Cider Tasting 2025

SAT., OCTOBER 4, 2025
11 AM – 3PM

This marks our 13th annual “Old Fashioned Cider Tasting” event at the Mill!  All proceeds benefit the restoration of the Kimlin Cider Mill.

Purchase tickets at this link or at the door (more information below).

Click here to help sponsor the event or donate cider or raffles items.

Planned Events

  • Cider tasting of our Kimlin Cider (available at this event only) plus other local sweet & hard ciders
  • Commemorative tasting glass with full cider tasting ticket
  • Behind-the-scene Mill tours
  • Children’s activities – meadow maze, crafts by Crazy Over ART, and scavenger hunt
  • Demonstration of cider pressing with an antique press & antique corn sheller
  • Raffle baskets
  • Goats from Clover Brooke Farm
  • Live music from the Roundabout Ramblers
  • Food truck by From the Ground Up
  • Apple fritters (a historic Dutch treat) by the Fishkill Historical Society (not present if raining)
  • FreeCycle table of items available for free (not present if raining)
  • Rain or shine!  Under a large tent.

Tickets

  • Free entry
  • $15 – hard & sweet ciders, with commemorative tasting glass
  • $5 – sweet ciders only
  • $0 – sweet cider for ages 12 and under
  • Tasting tickets are available at the door, but if you purchase online (link here), you will be entered into an exclusive raffle of a jug of Kimlin Cider!  Our small-batch cider is made especially for this event only and is not sold or otherwise available except for tasting.
  • Lunch, apple fritters, and merchandise available for purchase at the event

Cider Donors

Sponsors

Cider Table Donors ($500):

Honeycrisp Apples ($350):

Northern Spy Apples ($175):

  • Ron Hicks
  • Herbert H. Redl Family Foundation
  • Maurice Love & Andrew Levine

Rome Apples ($100):

  • Marion & Peter Van Ness
  • Eve & Bruce Gendron
  • Roy Budnik
  • Rohit Shahani
  • Stephen & Linda Saland
  • Mark F. Piggott
  • Robert Balkind
  • PVEDi

Supporters ($50):

Raffle Donors:

Thank you to our partners!