Ironbound Hard Cider

History

Ironbound Hard Cider produces high-quality, affordable ciders aimed at restoring Newark's legacy as the home of America's finest hard cider. New Jersey has a long history of cider making, especially in Newark where cider was the city's first industry and a source of civic pride and community wealth. Our goal is to help revitalize Greater Newark by providing well-paying, meaningful jobs for the city's chronically underemployed residents--including ex-offenders and other underserved members of the community. Those jobs include the cultivation of cider apples at Ironbound Farm in Hunterdon County, where our Newark-based crew has planted thousands of heritage Newark cider apple trees. Thanks to a new law that permits cider making in urban centers, we are working to move some of our cider making and our apple nursery into Newark. This will allow us to create many more jobs and to return the legendary Harrison apple to its rightful and historic home.

Specialties

We make cider that is gluten free, preservative free, and has no added sugar, no sulfites, and zero concentrate. Ironbound comes from 100% fresh-pressed local apples and is a modern twist on the Old World cider that once made George Washington call Newark cider,