Luck: Barrel Aged Cider
with Tart Cherry
Jak: Dry Norther Spy Cider
Single Varietal
Hornswoggle: Cider with Hops
Boondoggle: Cider with Blood Orange
Whipper Snapper: Cider with Cinnamon,
Ginger, and Pear
Ballyhoo: Cider with Raspberry
and Key Lime
In the 1850’s our the Schaefer family homesteaded the ancestral farm in Conklin Michigan. The Schaefer Orchard has passed down six generations of apple growers. A hundred years after its founding, our family built a cold storage facility to keep the apples for extended time. It is in this building that we make PUX cider. In recent years Pux Cider has expanded that original small plot to a highly cultivated 300 acres of high-density plantings for traditional, artisanal hard ciders.
In 2012 the Schaefer family began planting heirloom and cider apples on the homesteaded family orchard. At this same time, we started to create small batches of cider. As the cider started to flow, so did our experience with and enthusiasm for these old cultivars. Currently, Pux Ciders benefit from close to 125 of our apple cultivars. These range from American dessert apples to French and English cider apples. We use these apples to create each unique batch of Pux crafted ciders. We also use other local Michigan products in our ciders, like tart cherries, pears and hops.
Northern Spy apples are a very late season, large and stout apple with carmine red skin married with streaks of yellow and pale green. Its tender-crisp esh is creamy yellow and juicy. It imparts a bit of a tartness in its bite, but more of a cider-quality avor with hints of pear and sweetness. All …
Address
1051 Harding St
Conklin, MI 49403
Phone
616.899.2298
