Cidery Apprentice

Do you love cider? We are a small orchard based cidery looking to hire an apprentice. A great opportunity to learn about craft beverages, orcharding, and making cider.

This job will be a little bit of everything, as we are a small team. Lots of retail sales and service, think tasting flights and chatting to folks about cider. You’ll also get to learn about cider production and help us with bottling, cleaning tanks and other production tasks. Some days you’ll be working in the orchard, in the fall you’ll help pressing apples.

Our orchard is not certified organic, but we use only organic sprays and regenerative practices. We grow over 56 varieties of apples and pears and make dry, complex ciders.

If you’re interested, please send a cover letter. Let us know why you’d like to work here. A good attitude and willingness to learn is number one. Experience is a bonus but not required.

Job involves:

Retail sales and service

Production jobs like bottling, labeling and general cidery tasks

Cleaning production area

Tasting and analysis of products

Assist with events and farmers’ markets

Ability to work outdoors

Orchard work such as mowing and pruning

Must be physically capable to lift 40-50lbs

Ladder work

Pruning, picking apples

Pressing fruit

Ideal candidate may have:

Experience in hospitality

Experience in beverage production (beer, cider, wine or spirits)

Comfortable working both independently and on a team

Effective interpersonal and electronic communication skills

Horticultural and/or farming knowledge

Curious about cider styles, flavours and apples