Pennings Farm Cidery now open on Warwick Turnpike

WARWICK — Pennings Farm Cidery celebrated the official opening of Warwick’s newest hard cider company on Saturday, June 4.
Pennings Farm Cidery was born of the multi-generational Pennings family of farmers, who established both Pennings Apple Orchard and Pennings Farm Market in Warwick. With great interest in maintaining a sustainable existence for the farm, siblings Tori and Steve Pennings Jr. (SJ), the children of Pennings Farm Market owners Steve and Jill Pennings, are following in the footsteps of their parents, establishing Pennings Farm Cidery.
Teaming up to take the family farm into the next generation of farming, Tori and SJ see an on-site cidery as an opportunity to showcase the fruits already grown on the farm and for the farm to be a viable existence for themselves, their parents and future generations. They share in the vision of other American apple-growers in rediscovering one of the country’s original libations and the opportunity to produce cider from start to finish, handcrafted from apples grown on-site.
Until the addition of the cidery, apples were picked at their family’s orchard, owned and operated by Jack Pennings Sr. along with his son Jack Jr. and his wife Monica. The apples were pressed off-site, delivered to the Warwick Winery, a local vineyard and winery, to ferment and then finally returned to Pennings and sold at their pub.
The custom built, 12-tap system is offering a lineup of Pennings' own crisp and creative hard ciders, including Bone Dry, Honey Hopped and Ginger Beet available in pints, flights and growlers-to-go, along with a rotating selection of New York-made craft brews produced with Pennings homegrown hops by local breweries including Butternuts Brewing and Pine Island Brewing.

Visit the cidery

Pennings Farm Cidery is located at 4 Warwick Turnpike, directly behind Pennings Farm Market, nestled against the hillside apple and peach orchards in a newly constructed barn. It seats up to 70 patrons indoors and offers outside covered patio seating, as well as nearly an acre of lawn seating surrounded by Pennings Orchard, with a vast view of the Warwick Valley. The locally hand-built bar is constructed of reclaimed maple slabs and apple bins, and the dining tables feature live-edge maple tops.
For more information, go to www.penningscidery.com or by call (845) 987-9922.