BY PAM HUNT
CITIZEN CIDER BRANCHES OUT
F R O M F R U I T TO F R U I T I O N : F I L L I N G A “ P R E S S I N G ” N E E D
“If somebody is growing cherries and wants to juice them, we’ll be able to do it.” 14
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ince its founding in 2010, Citizen Cider has proven that the market for hard ciders is solid—and not only in Vermont. The cidery ships its colorful cans throughout New England and to New Jersey, the metro Philadelphia area, North and South Carolina, Illinois, and parts of New York.
The cider company had pressed all its locally grown apples at Stan
and Mary Pratt’s Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury since 2011. Every week, two or three tanker trailers, each labeled like a giant horizontal can of Unified Press, would make their way north up Route 7 to the Citizen Cider production facility on Pine Street in Burlington.