Expand your practice and your palette in the new year by joining the Western Cider bartenders in a Saturday morning class before the cider house opens. Western Cider's staff is chock full of yoga instructors, and since we love Yoga & Cider, we thought we'd pair them up. Sophia, Kaya, Ashley and Ellie will be taking turns leading class each week. Yoga classes will vary depending on the teacher, but you can expect an all-levels class that warms you up, building both flexibility and strength. All bodies welcome! $10 GETS YOU A CLASS AND A CIDER AFTERWARDS

The ZACC is partnering with Western Cider and Missoula’s favorite annual racy, retro, sci-fi musical, the Rocky Horror Show LIVE at the Wilma, to present Rocky Horror Drink & Draw LIVE at Western Cider. Cast members will model in character for lucky attendees to sketch, with a new session every 30 minutes. Costumes strongly encouraged and Rocky Horror fans of all ages and skill levels are welcome. Our volunteers will be on hand for figure drawing instruction. They are also fabulous dancers if you don’t want to do the Time Warp all by yourself. All art supplies will be free and supplied by the ZACC. The show is generously donating tickets for us to raffle, and the ZACC receives a portion of the profit from cider sales during the event.

At Roxy Theater.

A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.

Heartland's 40th Anniversary screening will be presented in 35mm.

Executive producer Annick Smith, director Richard Pearce, Writer/Co-Producer Beth Ferris, writer William Kittridge, and actor Megan Folsom in attendance. Q&A will follow screening.

Sponsored by Western Cider.

Join us on the opening night of the 5th Annual Montana Film Festival, following the Montana premiere of Mickey and the Bear, for the MTFF Welcome Recital. Hosted at Missoula’s prize ciderhouse Western Cider, enjoy a meal from a local food truck, live music from dear friends and weirdos Writ Large, Lee Rizzo, and June West, and the best cider you’ve ever tasted.

Music 8-10pm so don't be too fashionably late! :)

Celebrate Montana Cider Week with a led cheese & cider pairing. Head Cheese Maker Allison Dembek of Tucker Family Farm will guide you through a tasting at Western Cider of four artisanal cheeses matched with four of our hand picked ciders. Our neighbor down the Bitterroot, Tucker Family Farm, crafts cave-aged cheeses from the sheep's milk of their own grassfed livestock. Their farmstead in Victor is just a stone's throw from the Billingsley Cider Orchard in Stevensville, where we grow heirloom apples to make the ciders enjoyed in our Tasting Room. $25

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cheese-cider-tasting-no-2-tickets-74724433793

Celebrate Montana Cider Week with a led cheese & cider pairing. Head Cheese Maker Allison Dembek of Tucker Family Farm will guide you through a tasting at Western Cider of four artisanal cheeses matched with four of our hand picked ciders. Our neighbor down the Bitterroot, Tucker Family Farm, crafts cave-aged cheeses from the sheep's milk of their own grassfed livestock. Their farmstead in Victor is just a stone's throw from the Billingsley Cider Orchard in Stevensville, where we grow heirloom apples to make the ciders enjoyed in our Tasting Room. $25

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cheese-cider-tasting-tickets-73197903901?aff=ebapi

Michael Billingsley, the Poor Farmer himself, will be guiding this Montana Cider Week tasting of 6 different McIntosh ciders sourced from the valleys of Western Montanan. The Montana McIntosh apple is known in the cider industry for its unique flavor and its sweet, bright juice. We will be tasting the apples from five orchards spanning across the Bitterroot and up to the Flathead [Swason's, Moss, Moore, Schallenberger, & Browns]. Guests will also be offered the first sips of our Imperial McIntosh, a spiritous and fruity barrel-aged blend of cryoconcentrated McIntosh. Tickets available at the link. Limited spots available. $25

Tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mcintosh-cider-tasting-tickets-73186186855?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1CB5Qs8mMb9t90LJE7g4vaODA9cX5ASFXrLpM1Kpja8pZ1gjONmceqFrw

To kickoff Montana Cider Week, we are taking our apple pressing to the next level with a competition to see who's the best on a press. Teams of two will be judged on the time it takes to mill, press, and juice apples. Winners walk away with a Western Cider Dream package. Bring your friends and make some wagers. Must be 21+ to enter. Signup by 3PM on September 28th.

Donuts and hot cider for kids and adults.

Made possible by the generous help of Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD) - who will be on site with a restored 19th century cider press from the Higgins property.

Join us for an evening of cider pressing, live music, homemade pie, and a community feast at the Moon-Randolph Homestead.

We'll be serving up some hillside fare catered by Burns St. Bistro complete with pulled pork and sauces, potato salad, coleslaw, cornbread. And who can forget the delicious cider provided by our favorite folks over at Western Cider.

Tunes will be ringing through the hillsides from Izaak Opatz and Wailin' Aaron Jennings.

Pre-sale tickets are $13 and regular tickets will be $15 (so be sure to get your tickets early (purchase link to come).

