Crispin Hard Cider Company

Crispin Cider is a hard apple cider company based at and produced in Colfax, California. Imported ciders are produced in Tiverton, Devon, England.

Crispin Cider Company
Subsidiary
IndustryAlcoholic beverage
Founded2004
FounderJoe and Lesley Heron
Headquarters
Chicago
,
United States
ProductsHard ciders
Production output
6 million bottles (2010)[1]
Revenue$5 million (2010)[1]
ParentMillerCoors
DivisionsFox Barrel Cider
Websitewww.crispincider.com

Crispin was formerly located in Minneapolis. The company acquired Fox Barrel Cider in 2010. The purchase included its cidery in Colfax where the company is now headquartered. In early 2011, Crispin began importing a dry English cider, Browns Lane (named after the original Jaguar factory in Coventry), from England. In 2012, Crispin was acquired by MillerCoors.[2] The founders of Crispin went on to open Copper & Kings American Brandy in 2014.

Ingredients

Sourcing apples from the Pacific Northwest, Crispin uses fresh pressed, unpasteurized pure apple juice, and does not have preservatives or added malt, distilled spirit, or grape alcohol.[1] Three to five apple varieties are used in their main line, mainly Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and Washington. A number of ciders are finished with a specialty sweetener or produced with a particular strain of yeast. All ciders are certified as gluten-free.[3]

Their English cider, Browns Lane, is made with traditional English bittersweet cider apples that are sourced in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire. It is also gluten-free.

Varieties

12oz bottle products

Blue Line ciders are sold in four-packs of 12 ounce bottles.

  • Original
  • Brut
  • Pacific Pear
  • Blackberry Pear

22oz bottle products
  • The Saint
  • Honey Crisp
  • Annual Barrel Aged

Kegs products 1/6th & 1/2 BBL
  • Original
  • Pacific Pear
  • Blackberry Pear

16oz can products
  • Original
  • Browns Lane

Imports

Artisanal reserves

All of the Artisanals are unfiltered ciders produced using various yeasts and are packaged in 22 ounce bottles.

References
  1. Gorvin, Sarah "Start-up Crispin Cider aims to capture biggest slice of hard cider business", 'Star Tribune, June 14, 2010.
  2. "MillerCoors buys Crispin, Mpls. maker of hard cider". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  3. Norton, James "In their own words: Joe Heron of Crispin Cider", 'Heavy Table, May 8, 2009.
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