This year our country celebrates 250 years and Cider Mill Friends celebrates 25 years! In honor of this quarter-century anniversary, we have updated our logo and created a special anniversary logo for the milestone year. Keep your eyes out for these logos on new merchandise and the tasting glass at our annual cider tasting event in October. 

Twenty five years ago, in 2001, a development group wanted to demolish the historic building. Our group formed out of the local public who knew this landmark deserved to be saved for future generations. We have accomplished so much and will continue to do so.

This brand refresh is inspired by the feeling of the vintage images of the cider mill and the typography that was used on past Kimlin Cider labels. The anniversary logo includes a custom ‘25’ that includes a special detail in the counter of the 5; do you see it? (🍎).

The new logo and the 25th anniversary branding were designed by Claire Wajda, who is both a graphic designer and on the Cider Mill Friends Advisory Board. You can check her out online at clairewajda.com. We want to profusely thank Claire for volunteering her time and expertise to this rebranding and many other graphic works over the past several years.

We also want to recognize the designers who worked with us to design our logos over the years.

In 2012, Stephen Burgess, then a Dutchess Community College student, volunteered his time and expertise to design the logo we used for the past 14 years. His idea, which continues today, is a logo using a stylized line drawing of the cider mill.

And we also want to thank Ivars Sprogis whose watercolor painting of the cider mill was our logo for the first 11 years of our group.

Cheers to another 25 years and beyond!