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Cider for a Change
Hey beer drinkers! Hey wine drinkers! We get it. We like drinking beer and wine too, because they are both amazing beverages. Unfortunately, you might think you’re not a cider drinker, because like...
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How to Plant a Tree
It’s Earth Day! Get yourself outside and plant a tree. It’s really not that hard. With any luck you can enjoy watching it grow, and if it’s a fruit tree, hopefully it will give you loads of fruit over...
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Stop the CHC Transmission Line Today!
Do you want giant ugly towers strung together across the Driftless like a poorly conceived tattoo on the landscape that we’ll have to look at for the rest of our lives? Do you want the towers to linger...
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The Greatest Cider on Earth!
Part of our love for cider is rooted in the interesting stories of apples, and we’re willing to go to great lengths to get the most interesting apples we can. We pick wild apples and we find near...
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A Rare Taste of Midwestern History
Facts, folklore, and mythology often get blurred in the telling of hard cider’s history in America. The often repeated myth is that cider was America’s drink of choice until Prohibition when fervent...
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Calories in Dry Cider, Hard Seltzer, and Light Beer
Per ounce of alcohol, dry cider has about the same amount of calories as hard seltzer or light beer. The hard seltzer companies would like to fool you into thinking you’re getting a calorie free...
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Why You Should Drink Cider on Thanksgiving
If Thanksgiving is a holiday for thinking about food and American history, then the beverage that everyone should be pairing with their Thanksgiving dinner is cider. For the first couple hundred...
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Carrying on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy through Food and Drink
Bergere Stevenson is not your ordinary farmer. He’s also not your ordinary chef or craft beverage maker. For one, he towers over most people such that the first thing you see when you look at him is...
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Brix Cider is Hiring!
Position: Farm to Table Culinary SpecialistSchedule: 16-40 hours per week including weekends Pay: With shared tips, pay averages $16/hour Join an awesome crew at Brix Cider! We serve locally grown,...
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Community Food Delivery
For locations within 10 miles of Mount Horeb. Minimum order of $30. We’ve updated our online marketplace. Click the link below to start shopping. Shop our Online Marketplace Why “Community Food...
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When will Brix Cider Open?
Above: Dan packing boxes for our Community Food Delivery program We get asked this question all the time: “When do you plan to open up Brix Cider again?” It is a very difficult question to answer....
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Reopening with Some Changes
Above: April finally erasing the “St Patty’s Special” from the specials board - a reminder of how long we’ve been closed You may not have noticed as we quietly reopened this past weekend. We didn’t...
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Everyone Deserves Good Food
These are hard times for a lot of folks, especially those who may have lost their jobs or had their hours cut when they may have already been struggling to make ends meet. As a sustainable food...
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A Wisconsin COVID Solution: Ice Shanties
Above: Marie and the kids in the doorway of one of our “deluxe” ice shanties at Brix Few reasonable people want to sit inside a bar or restaurant in Wisconsin right now, sharing air space with others,...
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Winners and Losers in the Stimulus Package for Restaurants
It appears that we are going to survive COVID as a restaurant. We’re happy for that. Our accountant recently helped us clean up our books from 2020, and when all was said and done, we basically broke...
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Zero Emissions Cider!
This past fall, we had the idea that we wanted to create a “Zero Emissions Cider” wherein our efforts to make the cider wouldn’t add any CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. That is much easier said than...
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Putting the Farm Back in "Farm-to-Table"
As anyone who’s eaten at Brix knows, a quick glance at the chalkboard menu is like a tour of Wisconsin farms and food businesses. Most menu items display labels like Meadowlark Organics (Ridgeway, WI),...
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Brix Does Birdathon
Above: Awesome Brix Cider Biking Bird Brigade image by Beth Raboin, available in sticker form at Brix Springtime in the Driftless is a bodacious time for birds and in effect, bird watchers. Maybe you...
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A Thank You and Field Report From the Brix Biking Bird Brigade
As a previous blog post detailed, Brix participated in this year’s Wisconsin Natural Resource Foundations Great Wisconsin Birdathon. Early on June 1st, our crew set out to see how many species of birds...
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How to Farm-to-Table
A few months ago I wrote a guest blog post asking the question “How much local food does Brix actually buy?” (Answer: it’s impressive.) In that post I acknowledged the effort Brix puts into...
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