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Alpenfire Orchards and Cidery is a family-owned organic estate cidery based just outside Port Townsend, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. It grows, presses, and ferments English and French bittersweet and bittersharp cider apples in its organic estate orchard, handcrafting cider, pommeau, and vinegars. The cidery describes itself as the West coast's first organic estate cidery and offers a tasting room at its estate orchard.

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American Vinegar Works is a small team of craft vinegar makers producing raw, barrel-aged, naturally fermented vinegars. They revived a production method from 1823, rebuilding 19th-century fermentation equipment in partnership with local universities. Their vinegar works is housed in the blacksmith shop of an old textile mill complex in New England on the National Register of Historic Places, and all vinegars are made, aged and bottled in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Barbarian Brewing is Boise's original barrel house, specializing in sour and barrel aged beers. Serving Boise and Garden City since 2015, it handcrafts small-batch beers and operates a Garden City Taproom and a Downtown Beer Bar in Boise, Idaho.

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Brewyard Beer Company is a Southern California based micro brewery in Glendale, CA that creates unique Filipino and Japanese inspired craft beers. Founded by Sherwin and Kirk, it opened on December 5, 2015 as Glendale's first micro-brewery, operating in a converted warehouse with an open-layout taproom where visitors can follow the brewing process.

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Cornish Cider Company is a small cellar cidery located on 20 acres of young orchard, field, and forest in Cornish, Maine USA. Owners Jacqueline and Jared Carr focus on creating ciders made from wild yeasts and wild seedling apple varieties found in and around Cornish along with specific apples from local orchards. As a small family-run cidery, they self-distribute their ciders around the state of Maine.

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Dark Island Distillery is a family-owned distillery in Alexandria Bay, New York, in the heart of the Thousand Islands. It handcrafts premium spirits from grain to glass, with 75% of ingredients sourced from New York State farms. Its distinctive music maturation process exposes spirits to carefully selected music during aging to enhance flavor profiles.

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Est is a women-owned and women-farmed Oregon wine label crafting small-batch, place-driven wines. Winemaker Meredith Bell makes natural wines from grapes grown at Leland Vineyard, a four-acre farm outside Oregon City planted in 1982, farmed organically and regeneratively. The wines are fermented with wild yeasts and aged in neutral French oak.

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