Andy Sietsema

145: 1 Guy & 6 Girls | Sietsema Cider, MI

Andy Sietsema comes from a long line of apple growers in the Grand Rapids area of Michigan. He is a fourth generation farmer and now a professional cidermaker at Sietsema Cider. Since launching the cidermaking operation in 2013, the family’s cider mill and orchard run by Andy’s parents in the town of Ada has closed … Read more

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022: Gregory Hall | Virtue Cider, Michigan

Getting to cider for Gregory Hall, was one part luck and a whole lotta of beer. When his father John Hall founded the Chicago based Goose Island Brewery in 1988, it took only 3 years before Greg was at the helm brewing at “Goose”. Twenty years later in 2011, the brewery would be sold to Anheuser-Busch-InBev. … Read more