Land & Community
Three of Finnriver’s land and/or community partners.
possible answers…
■ What is the Olympic Peninsula Prairies?
■ What is the Chimacum Valley Grainery?
■ What is the Root of Resilience Project?
■ What is the Organic Seed Alliance?
■ What is the North Olympic Salmon Coalition?
■ What is the Lunaseed Farms?
■ What is the Fogwitch Floriculture?
■ What is the Jefferson Land Trust?
■ What are the Friends of the Trees Botanicals?
■ What is the Goosefoot Community Farm?
■ What is the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden?
■ What is the Woven Thresholds Willow Patch?
■ What is the Jefferson County Anti-Racist Fund?
■ What is the Chimacum Workhorse Project?
Apples specifically used for cider are typically classified into four main types based on their specific qualities.
What are Bittersweet, Bittersharp, Sweet, and Sharp?
The Orchard Series Ciders are crafted primarily from this orchard’s apples.
What is Finnriver Farm?
Debuting Finnriver’s contribution to the Pacific NW hard cider revival, this is the year Finnriver sold their first hard cider.
When is 2010?
The method used to propagate apples and pears
What is Grafting?
This community partner works to preserve several thousands of acres of farmland within the county Finnriver resides.
What is the Jefferson Land Trust?
Quimper’s cider production uses this traditional European process where fermentation occurs very slowly under nutrient starved conditions to achieve a specific flavor profile and a stable end of fermentation that leaves residual sugars naturally present.
What is Keeving?
Unlike its commonly compared counterpart, this cider is not back sweetened by juice and is not fermented with apples.
What is Perry?
The Native American people that lived on the NE portion of the Olympic Peninsula,
whose Anglicized namesake is featured through a few of our ciders
possible answers are…
■ Who are The Chimakum?
■ Who are The Chemakum?
■ Who are The Chimacum?
■ Who are The Aqokúlo? (Ah-Coo-Cool-Low)
Pears belong to this genus.
What is Pyrus?
Distributing 100% of the food they grow to their community for free, this community partner aims to combat food insecurity through accessible organic produce.
What is the Goosefoot Community Farm?
These are the five seasonal botanical ciders and their seasons that Finnriver produces.
■ What is Lavender Black Currant and Summer?
■ What is Forest Ginger and early Fall?
■ What is Cranberry Rosehip and late Fall?
■ What is Solstice Saffron and Winter?
■ What is Honey Meadow and Spring?
Fermented with a traditional Sauvignon Blanc yeast strain and Finnriver’s own native yeast, this cider shares a name with a common root veggie.
What is Golden Russet?
In the year ____, The Jefferson Land Trust made an agreement to place a conservation easement on Finnriver’s original home farm, to ensure preservation of 33-acres of land.
When is 2009?
This year this cider re-label art is done by a Port Townsend-based artist, Velda Thomas. Partial proceeds go to Black-led projects such as Black Banjo Reclamation Project and many others that are working for transformative justice.
What is the Social Justice Cider or Black Current?
In conjunction with the North Olympic Salmon Coalition, this partner aids in the maintenance of a nursery on Finnriver’s land that promotes the propagation and sharing of many native plant species through conservation and annual plant sales.
What is the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden?
Yeast is integral to the cider making process, aiding the conversion of sugar to yield
these two primary byproducts.
What are Alcohol and Carbon Dioxide?
The Black Oak Orchard Series cider is crafted with ______ ______, organically grown in Agnew, Washington. Then aged for nine months in American _____ barrels.
What are Black currants & Oak?
The first two ciders sold by Finnriver.
What is Artisan and Farmstead?
Ann Jessop, otherwise known as…
Who is Annie Appleseed?
Reducing the distance between land and loaf and bottle, they offer a range of products including organically grown, fresh-milled flours, pastas, baked goods and beer.
What is the Chimacum Valley Grainery?
Finnriver’s Artisan cider is produced using this traditional French method of bottle
fermenting, riddling, and disgorging. This process is time and labor intensive.
What is Méthode Champenoise or the Champagne Method?
Aged from December to May, this cider is barrel-aged and made with apples with high tannins and polyphenols. It’s 8.5% abv and notes of leather lends itself to be the perfect pairing for savory meat selections.
What is Fire Barrel?
'Sally,' real name Klatsutse, married settler William Bishop by Native custom and homesteaded the land where the Cidery is now located. Her son was the first Native American state senator and the small building by the Farmhouse was "Senator Bishop's office." Belonging to this tribal affiliation, descendants of Sally Bishop still live within the community
What is Snohomish?
Five out of six of Finnriver's Core Values.
possible answers must include at least five of the following:
■ What is Service?
■ What is Creativity?
■ What is Collaboration?
■ What is Beauty?
■ What is Integrity?
■ What is Emergence?