Zeffer - It's hard to beat a classic crisp apple cider.  This was the first cider we crafted and like all good originals, it's stayed true to form.  A bit like a Ford Cortina or timeless white shirt, our Crisp Apple is straight up and enduring.  It's dry, tangy, green apple goodness and carefully crafted by our cidermaking team each session.

5.0% ABV.

Haweke's Bay Brewing Co. - Using an old fashioned ginger beer recipe we cold infuse mandarine flavours to create a crisp, spicy refreshing beer that you can enjoy anytime.

5.0% ABV.

The 'Poiré', or Pear Cider, is a fresh cider with refined taste, produced from three varieties of pears that come from multi centennial orchards. 

All of Pere Jules products are made from apple and pear varieties that are carefully selected from traditional orchards of tall trees in a protected area of controlled production (AOC). 

It is excellent to drink with any sea food.

A nice refreshing Brut. A beautiful blend of bright colours. Fine, light bubbles and aromas of biscuit, bread and hints of flowers and nuts. A smart, dry, clean palate with ripe apple, pear and fresh autumn fruits. With a well balanced, crisp acidity and a smooth cream mousse. Lasting tarty acidity on the long and delicious, tangy finish.

5% ABV

Elaborated with sweet and tart apples, this Brut cider with a light and fresh taste will brighten your grilled meats, salads and other summer dishes.

5.0% ABV.

"A wonderful reminder of what true cider is about"

A selection of wild fermented blends from the cellar, dominated by late bittersweet cider apples. A complex cider with distinct farmhouse notes that conjure up oak tables, earthenware jugs and thatched roofs.

Apples: Yarlington Mill, Major, 21C, Tom Putt, Kingston Black, Harry Master's Jersey

Yeasts: Wild yeasts

Aged: 8 months in oak and steel

Residual Sugar: 23g/l

5.5% ABV

This medium version of our Kingston Black single variety cider retains some residual sweetness. Slowly fermented over winter and beautifully expresses the spice and vanilla notes that Kingston Black creates in our Southern Hemisphere environment.

Apples: Kingston Black
Yeasts: Wild yeasts
Aged: 12 months in stainless and French oak
Medium Dry: approx 20g/l residual sweetness
Serve: Cellar temp. (10–13ºC)

6.9% ABV.

If you're looking for the most summery drink possible, you've just found it.

This is an explosion of tropical deliciousness, a taste sensation like no other.  When you are drinking this, you are transported to white sand and a beach bar.

Notes of pineapple, guadeloupe melon, banana, apricot and peach.  Seriously juicy and heading on for medium in style, it's got a cheeky zippy finish keeping it perfectly balanced.

Made by co-fermenting our fat and super ripe quinces with Harry Masters' Jersey apples from the 2023 harvest, there is nothing else like this.

Alcohol: 5.2% abv

Fruit: Quince and Harry Masters' Jersey Apples

Style: Off dry/medium

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.