New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom

New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom is a bar in Santa Fe, NM, where the taproom pours nine taps of hard cider brewed on site alongside twelve rotating taps of locally crafted beer and spirits. The cider lineup includes Rhubarb, Apricot, Sangria, Blackberry, Blood Orange, Extra Dry, Semisweet, and Green Tea, while the rotating taps draw from Sierra Blanca Brewing, Second Street Brewing, La Cumbre Brewing, Bosque Brewing, and Hidden Mountain Brewing, and the spirits list features Tumbleroot Distillery, Santa Fe Spirits, Altar, Hollow Spirits, Albuquerque Distillery, Wayward Sons, Blue Clover, and Dire Wolf. It holds a rating of 4.50 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The cidery began in 2013 when founder Craig Moya helped a friend harvest roughly three to four hundred pounds of apples and pears from a grandmother's yard in Galisteo and decided to ferment the fruit. After researching cider as an up-and-coming niche beverage, Moya restored an overgrown orchard belonging to his uncle in Villanueva, home-brewed while waiting for federal and state licensing, and obtained funding to open a taproom in downtown Santa Fe. Moya lives in Santa Fe with his wife Heather and their three children, and before cider he spent five years with the Santa Fe County Fire Department. In 2014, the business had grown large enough that he was able to work on it full time.

The taproom sits at 505 Cerrillos Rd Unit A105, about a tenth of a mile from the New Mexico State Engineer Library, and within the same short distance of the Design Center Santa Fe, the Administrative Office of the District Attorney, the Paul Bardacke Building, and the New Mexico Public Welfare Building, with Paseo de Peralta running alongside. It is a cidery built from a single weekend of fruit picking that grew into a downtown Santa Fe taproom pouring cider, local beer, and New Mexico spirits on the same bar.