Hogan’s Cider Mill

Nice local place with great cider!!! People who run it are sweet and kind. Great addition to our town.

Hogan’s has been an annual family tradition for years. I used to go with my grandpa and cousins every year. I went back for the first time in years when I came home for a visit. Still as amazing as I remembered. You must get at least a half gallon of apple cider! I also got two fabulous smelling candles that I’m bringing back to NYC to remind me of home! This place has a great atmosphere! A great fall destination!

Lots of hard cider to choose from and they vary throughout the season. The honey & ginger ones are my favorites. The apple cider is very delicious and made with a few varieties of apples.

What a wonderful CT treasure.
This mill has been open since 1912 and has been making unique ciders without added preservatives for that long (besides the Prohibition era, I suppose). Come here to try and buy their ciders! If you’re a ginger lover, you have to try their ginger cider. Other hits included the honey, black currant, and Christmas frost.
Seeing how the cider is made is really neat, including the press itself plus the huge, stainless steel vats that hold the cider as it ferments. Big props to Theresa for a wonderful tour and being all around super sweet and awesome.
The mill also has a pretty comprehensive store, which included some antique Singer sewing machines, bird houses, jewelry, and Christmas ornaments.
There’s also a driving range in the back — kind of random but could be seen as an added perk.
Be sure to pet Haley! She’s a timid but sweet pup.

Jamie and I were lucky enough to have been introduced to Hogan’s Cider Mill during a Unilocal Elite Connecticut Classics event this fall. During our drive, we kept thinking «how much further?», but once we arrived, we realized that the beautiful countryside drive was part of the experience.
The event began with a brief but informative tour of the actual cider pressing and fermentation rooms. It was truly like stepping back in time– a more simple and genuine time! The man and woman behind the operation spoke to us about their craft, and not just «their job». I talked at length with the owner of Hogan’s Cider Mill on my experiences making hard cider at home, and she offered up some really great advice and thoughts on future batches. After the tour ended, we went upstairs into the loft for a cider tasting.
Their current ciders included (from sweeter to more dry):
–Mulling Spices
–Native Honey
–Frosted Peach
–Strawberry
–December Frost
–Classic
–Two Gingers
–Black Currant
–Cranberry
I prefer dry ciders, so I started with the «Classic», then moved on to Black Currant; I threw in a sampling of the Frosted Peach, and finished with the Two Gingers. All of these ciders were quite good (and I say that with my hefty share of experience tasting hard cider), and Jamie and I struggled with which bottles to buy. We ended up purchasing a bottle of Two Gingers (my overall favorite) and Native Honey (of which Jamie had shared a sip with me), plus a half gallon of regular cider. The beautiful thing about Hogan’s hard cider is that all of the flavoring is subtle, but appreciated. You can definitely taste the honey (or the ginger), but it doesn’t linger on the palate. The regular apple cider is mellow and smooth, not overwhelmingly sweet like apple juice from concentrate.
They do accept credit card, but cash is preferable, if you have it.
Aside from the tasting and the tour, Hogan’s is also home to some antiques/​collectibles, local crafts, fresh produce, and homemade goods like pies, canned foods, lavender and spice satchels, and more. Everything is reasonably priced (Christmas ornaments from 99 cents!). To me, it’s nice to have a little extra to look at while you’re sampling glass after delicious glass. [Just as a note, they do not have apple picking, as all of the apples they press are brought in from local orchards.]
Best of all, the tour and tastings were not just free because we were with the Unilocal elite crew, they’re free for everyone. That includes you.
«You get a free tasting! and YOU get a free tasting! and YOU get a free tasting! And I’m going to give everyone a free tour!» –Oprah

We love Hogan’s! I have been getting cider there ever since I was a kid. Now, we take our kids there, too! The fresh apple cider is the best I have ever had, no question. They also have hard cider, which is great, and other things like honey, apples, pumpkins, etc. The family who owns it is always very nice, too.

cider donuts $ 1
buy 5
do it
that is all…

My father would always take me here as a kid. I love walking through the old barn in the crisp autumn air. The cider and hard cider are equally delicious.
If you live in the area you really ought to check it out.

Hogan’s Cider Mill is one of Torrington’s little gems. The cider is by far the best cider offered in the state that I’ve ever had and believe me I’ve tasted A LOT of ciders. The cider mill offers a selection of hard apple wines and ciders as well which are pretty good. Prices are pretty standard. They bring in some baked goods from different sources. These can be pretty decent but it’s the cider that makes this mill special.
Everyone is friendly when I go there. Offering tastings of all the ciders. Service is top notch. They really give me the impression that they value each and every customer. I will always be a customer of Hogan’s.
Thanks for the good cider!

I will be reviewing this based on the mini golf experience, rather than its cider shop.
So we are in the middle of our mini golf masters and this was our second course. We went around back and went into what looked like a barn converted into a merchandise store. The older gentlemen ran down the rules and by his tone, he was pretty serious about us not damaging his course.
So we take our putters (mind you, they were real putters, not mini-​golf putters) and go outside. There was not much shade so we were tanning our butts off. There were no real obstacles that capture the essence of mini-​golfing. The course was very well kept but it is much more suited for an aspiring professional working on his or her putting game than a birthday group or a couple looking for a fun time.
All in all, go to Hogan’s Cider Mill for the cider shop and the driving range, as those seem to be the bread and butter of their business. The mini-​golf course is more like a training course for professionals and therefore I would not recommend it for the casual mini-​golfer.

