HAND CRAFTED
“ NEW AMERICAN CIDERS”

WHO WE ARE

JEFF CO CIDER – WE ARE A PREMIUM CRAFT CIDER PRODUCER. WE ARE COMMITTED TO CREATING UNIQUE “NEW AMERICAN CIDERS” WITH DEPTH OF FLAVOR AND “NEVER DULL”

We are committed to redefining traditional hard cider, playing with interesting flavor combinations, fermentation and aging techniques in hopes to highlight the apples and all the wonderful way we ferment them.

We are a true Midwestern Ma and Pa organization supported by passionate people we work and drink with.

The company was founded in December 2013 when owners Jesse Narducci and Katie Greenfield moved back to the Heartland from California to bring craft cider to their home state.

The family farm now hosts over 700 young heirloom apple trees with varietals from all over the world. Jefferson County Ciderwork’s production facility and Tap Room are located just west of the family farm in a newly renovated old horse barn.

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MEET THE CIDERS

Dry Hopped

Bright, crisp, citrus, semi-dry, and herbaceous. A cider that beer drinker’s can get behind. This is a dry, flavorful cider. Fermented with our house blend of yeast, this cider is aged on raw French oak for two weeks, while soaking in all the floral, herbal flavors from our blend of citrusy hops. To finish this cider, we back-sweeten with apple juice to round out the flavors and create that well-rounded dry taste.

Oaked Sour Cherry

Boasting flavors of oak, stone fruit, whiskey, vanilla, tart cherry and crisp apple, this is a wine-like, semi-dry, big flavored cider. It is refreshing and rewarding to your tongue, drinks like a sour fruit beer or sparkling rosé. It is crisp, tart and smooth. We add lots Michigan Montmorency cherry juice on the backend of fermentation and age this cider on a toasted French oak, leaving behind a flavor that will linger from sip to sip.

Hibiscus Rose

This cider is aged with loads of whole organic hibiscus petals, whole roses. Only oaked fir 3 days for minimal oak flavor in this cider. Its semi-dry. Hibiscus Rose is one of our driest. A wine like taste bursting with floral and earthy tannins.

Dry Pineapple

More please! Full of fruit flavors, bright pineapple sets the pace with a fresh apple taste right behind. Our Dry Pineapple cider is aged on French oak, which adds a buttery flavor that rounds out the pineapple.

Original Heritage Apple Cider

We have to highlight and give homage the apple in its simplest form. This is a semi-sweet cider aged on toasted French oak. Brite and refreshing, this cider is easy to drink and deeply satisfying.

Lemon Lavender (seasonal)

Our lemon lavender hard cider tastes like a Midwest summer sunset. This is a simple apple cider with subtle herbal and citrus notes. We age this cider with the highest quality French lavender from Provence, France and top it off with lemon and apple juice to round out the acidity of the citrus.

Backroad Apple Pie (seasonal)

A nostalgic slice of Grandma’s pie in your glass… or if you’re from a Rural community, a sip of the ol’ moonshine- go on, we won’t tell. Tart, tangy, and slightly sweet. This cider is aged with whole vanilla beans, cinnamon and other spices. This blend is our longest aged cider to bring out deep aromatic spices and the flavor finishes out with a bright green apple. It is a semi-sweet cider and way too easy to drink – watch out!

Cranberry Orange (seasonal)

We created this blend of cranberry, aronia berry and orange cider to raise a glass with family and friends at the holiday table. It is a super juicy and jammy, semi sweet and full flavored, all things holiday cider.

Uncle Spruce (seasonal)

Our heritage holiday blend, aged on oak for months with spruce tips, spices and vanilla. This cider is pure holiday on the nose and tastes like winter.

*** Cellar Series * Baby Brett Barrel Aged ***

Our experimental, wild ferments and one-off cider projects are always in the works. We’re alway pushing the bar, and the idea of what cider is and what cider can be. From wild ferments, multiple yeast strains, aging techniques, flavors, spices and fruits. The Cellar Series Ciders are only available at our tap room and very select tap accounts. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for updates and availability.

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Food Plot –‘Good Eats’

Come dine with us!

Our very own mobile food trailer offering ‘New American Bar Food’, Midwest traditional eats mixed with unique twists collected from our background and travels. Innovative and mouthwatering specials are served daily.

We work with the best ingredients we can, working with Midwest growers and purveyors as well as our own chef’s garden.

Our daily specials and menu updates can be found on our Facebook. Our state of the art food trailer is 100% mobile and off the grid if need be, so talk with us about catering events or festivals!

Tap Room

Come drink with us!

Open seasonally our Tap Room pours our JeffCo Cider, Craft Beer, NA Beverages… and all around good times.

The Tap Room hosts around 40 seats inside and an infinite number on our country lawn – dotted with picnic tables, filled with happy children and parents alike. A true Midwestern community experience.

Originally coined ‘Sunset Station’ by the founders, the Tap Room hosts the best views of the setting sun inSoutheast Iowa.

The Tap Room is available for corporate and private events. Contact info@jeffcocider.com for more information.

MEET THE MAKERS

Cider maker – Jesse Narducci has been brewing beer and hard cider for friends and family for well over a decade. Started it all as a classically trained Chef, Jesse attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago before moving to San Francisco to pursue his passion for cooking. After years of working in the kitchen with access to some of the best produce and purveyors of finest ingredients in the country – his passion for balancing and blending flavors led him out of the kitchen and behind the bar. This was when “craft cocktails” were blossoming in San Francisco. Honing in his skills and palate, he created cocktails with the best ingredients the Bay Area had to offer. While living in Los Angeles, Jesse transitioned to a professional food photography career, and would brew beer and hard cider with his spare time. He would drive all over California to collect juice from the orchards each year for his annual hard cider concoctions.

Katie Greenfield – Has a background in consulting. Katie saw a big need for backend organization and finance management for creative companies. Crafting her business and clients so she could always be part of the arts, working with companies in film, food, music, and fashion, Katie has stabilized, organized and helped grow businesses in Los Angeles, Oregon, and New York. Never truly leaving the heartland, each year Jesse would return to the Midwest, developing the family farm in Iowa. Each Earth Day Jesse would return to plant new orchard plot of heirloom apple trees, which led to the foundation for JeffCo Cider.

LOCATION

1839 200th Street. Fairfield, IA, 52556

Just west of Fairfield, first left off Brookville rd.

200th st. is the first gravel road.

Red Barn White Roof.

HAND CRAFTED“ NEW AMERICAN CIDERS”