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How Tracking the Right Sales Metrics Can Refine Your Cidery’s Growth

June 11, 2025 Jon Sicotte 0

For any cidery, data is more than a back-end detail, it’s a foundation for smarter decisions in your sales. Leaning into key metrics to build lasting, scalable brands is important, and Cider Business heard from […]

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Building Stronger Cidery Teams Through Strategic Hiring and Training

June 4, 2025 Jon Sicotte 0

Hiring and onboarding your cidery’s tasting room staff is more than a quick training session on pouring technique and a rundown of the tap list. Instead, it’s a process that needs to be rooted in […]

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Ways to Formulate Market Differentiation & Consumer Engagement with a Wholesaler

March 13, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

It’s essential that the strategies employed by craft cideries and wholesaler distributors can vary based on factors such as market dynamics, regional preferences, and evolving industry trends, but when your brand does sign on to […]

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How Portland Cider Creates Buzz Points for New Cider Releases

February 21, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Portland Cider has a lot of fun playing with the spicier side of flavor over the years, and they told Brewer recently that customers aren’t shy about letting them know when something packs a little […]

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How Capitalizing on Niches Can Fit into Sales Strategy

February 14, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

The growing interest in cider has provided a fertile ground for the production and appreciation of single varietal or even experimental types of cider. Both can lead to creating a sales niche that can develop […]

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Can Internalizing Food Service Work for Your Brand?

February 7, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Internalizing food service for your cidery involves establishing and managing your own food service operations within your cidery, as opposed to relying on external vendors or food trucks. This may be able to enhance the […]

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Can Your Brand ‘Play Both Sides?’ to Success

January 31, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Creating a product with alcohol in it more recently has become difficult in some situations and cideries are looking to lean into that trend with digging into NA along with the “better for you” options. […]

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How Crush Series Was a Strategic Innovation for Citizen Cider

January 24, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Citizen Cider’s Crush series has emerged as a strategic innovation for the Burlington, Vermont company, capitalizing on the success of seasonals like its Strawberry Crush. Mimosa Crush was carefully positioned for winter and spring, and […]

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Why Stem Ciders’ Combs Wanted Be a Master Cicerone

January 17, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Patrick Combs, Director of Liquids for Stem Ciders, has joined an exclusive group of only 28 individuals throughout the program’s history to earn the honored distinction of Master Cicerone. Becoming a Master Cicerone, the highest […]

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Words of Wisdom for Up-And-Coming Owners

January 10, 2024 Jon Sicotte 0

Since opening Lost Boy Cidery, founder Tristan Wright admits that his perspective has broadened, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, customer engagement, and continuous innovation. As more cideries come online in 2024, Wright and many other […]

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