Farm cidery & taproom on Harvest Moon Farm, North Salem, NY

Hardscrabble

Hard cider grown, pressed and poured on one family farm. Pints, local beer and New York cocktails, seven days a week.

Brosé Hardscrabble dry cider, topped with a floater of beet cider.

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

Theodore Roosevelt, the line three brothers took to an orchard in North Salem

Alex, Kevin and Ben Covino came home from the University of Rhode Island with horticulture degrees, a family orchard and, Mother Nature willing, apples aplenty. Hardscrabble is what they made of it: a micro farm-cidery where every step, from tree to glass, happens on the farm.

Our story

0apple varieties grown on site, all ten in every press
0acres of Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard
2015first cider pressed, bottled by hand
0days a week, 10 am to 6 pm

On tapthis week at the barrel bar

Four ciders of our own, four guest beers poured for the farm. Pull a tap to pour one.

This week’s board · it changes often

Hardscrabble Cider · Cider

Dry

Light, crisp, notes of Macintosh

6.5% abv · made on the farm

Cider in a cocktailmixed with New York spirits

Drinks & food menu

Brosé

Hardscrabble dry cider, topped with a floater of beet cider.

Orchard Bloody

Our house-made Bloody Mary mix with Spirits Lab Vodka & dry cider. Hot sauce and horseradish optional.

Cider Mimosa

Hardscrabble dry cider & orange juice with a beet cider floater. Garnished with lime.

Espresso Martini

Spirits Lab Vodka, espresso cold brew, maple liqueur.

’Scrabble Mule

Spirits Lab Vodka, ginger beer, lime juice. Garnished with a lime.

Tree to glassevery step on one farm

Growing, picking, cleaning, pressing, fermenting, bottling. Nothing leaves the farm until it’s in a bottle, and most of it never leaves at all.

01 · Grow

01
Grow
Ten apple varieties grow on the hillside at Harvest Moon, the family's orchard since 2011. The brothers planted thousands of apple whips to make room for more.
02
Pick & clean
Every apple is picked by hand on the farm, then washed and sorted right here before it goes anywhere near the press.
03
Press & ferment
The juice is pressed from a blend of all ten varieties. Fermentation is monitored closely, tank by tank.
04
Filter & bottle
Filtered several times for the cleanest, freshest taste, then hand-bottled, capped and batch-pasteurised for stability.
05
Pour
No distributor, no warehouse: from the cidery on the farm to the taproom bar on the same farm, and into your glass.

Fridays · 5 – 9 pm · May to mid-September

Cider
Nights

The way summer weekends start in North Salem: a local band on the patio, pizza out of the wood-fired oven, Hardscrabble on tap and the orchard going gold behind the picnic tables.