{"id":70879,"date":"2014-01-08T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70879"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:14:20","slug":"downeast-cider-brockman-11-brockman-08-and-mosher-11-forbes-30-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/08\/downeast-cider-brockman-11-brockman-08-and-mosher-11-forbes-30-under-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes’ list of 30 Under 30 tabs Downeast Cider’s Brockman ’11, Mosher ’11 and Brockman ’08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Named to the Forbes<\/em> 30 Under 30 list for 2014 in the Food and Wine category are Tyler Mosher ’11 and brothers Matt ’08 and Ross Brockman ’11 of the hard-cider startup Downeast Cider.<\/p>\n

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Downeast Cider co-founders Tyler Mosher ’11 (left) and Ross Brockman ’11 offered a hard cider tasting in the Bobcat Den last spring. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Cider is having a moment, and these boys have made it their mission to build New England’s first and largest craft hard cider company,” says\u00a0Forbes.<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

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Matt Brockman ’08, chief operating officer of Downeast Cider.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ross Brockman and Mosher are co-founders of Downeast Cider while Ross’ brother, Matt, came on as a co-owner and COO in 2012.<\/p>\n

Initially based in Waterville, Maine, the ciderhouse moved operations to Leominster, Mass., in 2012 before settling in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown.<\/p>\n

The co-founders told Gary Dzen ’05, who covers craft beer for The Boston Globe<\/em>, that the move to Charlestown reflects “a lot of excitement in the craft alcoholic beverage industry right now.” Boston, they say, “is square in the thick of things.”<\/p>\n

At first only available on tap in bars and restaurants, Downeast is now canned and sold at any number of stores <\/a>or “packies” (for you Boston readers) in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.<\/p>\n