Cider Houses of Prince Edward Island

Red Island Cider

Arlington Orchards

1150 Orchard Rd
Just off the 167
Arlington, PE

Arlington Orchards is a family run farm, Eco-Apples farm, with Carol and Barry Balsom celebrating their 20th year of growing apples in 2013. They are the PEI largest orchard with 32 acres of apples, plus pears and plums equalling 50 acres.

The first of their hard cider line is "Malpeque Bay Cider", in honour of Malpeque Bay and the soft breezes and warmer conditions the Bay provides. They also make Iced Apple Cider.

Arlington Orchards was a part of a provincial study involving federal and provincial governments, researchers, and other Island apple growers that focused on using natural pollinators and not importing any honeybees. We rely on our native Prince Edward Island bees and not honeybees to pollinate our fruit crop, and since 2000 we have identified over 120 native PEI bee species.

Double Hill Cider

1319 PE-24, Montague
PE C0A 1R0

The Double Hill Cidery is located in the hills of Caledonia, Prince Edward Island. The Farm was first settled by the MacDonald family and named Double Hill for its ravine that dissects the land into two hills.

In 1993, Double Hill Farm was purchased by the Manago family.

The cidery is the brainchild of its founder, Sebastian Manago. He fell in love with ciders when he studied in France.

All of Double Hill’s 365 acres has a southern exposure which makes it ideal for growing fruit trees. The farm is named Double Hill because of a small ravine that bisects the land into two gentle hills.

The orchard includes have planted varieties such as Kingston Black, Dabinett, Yarlington Mills, Bulmers Norman, Douce Moen, Rouge Duret, Petit Jaune, Douce Coet Lignee, Medaille D’or, Somerset Redstreak, Cap of Liberty, and others

Main brand Normad

Little Pig Cidery

2100 North York
River Road Route 248
Charlottetown, PE

Little Pig Cidery is a division of Deep Roots Distillery. Mike Beamish moved to PEI in 1987 . He retired from Holland College and started a hobby farm/orchard in 1990 planting 200 apple tress. ALong to help was his wife and five children.

After some research and experimentation, Mike bought his first still and began to product Deep Roots Distillery’s flagship product, apple brandy. The award winning brandy uses only apples from the Beamish Orchard. From the roots of small batch brandy, Mike has since gone on to develop and produce over 21 different products, all using real ingredients and locally grown wherever possible. Mike is the owner/CEO of Deep Roots Distillery.

Greg is the creator of Deep Root’s line of hard ciders, Little Pig Cidery, and has had a hand in all production at the Deep Roots facility. Greg is the Production Manager for Deep Roots Distillery. He is the owner and operator of Hazel Grove Sugar Shack, where he taps 700 maple trees on his property each year and evaporates on site to produce a 100% PEI maple syrup. Greg also operates a mobile sawmill business and runs a small hobby farm of KuneKune pigs.

Red Island Cidery

101 Longwoorth Ave
Unite 5
Charlottetown, PE C1A 5A9

A small cidery in PEI capital city Charlottetown owned by Robert Hamon and James VanToever. The third cidery to open on Prince Edward Island and the only one located in Charlottetown. Last year we won "New Cidery of the Year" at the Atlantic Canadian Brewing Awards.

Robert and James met as babies and grew up not far from each other in rural P.E.I (Mayfield & New Glasgow). They share fond memories of building forts, swimming and playing sports together.

As teenagers both of their families moved away to different parts of the world. Robert started a career as a photographer and travelled the world focusing on climate change and working for clients like National Geographic Traveler and Canadian Geographic. He spent years living in Europe where he met his future wife and dance partner, Anna Keenan. In 2015 they came to PEI to raise their son and take care of family.

James moved to the US, was a professional cyclist and eventually became a physiotherapist. He practiced in Ottawa for years before meeting his future wife, Caralynn, there. On vacation in 2016 James found himself sitting on the patio of a cider house in Prince Edward County, Ontario. He found the landscape familiar; rolling hills, farmland, sandy beaches, forests. A dream was born, a cider house on Prince Edward Island.

THE DREAM
Then, as these things happen, James’s mother mentioned his dream of opening a cider house to Robert. Robert’s family had been making cider for years so the interest was there. A phone call, a meeting and Red Island Cider was born.

With the support and aid of their partners, Anna and Caralynn, the four of them worked hard to get a locally produced cider into the bars in PEI. 17 months from idea to opening at the Charlottetown location and they haven’t looked back.

Cider master: Robert Hamon

Philosophy? As the cider maker, Robert’s goal is to create traditional clean, dry ciders using 100% apple juice from the best orchards in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Like wine variations in weather, apple varietal, and individual orchards means our ciders are always going to have variations from batch to batch. What is consistent is our commitment to producing the best cider.

He is always experimenting with new ideas, new fruits, yeasts and recipes. His favourite cider is the ‘next’ cider and the goal is to always have something fresh and exciting at our tap room.

Riverdale Orchards

582 Riverdale Road, Route 245
Bonshaw, PEI C0A 1C0

Anne and Alex Jamieson arrived on Prince Edward Island from Scotland over 5 years ago looking for a change in life style. After visiting PEI on many occasions they made the leap over the pond in July 2014. They decided to turn a hobby into a business and make Cider. Cider is an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice, commonly known as Hard Apple Cider in Canada.
While waiting for the apple trees to grow they used this time wisely and honed their craft from professionals. Attending Cornell University and achieving NACM certification (National Association on of Cider Makers) was the start of their artisan craft making adventure.

2 Scots 3 Apples Cider. A Gold Award Winning, dry, lightly carbonated cider which contains only the juice of 3 Apples, No Added Sulphites, Yeasts, Sugar, Water, Hops.

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