Many Ålandic food artisans produce fine beverages. Everything from freshly pressed apple juice and lemonades to cider, beer, and noble alcoholic spirits.
Öfvergårds orchard presses its juice from first-class apples. Only one apple cultivar is used for each juice. This enhances the characteristic colour, flavour and character of the raw pressed juice. All different varieties of juice can be sampled in the farm shop’s juice bar. To describe and characterise the taste, the apple grower Öfvergårds has also had the help of Vinsmedjan’s sommelier Ella Grüssner Cromwell-Morgan. She describes Zonga juice as ”a white-yellow apple juice with great fruity sweetness and balanced acidity.”
First class apple juice is also available by the orchards Karl-Ers Frukt, Snäckö Frukt and Grannas Äppel. Snäckö, Grannas and Öfvergårds run farm shops. In addition, Öfvergårds offers both apple safaris and picnics in the orchard.
Peders Aplagård on Kökar refines the orchard’s produce into non-alcoholic lemonades and soft drinks. Also visit Amalia’s Limonadfabrik in Lemland, which produces lemonade flavoured with raspberries, blueberries and black currants, among others. Aplagården and Amalias also have summer cafés and farm shops.
Prestigious craft beverages
Åland breweries and distilleries produce many noble beverages of different tastes, from crafted beers and ciders to strong alcohol beverages. There are two artisanal breweries, Open Water Brewery and Stallhagen. Åland Distillery produces local gin, long drink and other unique spirits. The Distillery’s Drop-in Tour & Tasting is held on Saturdays in July at 15.00.
