Abel Methode Cider is made by us in small quantities, crafted from 100% apples and pears. We hand harvest tree-ripened fruit, crush it, then ferment until dry. This is quite different from your usual cider as we ferment the skins, stalks, pips and all, to maximize fruit aromatics and flavour. Abel cider is unfined and unfiltered. This basically means we allow our cider to naturally clarify via gravity to retain character. It's fermented in the bottle, like champagne. This natural carbonation gives a finer bubble which retains the aromas and flavours. Bottle fermentation adds complexity and texture, as well as giving cloudiness from the natural yeast sediment that remains.

Our cider is dry as this is the way we like to drink it - refreshing and full of flavour! ENJOY You have a couple of options when it comes to enjoying a bottle of Abel Methode Cider: EITHER...Place bottle upright in the fridge overnight, the colder the better. This will allow the natural sediment to settle to the bottom of the bottle. When you're ready to drink it, pour the clear cider (everything but the settled sediment) into a champagne flute or wine glass of your choice. OR...If you like cloudy cider, invert the bottle a couple of times then pour away!

A sweet-sharp apple that with a classic apple aroma, reminiscent of ripe and waxy apples. The resulting cider is characterised by its perfume and juicy acidity. Overall perception of the cider and its finish is dry.

5.2% ABV

Made with sweet, tangy apples and fruity notes, this smooth, chewy cider with fresh apples will go perfectly with your fruit pies and other pastries.

2% ABV.

K.I.S.S. - KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID! 

Clean, aromatic new world cider. Just local Nelson apples with minimum interference. Showcasing the apple, ripe fruit with a fresh lingering finish.

DRY - 5.6% ABV

For all you citrus & botanical fans out there. A bright refreshing style that offers everything you are looking for in real cider. KAFFIR LIME, LEMON & JUNIPER

Prepare to relax.

 5.8% ABV

MIXED BERRY

Step1: Take our clean, new world cider.
Step2: Add our special mix of local Nelson berries.
Step3: Enjoy.

5.6% ABV

Enjoy the delicious taste of New Zealand's first non-alcoholic cider made with specialist cider apples with the alcohol removed after fermentation.

This pioneering non-alcoholic cider has been created using state-of-the-art technology to remove the alcohol from one of our apple ciders meaning you still get the distinctive taste of proper craft cider, but without the alcohol.

Apples: Kingston Black and Knotted Kernel

Residual sweetness: approximately 30g/L

<0.5% abv

Serve: Serve Cool (7 - 10?C)

5.7% ABV.

Rochdale - Our Classic Pear Cider is brewed using Rochdale's authentic recipe and pure glacial water.  A bouquet of fresh, sun-ripened fruit combined with a subtle dryness and gentle effervescence to ensure a flowing texture is maintained from the first sip.

Scoundrels and Rogues - Sometimes, bigger is better.  Made by the most irrepressible Scoundrels and Rogues in North Canterbury.  This 2016 Imperial Cider is made from one batch selected out of that year Pleasantly Corrupted cider.  It spent eighteen months in barrel, meaning it is intense, it has got a character, and despite its 10.9% alcohol, it is so drinkable it could only be evil.

This cider is handmade and mildly offensive, but you'll get over it.

Abel Methode Cider is made by us in small quantities, crafted from 100% apples and pears. We hand harvest tree-ripened fruit, crush it, then ferment until dry. This is quite different from your usual cider as we ferment the skins, stalks, pips and all, to maximize fruit aromatics and flavour. Abel cider is unfined and unfiltered. This basically means we allow our cider to naturally clarify via gravity to retain character. It's fermented in the bottle, like champagne. This natural carbonation gives a finer bubble which retains the aromas and flavours. Bottle fermentation adds complexity and texture, as well as giving cloudiness from the natural yeast sediment that remains.

Our cider is dry as this is the way we like to drink it - refreshing and full of flavour! ENJOY You have a couple of options when it comes to enjoying a bottle of Abel Methode Cider: EITHER...Place bottle upright in the fridge overnight, the colder the better. This will allow the natural sediment to settle to the bottom of the bottle. When you're ready to drink it, pour the clear cider (everything but the settled sediment) into a champagne flute or wine glass of your choice. OR...If you like cloudy cider, invert the bottle a couple of times then pour away!

A generous, medium-sweet cider.

 Local Nelson apples with a touch of residual sugar that pumps the fruit to the fore. Sweeter than a K.I.S.S.

CLASSIC - 5.0% ABV

For all you citrus & botanical fans out there. A bright refreshing style that offers everything you are looking for in real cider. KAFFIR LIME, LEMON & JUNIPER

Prepare to relax.

 5.8% ABV

Scoundrels and Rogues - Sometimes, bigger is better.  Made by the most irrepressible Scoundrels and Rogues in North Canterbury, this Pear cider was made from the contents of only a few pear trees, fermented in barrels, and then promptly forgotten about for six months.  It gives new meaning to the term rustic, as it's made in a very traditional French farmhouse style, with a strong pear character.  You may love it, you may hate it, but i'm not sure i'm too bothered either way.

This Pear cider is rustic and funky, but you'll get over it.