If you're looking to get involved and want to volunteer, please sign up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4daeaa2ca3fa7-2019

Join us in the cider garden for a family-style barbecue with Western Cider and James Beard-Nominated Chef Jeremy Engebretson of Lilac Restaurant. Chef Jeremy will be roasting the WHOLE HOG from Lower Crossing Farm in St. Ignatius in Western Cider's backyard, and serving it with a mix of classic barbecued meats and sides. This remarkable dinner will be served alongside three ciders and dessert to top it off. Tickets are $60 and won't last long. Purchase tickets at the Eventbrite link, below, or in Western Cider's tasting room. Menu to be posted, soon.

Find Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/western-cider-13929010295

The ZACC, Farm Hand Farm, and Western Cider team up to present a stunning, floral still-life Drink & Draw. Urban flower farmer Adelaide Every will bring seasonal arrangements for attendees to sketch or watercolor. Arrangements will be available for purchase at the end of the evening. If you love what you see, you can sign-up for her 2020 Seasonal Flower CSA! Our volunteers will be on hand for art instruction. All art supplies will be free and supplied by the ZACC. The ZACC receives a portion of the profit from cider sales during the event, and donations are always appreciated.

Farm Hand Farm is a small urban farm on Missoula's Westside formed in 2017 by Adelaide Gale Every. FHF specializes in seasonal cut flowers and foliage (including a flower CSA), heirloom produce and herbs, as well as botanically based skin care products, created with farm grown ingredients like calendula and comfrey, all while focusing on creating a permaculture habitat and growing with organic practices. Farm Hand Farm also offers seasonal flower wreaths, seeds, transplants, workshops, and floral design work.

Join a tour of the Western Cider cellar for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of our small-batch cidery. We'll share the history of our cidery and orchard, a bit about how we create our booze, and all kinds of trivia in between. Along the tour, you'll be invited to wet your whistle with a tasting of two seasonally selected ciders.

$5 for the Tour & Tasting. Sign up in the Tasting Room or get on the list by emailing ellie@westerncider.com

SUMMER DAZE is a summer party and river float in cahoots with Love Boat Paddle Co. It starts with an 11AM river float with Love Boat providing a FREE shuttle from Western Cider to the Sha-Ron river access in East Missoula. Float down to the cider house in time for tunes around 5PM by The Skurfs, Sung Mountain, and Writ. Bring the good vibrations!

The ZACC, Muse Comics, and Western Cider team up to bring you Drink & Draw Dungeons & Dragons -- a.k.a. D&D D&D! We’ll have three D&D related art projects for attendees to create: Drawing your Character, Fantasy Cartography, and Dungeon Creation. Our volunteers will be on hand for art instruction, and for D&D related questions and conversation (they play). All art supplies will be free and supplied by the ZACC. We’ll also have D&D books and other materials available for reference. Muse Comics will provide a sweet D&D related item for raffle. The ZACC receives a portion of the profit from cider sales during the event, and donations are always appreciated.

Veteran musicians Carla (bass, guitar), Eric (rhythm and lead guitar) and Marlene (guitar, bass) form this harmonious trio that makes you wonder where all that percussion is coming from without a drummer. We just might get you tapping your feet or swing-dancing with a partner. It’s been known to happen. Basses Covered has been blazing their way through Missoula, from festivals to tap rooms to markets to back yards.

Emily Emmons brings the sweet songs and good vibes to our orchard patio. Come grab an after-work drink!

This summer, kick up the old time dust at Summer Squares, a summertime square dance series, hosted by Western Cider and the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Dance away a late summer evening at these traditional and easygoing community square dances. Each dance will feature a caller and live old time music by The Woodhogs. Callers will teach you everything you need to know—no experience necessary. Beginners and young folk welcome all night. Dances are FREE and open to the public.

Thursday, June 20 at Western Cider

Thursday, July 11 at Western Cider

Thursday, August 8 at Moon-Randolph Homestead

6 pm FOOD
7 pm MUSIC
8-10 pm DANCE

Cider provided by Western Cider at the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Please, do not bring outside alcohol. Thanks!

Join Western Cider, Clark Fork Coalition, and River City Brews Rafting Tours for an evening of floating and cleaning up the river we love. Afterward, we’ll meet up at Western Cider to celebrate clean water and eat food from Madeleine's.

Here are the details:
Meet at Sha-Ron river access in East Missoula at 4PM. Cleanup the beach before floating the Clark Fork. Bring your own watercraft or contact Love Boat Paddle Co. or The Trail Head to arrange a rental.

We will supply latex gloves, bags, and point you in the right direction. If you'd like to bring your own gloves, please, do!

River City Brews Rafting Tours will run shuttle back to Sha Ron in their van (maybe a couple of runs depending on people)

The coordinates for the Sha-Ron access are:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/46%C2%B052'53.7%22N+113%C2%B056'06.2%22W/@46.8815784,-113.9358544,209m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d46.8815775!4d-113.9350444

If you have questions, contact: volunteer@clarkfork.org

This event is in conjunction with Western Cider's Grateful Glass - our way of contributing to the stewards of our community that we are dedicated to help succeed. Here’s how it works: CFC will receive $1 from every glass sold on every TUESDAY of August. At the end of the month we cut them a check. Simple as that!

