About Us

Our story, a labour of love for over twenty years..

At the County Cider Company, we’ve been specializing in authentic hard ciders since 1995. We produce award-winning ciders carefully crafted from the very best apples grown on our family farm and nearby orchards. Made with love and 100% pure apple juice.
The family farm over-looking the shores of Prince Edward Bay, in the heart of Prince Edward County, has been producing apples since 1850. It was bought by William and Berva Howes back in the mid 1970’s. Their son Grant, took over the orchards in the early 90’s with the dream of making cider. One year later Grant had produced a cider good enough to impress the LCBO. Two years later Grant’s Cider was on store shelves across Ontario. The man who in time would become known as The Grandfather of Ontario Cider was on his way.
Today, we grow over 16 varieties of apples on our two orchards. All told that’s over 40 acres of apple trees producing roughly 1,600 tonnes of apples, which in turn produces about 350,000 litres of the good stuff, each year.
Our Tasting Room and Patio are now open for the 2019 season. The retail store and tasting room is open daily from 10am to 6pm. Our outdoor Patio Restaurant will be open 7 days/week from 11am-6pm. The patio is weather dependent so please call if there is a bad weather forecast. Please go to our website www.countycider.com for information on special events and more.
For any questions, please call our tasting room at 613-476-1022 or email info@countycider.com, cheers!