About
Sunsetter
Mill A’s flagship release, this modern West Coast-style cider is fruit-forward and effortlessly crushable. A pure expression of place made from nothing but PNW apples, Sunsetter’s balanced complexity and refreshing, dry finish keeps us coming back sip after sip.
About Skamania County
Skamania County is nestled against the west side of the Cascade Mountains along the Columbia River, and sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Yakama Nation and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The tribal communities remain committed stewards of this land, cherishing it and protecting it, as instructed by elders through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. We give thanks to the legacy of the original people, their lives, and their descendants. In Chinook, once the dominant language of the area, sk'mániak means “swift waters,” a fitting name for a land so full of streams, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls.
About Us
Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain range and surrounded by the dramatic landscapes of the Columbia River Gorge, Mill A crafts easy-drinking, sophisticated, and botanically-driven ciders built for back roads, dusty trails, and river runs. Inspired by our love of European aperitif culture and frustrated by the lack of diverse flavors in the burgeoning West Coast cider scene, we aim to explore new flavors and old traditions through the lens of our favorite fruit, the apple. We employ a host of wild and cultivated plants from across the Pacific Northwest to craft modern ciders with a distinct sense of place, while both nodding to the past and looking to the future. We hope you enjoy the journey.
Where the hell is Mill A?
“Mill A” is the name given to the community that formed around the first stop on the Broughton Timber Flume, in a bucolic sub-alpine valley in the foothills of the Cascades. The nation’s longest flume, the Braughton snaked through 9 miles of dense forests, transporting millions of board-feet of timber down to the banks of the mighty Columbia River, where it was deposited onto railcars and shipped across the country. The flume ceased operation years ago, and now Mill A is mostly smallholdings; at our family farm and pilot cidery, our neighbors in the valley include an alpaca farm, fish hatchery, small church and rural school, but no gas station or stop lights. It is here- surrounded by lava fields, waterfalls, towering basalt formations and the dry scrublands east of the mountains- that we first had a vision to craft ciders that spoke to a sense of place, to share Mill A with the world. Welcome to our Shangri-la.