Start or grow your cidery today
Services
Craft Cider Consulting offers a wide variety services to help cider businesses of
any size or stage.
Business Plans
We'll help you craft a great and realistic business plan that will help you secure funding, plan for growth, and have a firm understanding of all the needs of a successful craft cidery.
Branding and Marketing
Often overlooked, branding and marketing are as important as the quality of cider you make. Our background in marketing will help you create a brand that can draw attention in a crowded craft beverage space.
Regulatory Compliance
Compliance with TTB and FDA regulations can have an outsized role in the way you operate your business. We understand excise taxes, labeling requirements, and facility certification.
Product Development
We specialize in modern cidermaking and have the knowledge to help create market-ready craft cider products that are priced and marketed effectively to meet consumer demand.
Facility Design
From used and new equipment sourcing, finding commercial space, determining production sizes and goals, and whatever else it takes to make craft cider effectively in your facility.
Sales and Distribution
Having an effective sales strategy from the beginning is important, whether that is just in a taproom and direct to consumer, or working with a wholesaler or operating wholesale on your own, for wider distribution.
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Adam Ruhland successfully co-founded one of the midwest's largest and fastest growing craft cideries. His background in branding and marketing along with a history of successfully building great teams allows him to offer all things necessary to successfully launch and grow a thriving cider business.
Get in Touch
Reach out to learn more about the ways we can work together to meet the needs of your new or grown hard cider business.