Join Public Land Owners for an axe-throwing pint night at Western Cider!
Featuring a tournament-style contest ($5 to enter), some great raffle prizes, and the best cider in town, there'll be something for everyone! Western Cider is donating $1 per pour back to BHA, so show up thirsty! Have some fun, toss some axes, and do it all to benefit our wild public lands, waters and wildlife!

Groovy tunes by the Betsy Olson Band and JUNIOR the band in the apple grove around 6PM.

Gypsy jazz tunes by Night Blooming Jasmine at 6PM among the apple trees.

Western Cider and Red Ants Pants are teaming up with Statriot Designs to bring you a summer evening of tunes in our riverside cider garden. Lana Rebel and June West will be singing their sweet songs and giving away day passes to the Red Ants Pants Music Festival to a hand full of lucky winners. Food by Two Crows Tacos. Come out and hang!

Missoula's legendary honky tonk crooner, Russ Nasset, graces our stage at 6PM.

Western Cider, Zootown Arts Community Center, and the ISCSM (Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana) are teaming up to bring you Drag Drink & Draw - a fabulous all-ages event! Members of the ISCSM will be modeling in full drag for lucky attendees to sketch, with a colorful variety of art materials provided for free by the ZACC. ZACC staff and volunteers will be on-hand to assist with drawing techniques. Imperial Sovereign Court Models in attendance will be: Emperor 24 Aidden Bedding, Empress 24 Diana Bourgeois, Outreach Coordinator Sophia Stone Valhallan, and Sasha Fersha.

This event is free and open to everyone. A portion of the night's cider sales will be donated to the ZACC. Don't miss this awesome opportunity to learn, create, and support the ZACC and the ISCSM.

This summer, kick up the old time dust at Summer Squares, a summertime square dance series, hosted by Western Cider and the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Dance away a late summer evening at these traditional and easygoing community square dances. Each dance will feature a caller and live old time music by The Woodhogs. Callers will teach you everything you need to know—no experience necessary. Beginners and young folk welcome all night. Dances are FREE and open to the public.

Thursday, June 20 at Western Cider

Thursday, July 11 at Western Cider

Thursday, August 8 at Moon-Randolph Homestead

6 pm FOOD
7 pm MUSIC
8-10 pm DANCE

Cider provided by Western Cider at the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Please, do not bring outside alcohol. Thanks!

Western Cider is proud to showcase Daphne Sweet's latest work for the month of July. Daphne Sweet is a multi-media artist from Southern California based in Missoula, Montana. She specializes in painting and ceramic mediums. Her design aesthetic mimics organized chaos found in the Rococo, Baroque, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, and pattern design.

Follow Daphne on Instagram @dgaphne

Grab your instrument and head over to Western Cider for the monthly Old Time Cider Jam. Come for the cider, stay for the old time tunes.

Join Hellgate Hunters and Anglers at Western Cider for a casual Elk Calling Demo! The Chapin brothers, Austin and Ryan of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, will demonstrate effective elk calling techniques that include using mouth (diaphragm call) and open reeds, and several varieties of cow calls. “Antler Raking” and “Hoof Action” will be part of the show as well. They’ll also discuss effective use of partner calling, ambush set-up, and camouflaging techniques. Bring a friend, bring your kid or spouse and join in on the fun! Free diaphragm calls for anyone wanting to participate! As a bonus, $1 from every glass of cider will support Hellgate Hunters and Anglers Montana Bully Pulpit mission.

This summer, kick up the old time dust at Summer Squares, a summertime square dance series, hosted by Western Cider and the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Dance away a late summer evening at these traditional and easygoing community square dances. Each dance will feature a caller and live old time music by The Woodhogs. Callers will teach you everything you need to know—no experience necessary. Beginners and young folk welcome all night. Dances are FREE and open to the public.

Thursday, June 20 at Western Cider

Thursday, July 11 at Western Cider

Thursday, August 8 at Moon-Randolph Homestead

6 pm FOOD
7 pm MUSIC
8-10 pm DANCE

Cider provided by Western Cider at the Moon-Randolph Homestead. Please, do not bring outside alcohol. Thanks!

Come draw your dream home with Missoula Architecture + Design and the ZACC at Western Cider on June 19th!

Local architecture collective, Missoula Architecture + Design (MA+D), will be leading an architectural drawing workshop where participants are invited to imagine and draw their dream home. MA+D will provide a quick demonstration with tips and techniques for producing plan, elevation, and perspective drawings.
All ages and skill levels are welcome and encouraged to participate. Art supplies freely provided by the Zootown Arts Community Center and MA+D. Design, draw, and drink cider to support art in Missoula.
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Missoula Architecture + Design is a group of architects and designers promoting excellent local design by connecting architects, designers, local industry and the general public.