BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) - Eckert's is getting into the adult beverage game with a newly-announced line of hard ciders, made from fruit grown at the farm.
The family farm and country store in Belleville is releases four kinds of hard ciders available for purchase. Eckert’s partnered with Brick River Cider Co. the city’s first dedicated cidery, to turn their farm-fresh fruit into a farm-to-can hard cider line.
The flavors are:
• Well Red (strawberry apple)
• Berried Alive (blackberry apple)
• Peach and Quiet (peach apple)
• Roadcider (apple)
Eckert’s will also open their own cidery, called Eckert’s CiderWorks, on-site at the Belleville farm in the next year.
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“For years, guests have asked us to create a line of hard ciders and the demand only increased after we added the cider press,” says Vice President of Retail Operations, Angie Eckert. “With the growing popularity of canned alcoholic beverages, and restrictions and pivots on our pick-your-own fruit season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided that 2020 was a good time to dedicate efforts to bringing this idea to life. The goal was to combine the most loved aspects of our farm — our pick-your-own fruits and apple cider — to our guests in a delicious adult beverage. The line of hard cider also brings new opportunities for us here at the farm and we look forward to sharing those with our guests over the next few months.”
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