Stopped for cider back in the fall and have been thinking about it ever since. Small little shop full of crafty bits and doodads. Cider samplings include hard varieties as well as your general Autumnal cold crisp sips. Wasn’t aware there was an upstairs, so I’ll be checking out the flea-​markety finds next time we stop in.

Delicious ciders and interesting conversation. That’s what you will find when you check out Hogan’s for a cider tasting.
We were ever grateful patrons on Wednesday night when the owner and her daughter stayed open a little late for the Unilocal local roots event. Tastings occur daily and are free. You will find traditional dry ciders as well as some limited edition trials.
The limited edition frosted peach cider was delightful. It had NOT your typical overly sweet obnoxious peach flavor but rather a subtle peach note enhancing the complexities of the apples. Black currant was by far our favorite and is available for purchase online or at the farm tomorrow. Ultimately we left with two bottles of peach and one of the honey. We also took home a half a peck of the most delicious cortland apples.
Do yourself a favor and go out and get some Hogan’s cider, take it to a nice park in the Litchfield Hills and enjoy the beautiful autumn weather and scenery!

This historic Cider Mill offers free tasting of their ciders. Yes, free.
I like the Ice cider the best, but I also like the traditional recipe. They have about 6 different kinds, and they vary according to the month and season. It is a great place to take out-​of-​town visitors, as they will enjoy the original building, established in 1912 (I think – somewhere around there). The original mill has Connecticut’s oldest telephone booth inside! Yup, pretty cool. I was also drooling over the antique typewriters and sewing machines that they have for sale.
This place also has this amazing bottle of raw honey (it has honeycomb floating on the top it’s so raw) for $ 19.95 for a huge bottle of it. Great for a gift or for yourself, if you put honey in your tea. I think I may have grabbed the last bottle this week, so you can blame me if you don’t find it on the shelf.

This is one of those places you won’t forget because of how unique it is. Located right out on Route 4 on the Burlington/​Harwinton line, this is a combination farm stand/​country store/​cider mill/​golf learning center. That’s right, there’s a well known golf learning center located out back, complete with a PGA teaching professional and driving range. The hard cider is awesome, as are the fresh apples and home baked pies. A great destination for a lazy fall afternoon drive.

Awesome place to stop by and check out.
They have some pretty cool stuff including its own driving range for golfers.
They make a variety of hard cider which makes for a great gift or for your own enjoyment. They have candy, honey and also all kinds of jar fresh interesting products. Habanero infused garlic, jams, pickles and my favorite «ghost pepper salsa»!
Great corn and tomatoes too.
Check it out, it’s well worth the stop or drive

Really sweet gem of a place off the beaten path. Little bit of a farmers market, winery, and flea market rolled into one. The first floor is like a produce store– we saw fresh corn and tomatoes out on display along with quite a bit of jarred foods like chow chow, corn relish, honey, and vegetables. The back of the first floor transitions into household artsy crafty things like decorations and ornaments.
But as you climb the stairs to the second floor, your eyes will bug out at the tidal waves of cool stuff everywhere. Old calendars, old furniture, old sewing machines, old signs, old 45 records, old typewriters. It’s a pickers dream.
The lady behind the counter was friendly and cool to talk to. A great stop if you’re in the area

I love Hogan’s. Tucked away in northwest Connecticut, this little place screams New England and is worth the scenic drive up. My boyfriend is from the area, and when we first started dating, this was one of the places he always wanted to take me to when I would visit. Today, it’s still a destination for us, and visiting is just as exciting as it was then.
We go to Hogan’s mainly for the cider. Before we turned 21, we went for the regular apple cider, which is fresh and notches above what you can get at the grocery store. After our 21^st birthdays, this became a stop for hard cider. Hogan’s makes a variety of hard ciders, and they’re all delicious — and strong. The standouts for me are the honey cider and any of the ice ciders. The cranberry and mulled are also very good. All of the ciders are available for a free tasting while you’re there, and the staff is extremely knowledgable about each one. On our most recent visit, we tried some of the «December Ice,» which was a cider made out of the apples from this past December. We were told that apples usually can’t be pressed after they freeze because they get mushy, but for some reason, the freeze this past December worked out so that the insides of the apple were left intact, and they made for an interesting and unique cider — very cool stuff!
On top of the cider, Hogan’s has its own specialty foods, candies, and neat gifts. The store is basically a giant barn, filled with interesting trinkets. There are things to look at upstairs, too, with antiques and a room full of Christmas things.

I love their cider, it is SO good.
Not to mention their awesome crafts, and other fun stuff. We went here before Halloween and it was fantastic. Can’t wait to get more cider to help warm up this winter (:

seasonal apple oriented farm stand. if you like hard cider (non sparkling with 10% alcohol) this place is pretty great. when we were here they had 4 flavors; plain, mulled, cranberry and strawberry and they were expanding the line (so i have to go back and get more before they close)
check the website or call to make sure they are open though — i think they close for the winter some time around christmas. they also had some pretty nice christmas trees and crafts and antiques upstairs in the barn.

The hard cider here is delicious! I went a while ago so I can’t remember each type… but they have a few different varieties. They also do free tastings!
Also– staff is SO FRIENDLY and they have some great antiques and other fun little gifts in the store too! Highly recommend!