Hard Apple Cider

Award-winning, modern American ciders crafted from whole, natural ingredients in the heart of the Midwest.

Meet Our Ciders

Apples, pears, berries, botanicals, spices, honey.

You won’t see anything artificial in our ciders. Just good, clean, ingredients highlighting the flavors of the Midwest.

Meet the People Behind the Cider

We’re a small, family-run cidery based in Waverly, Iowa. We strive to use local apples when possible, and we have our own young orchard. We raise chickens, garden, canoe, hike, listen to frogs, watch birds, and think all of that goes pretty well with a cider in hand.

Find Paha Cider

Find us at a store, restaurant, bar, or an event near you! And if you’re in the area, we’ll soon be offering pickup at the cidery. Click the button to see where you can find our cider.

Follow our cidermaking journey and get the latest updates on Instagram

View fullsize 📢 Introducing our fall seasonal: Long Lane Cider! ( A.k.a. Mo’s new favorite cider, which is saying a lot 😉) 🍏 This is a dry, unfiltered, English-style cider that is a blend of old and new worlds. It features the Brown Snout, an old English
View fullsize 🤩 We have something VERY exciting up our sleeves. We worked with the wonderful folks @cedarridgeiowa to distill some of our cider into apple brandy. We blended it with unfermented apple juice and tucked it into a barrel to rest and mature. Then voil
View fullsize 👋Hi! Today we’re back with part 2 of reintroducing ourselves. This is Mo–sales and marketing director. ✔️She likes to keep things organized. Mo worked in marketing and communications most of her career. She’s done everything from
View fullsize 🍎The juice is loose! If you’ve been following along, you know that we’ve been busy picking a few thousand pounds (!!) of Iowa apples this fall. We don’t have our own large apple press yet, but we are really lucky to have access to
View fullsize 🎃 Happy Halloween! May your evening be full of your favorite treats, especially tasty cider 🥂 🍫 📷 Photo cred @northliberty #halloween #happyhalloween #costume #cider #pahacider #cider #cidery #iowa #iowacider #pickcider
View fullsize 👋Hi! We have a lot of new followers around here and thought this would be a good time to reintroduce ourselves. This is Mark–owner and head cidermaker. 🧠He’s the brains behind it all. He’s worked as a biologist, an electrician