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The Cider House is run by the family Eitungjerde Høyvik; Eli-Grete and Åge, and next generation Tuba and Gard. You’ll find it in Balestrand in Sogn, a small walk from the pier and Kviknes Hotel. The whitewashed house is surrounded by three thousand fruit trees.
The Cider House is a part of the international network Economusée, and in the cellar we make cider by "methode-tradisjonelle" and distill different types of fruit brandy.
www.ciderhuset.no
In addition to beverage production, the Cider House is a spacious feast venue. We accept groups all year around for lunch or dinner. We offer program with interpretation on cider and fruit or cultural walks in the art village Balestrand. We facilitate professional arrangements, team building and other fun! In the summer you can visit the restaurant in the glasshouse that displays a vide view of the Sognefjord. Here the food is made with local and partly organic ingredients and with the Mediterranean cuisine as inspiration. The Cider House is well suited for weddings and celebrations of other important days.
Of the many fruit trees two thirds of apples is divided on 80 different varieties, among them bitter cider apples from Normandie and Somerset. The rest is plum, pear and cherry – and some apricot and grape. The climate in Sogn makes the fruit ripe slower than at southern latitudes. It gives more acid and concentrated taste also when the fruit is ennobled.
Åge has been fascinated by fruit from he was little, and he likes to collect different varieties, graft and plant. His grandfather Andreas was a tradesman and fruit grower and made fruit wine. He taught Åge how to treat the apple as careful as eggs – and wrap them in silk so that they would stay good. Next generation has also grown up with helping in the orchard: pruning, picking, sorting – and last but not least revel in fruit. The youngest generation also shows fruit enthusiasm – little Edda (that also is the name of a plum variety!) loves to hang out with grandfather Åge in the orchard and taste the fruit. She learned early on to say both “Balholm” and “Plum” and “Apple”.
Åge has been fascinated by fruit from he was little, and he likes to collect different varieties, graft and plant. His grandfather Andreas was a tradesman and fruit grower and made fruit wine. He taught Åge how to treat the apple as careful as eggs – and wrap them in silk so that they would stay good. Next generation has also grown up with helping in the orchard: pruning, picking, sorting – and last but not least revel in fruit. The youngest generation also shows fruit enthusiasm – little Edda (that also is the name of a plum variety!) loves to hang out with grandfather Åge in the orchard and taste the fruit. She learned early on to say both “Balholm” and “Plum” and “Apple”.
