Bold Rock Hard Cider is an exciting, rapidly-growing craft cidery founded in Virginia, but expanding to serve its growing fanbase. The Company is very well-known within Virginia where it now holds a prominent market position and it is gaining traction within adjacent markets.
Our hard cider product for which Bold Rock is renown is smooth, fruit forward and offers a clean finish—a beloved combination for a growing segment of clients electing to drink hard cider over beer.
The Company was founded in the rural hamlet of Nellysford, Virginia—deep in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains—and near other prominent Virginia beer breweries. Upon the initiative of John Washburn and his partner Brian Shanks, a dream of using fresh, local apples to form a special family of ciders made carefully each day began in June, 2012. Today, the first and very modest cider barn in Nellysford has given way to a beautifully rustic timber-frame cidery and taprooms where both long-devoted and new cider drinkers can watch cider makers crushing local apples and crafting award-winning Bold Rock Hard Cider while “Drinking in the Scenery.”
Bold Rock Locations:
Nellysford, VA
1020 Rockfish Valley Hwy, Nellysford, VA 22958
Carter Mountain, VA
1435 Carters Mountain Trail, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Mills River, NC
72 School House Rd, Mills River, NC 28759
Asheville, NC
39 N Lexington Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
Classically refined, but not styled as a traditional "sweet beer" beer alternative, Crispin ciders are crisp and clean, not sweet and sticky and never sacrifice superior quality refreshment satisfaction for overbearing complexity.
Always true to the apple, Crispin Hard Ciders are naturally fermented using fresh pressed apple-juice, never from apple juice concentrate, from a premium blend of US West Coast apples, with no added malt, grape wine or spirit alcohol. Crispin’s unique flavors are smoothed with pure apple juice or from natural sugar sources like oragnic honey or organic maple syrup, and contain no added colorants, sorbate or benzoate preservatives.
Crispin ciders have 6 different varietals - Original, Light and Brut; classic European styled crisp clean ciders and our line of Artisanla Reserves; Honey Crisp, The Saint and Lansdowne - unfiltered "cloudy" ciders, ground-breaking "craft beer" uniquely American ciders.
Crispin ciders are all Gluten Free for the wheat-intolerant person.