Tucked just outside of Gettysburg, Good Intent Cider is the hobby of Adam Redding, an otherwise scientist, whose weeklong cider class has forged into a full, family run business...

Redding’s family runs Good Intent Cider located at 167 South Potter Street. The cidery’s drinks can take the edge off for adults, but the atmosphere inside the business welcomes all ages. The business is open only on weekends...

We recently spoke to Adam Redding, owner of Good Intent Cider, a family-owned and -operated cidery located in the heart of Pennsylvania apple country (Gettysburg!), to find out how one becomes a hard-cider maker, what makes a cider a cider, and the grassroots efforts at getting their product to their customers...

Good Intent Cider got even better because this weekend they opened their tasting room at 167 South Potter Street in Bellefonte, Pa...

There's beer and there's wine. And then there's hard cider. But as two local hard cider makers will tell you: It's just as unique and complex as your favorite wines and craft beers...

Adam Redding’s eye is peeled while driving the many miles he logs each week between his cidery in Bellefonte, storage facility in Adams County, home in State College, and his “day job” as a scientist for a water technology company near Pittsburgh. He’s on the lookout for apples, especially from abandoned trees along old country roads where some heirloom varieties may still be fruiting and ripening long after the folks who planted the tree moved away. He travels with a fruit-picking bag that he straps on when he finds an old apple or crabapple tree and collects as many as he can reach. It takes a lot of apples to make cider — about 50 for a gallon — and the wider the variety the more complex his finished product will be.

Brief overview of the “pour tour” of Adams County breweries and wineries, including mention of Good Intent Cider and our work with Recruit Gettysburg to produce Rose Farm Orchard.