has been homesteading their land since 1895. Walter picked up her great-grandfather’s cidermaking tradition and uses estate-grown apples; her ciders have won international awards. Bauman’s Portland taproom pours over 15 of the cidery’s flavors, like the French bittersweet blend Reine des Pommes and the Alora, a brew featuring golden raspberry and fresh hops. Cafe Olli alumnus chef Daniel Green’s food is not to be missed — especially the umami-rich bleu cheese dip with chips and the rye toast topped with creme fraiche, onion, and smoked salmon caught by the chef and cidermaker themselves.

La Familia, Spanish for “the family,” is very much a family operation. Drawing inspiration from Mexican aguas frescas, the Gonzalez family blends matriarch Lourdes’s jamaica and tamarind juice recipes with a cider base made with Pacific Northwestern apples. The Salem-born cidery expanded to Portland in July 2024 — at the Hawthorne Boulevard taproom, patrons sample flights of La Familia’s four flavors and drink cider-based cocktails like mangonada cidertinis and jamaica margaritas while munching on quesadillas made with Three Sisters Nixtamal tortillas and Don Froylan Creamery queso Oaxaca.

Cider drinkers know this Brooklyn neighborhood taproom for its cozy, living room vibes, replete with plants and armchairs. The Place focuses on dry ciders, pouring selections like Stray Gold Past Life from Oregon and Yonder ciders out of Wenatchee Valley, Washington, which is known as the “apple capital of the world.” At the back of the bar, retail coolers stock hard-to-find ciders, international beers, and natural wines.

Despite opening in 2022, the family behind this cidery has been in the apple business for four generations, running the nearby Oregon Heritage Farms. Build a four-cider flight with flavors like an aromatic honeycrisp, citrusy yuzu plum, semi-dry blood orange sage, and floral-fruity blackberry lavender. Enjoy a fresh hot pretzel served with house-made cider cheese inside the converted barn-turned-tasting room, or take in some fresh air on the back patio, which offers an idyllic view of a miniature railway and trestle bridge.