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● Fridays 3-7 PM ● Saturdays 1-6 PM ● Sundays 1-5 PM ●
● 2547 Williams Street, San Leandro, CA, 94577 ● 510-969-5138 ●
Our production space and tasting room is located on the Oakland/San Leandro border, near Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline.
Our tasting room is a vibrant artistic space where you can gather with friends or enjoy the quiet of the bay breeze.
Everyone is welcome at Blindwood. The only discrimination allowed is what we pour into your glass.
While we do have small snacks available, please feel free to bring your own food or order delivery.
At this time, with the exception of service dogs, pets are not permitted inside the tasting room but may be on leash outside of our doors. Supervised children are authorized. Drinking and driving is discouraged.
We offer our cider in bottles to go, please take some with you to enjoy at your leisure or place an order to be shipped to most states.
Questions about events, private parties, keg rentals or general merriment? Email us here.
OUR STORY
Backyard dreams to brick and mortar reality.
OUR STORY
Backyard dreams to brick and mortar reality.
Why Blindwood
"Blind wood" refers to a section of a branch where no buds or leaves exist. It's common to many varieties and in old, long-abandoned fruit trees. For farmers and cultivators, this is an undesirable quality; it requires the branch be cut back to renew life and turn it into a fruitful and productive one. This takes time and patience to achieve.
For us here at Blindwood; cider is about renewing life. Often times the unproductive parts of life must be pruned to ensure that the healthy parts can flourish. To the eye of the patient horticulturalist, it means nothing but potential in the years to come. We believe that sometimes, the long way is the best way and we hope that you can taste the difference in our ciders; patiently and proudly crafted.
Our cidery had its humble beginnings in our cramped garage in Hayward, CA.
Blindwood originated with a desire to create interesting and thought provoking ciders using a wide array of apple varieties, botanicals and aging processes.
We hope to show you the diversity of what patiently crafted cider can be.
OUR CIDER
Staples, seasonals and specialty hand pressed.
OUR CIDER
Staples, seasonals and specialty hand pressed.
STAPLES
The core four that started it all. Available year round.
SEASONALS
Available until they’re not.
HAND PRESSED SPECIALTIES
Our passion for the fruit in liquid form. Single varietals and blends, locally sourced and patiently crafted.
Blends
UME 8%
A co-ferment of Mutsu apples and Santa Rosa plums
HEIRLOOM 9.1%
Newtown Pippin, Winter Banana, Mutsu, Jonathan, Hudson Golden Gem, Crabs
PANACEA 7.9%
Newtown Pippin, Ribston Pippin,Roxbury Russet and Ashmead’s Kernal
TRANSCONTINENTAL POMOLOGY 8.5%
Wickson crabs and Newtown Pippin
OPTION PARALYSIS 8.4%
30 different varieties from Sonoma, Mariposa and Alameda counties
QUARTER TURN 8.4%
Harry Masters Jersey, Yarlington Mill, Golden Russet, and locally foraged apples
NEHOU NORMAL 8%
Nehou, Jonathan, Gravenstein and Crabs
Single Varietals
NEWTOWN PIPPIN 7.8%
JONATHAN 7.9%
FAMILY TREE (Gravenstein) 8.3%
KINGSTON BLACK 7.9%
RHODE ISLAND GREENING 8%
ARKANSAS BLACK 9%
WINESAP 10%
GOLDEN RUSSET 10%
HARRISON 8%
ORDER OF THE ORCHARD
BLINDWOOD CIDER’S EXCLUSIVE INCLUSIVE BOTTLE CLUB
ORDER OF THE ORCHARD
BLINDWOOD CIDER’S EXCLUSIVE INCLUSIVE BOTTLE CLUB
THE ORDER AWAITS
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Answer the call. Should you choose to accept ordination with The Order of the Orchard, you must complete the new member information listed below.
As a member of The Order of the Orchard, you will receive the following
Omnium-gatherum
Member ID
Quarterly newsletter + virtue & vices postcard
Limited edition “cup of life”
Seals of the society
Bottle opener keychain
Champagne style bottle stopper
*Additional cost option “cloak of supreme knowledge”
10% off your tab and to-go bottles in the tasting room
Complementary tasting during pick-up
4 shipments/pick-ups per year of 3-4 bottles
Early release access to seasonal and specialty hand-pressed ciders
Primary access to events
SHOP
Stop by our online store to order cider for pick-up, local delivery or via UPS.
SHOP
Stop by our online store to order cider for pick-up, local delivery or via UPS.
We’ve got cider, we’ve got swag.
WE ARE FAMILY
WE ARE FAMILY
DREW GABEL
Founder & Cider Maker
EMAIL DREW
After many years as a paramedic, Drew’s love for apples began after working on a local farm and orchard in Santa Cruz, CA. He was inspired by the near 80 varieties of apples and the diversity of plants growing on the farm. Drew cultivated his passion for cider under world-renowned cider maker Peter Mitchell, and attended intensive craft cider workshops at Oregon and Washington State. His biggest passion is to honor the apple from branch to glass while bringing unique and exciting flavors to the field of craft cider.
CATHY GABEL
Sales ● Tasting Room ● ACCOUNTING
EMAIL CATHY
Cathy has over10 years experience in sales, customer service and bar management. She brings positivity, passion and tenacity to our family business. She has committed herself to spreading joy through quenching the thirst of Bay Area residents with her husbands refreshing approach to cider and hospitality as the face of our tasting room.
ERIN GABEL
Operations Manager ● Media ● Marketing ● Events
EMAIL ERIN
Erin, is Drew's jaded older sister. So naturally, her role within Blindwood is to make sure everything is perfect, organized and micromanaged. Prior to her time with Blindwood she worked in the field of Behavior Analysis for over 15 years. She brings with her a passion for family, the Bay Area, and a data driven approach to all things cider. After being gluten free for almost 10 years; she found the market lacking in dry, drinkable cider and is proud to support her brother's endeavors to give cider a new name, one palate at a time.
Also, Erin loves flowers (& Tupac). She side hustles under the alias Ashes to Asters.
We are small Batch. We are Local. We are Family owned & Operated.
FIND US
On draft and in bottle around California’s Bay Area
FIND US
On draft and in bottle around California’s Bay Area
California’s BAY AREA
currently pouring on draft and available in bottles
ROTATING TAPS
subject to availability, ask for us at the following locations:
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