We’ve got plastic skulls, glue guns, puffy paint, jewels, beads, glitter paint, and Dead amazing deals on cider for class participants. $20/person includes all materials and you’ll take home two completed skulls! You can purchase tickets HERE.

With Live Music by Bill Immekus!
As a long-time activist and Alcona County resident, Trina understands the challenges and problems facing people in the 106th Michigan House District. Unlike Cam, Trina believes in facts, and I am not beholden to big-money interests. I will bring concrete ideas, people skills, and a tireless work ethic to move things forward for everyone. Check out her ideas on her website.

Doors for the costume contest and drag show open at 6:30. This is a $26 ticketed event that can be purchased online HERE. You may purchase tickets at the door, but the shows sell out fast. Please note, we will only refund a ticket if we have AT LEAST 24 HOURS NOTICE. Otherwise, people miss out on a seat that could have been resold. Thanks for your understanding.
Prizes both Friday and Saturday for the best costume (as judged by our Queens)!!! You’ll get your ticket to the show refunded/paid for and a PIF Cider t-shirt of your choice. The drag show will begin at 7pm (which is actually 7:30-8pm Queen time)!

Come share and listen to poetry, written word, and stories. All draft cider $1/off for performers. The Poetics Lab website

Doors for the costume contest and drag show open at 6:30. This is a $26 ticketed event that can be purchased online HERE. You may purchase tickets at the door, but the shows sell out fast. Please note, we will only refund a ticket if we have AT LEAST 24 HOURS NOTICE. Otherwise, people miss out on a seat that could have been resold. Thanks for your understanding.
Prizes both Friday and Saturday for the best costume (as judged by our Queens)!!! You’ll get your ticket to the show refunded/paid for and a PIF Cider t-shirt of your choice. The drag show will begin at 7pm (which is actually 7:30-8pm Queen time)!

All you have to do to join the club is come on down to the taproom, bring whatever you're currently reading (there is no assigned reading!), grab your favorite drink from the bar, and then join us for an hour of silent reading. There will be time to socialize before and after the hour, but if that's not your jam, no worries, it's totally optional! Specials on baklava and cheesecake for participants.

Schedule:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Get your drinks and snacks, grab a seat, socialize with other readers, share what you're reading
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Silent Reading Hour
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Optional socializing (or keep reading!)

All who join are responsible for purchasing their own drinks and snacks. We will have an area reserved for us.

Please invite your friends to come read with us! Follow our page to always stay up to date on when the next meet-up is happening.

Learn more about Silent Book Club on their website: www.silentbookclub.com

Come join the Gary as he spins vinyl for the eve. Bring your records to share!!!! Cider tastes better with groovy music.

To wassail is to: drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.

We opened just about 2 years ago on this day. Come hear music and dance a jig, drink cider from years of pressing, wear something appley for special discounts, and drink cider until your heart is content! Live music all day beginning at 1pm.

$4 half pints & $6 pints all day.

CLUB MEMBERS will receive:
40% OFF bottles

GENERAL PUBLIC will receive:
25% OFF bottles and cans

DOORS OPEN AT 12PM
Food: Bangarang Tacos

LIVE MUSIC:
1-3pm: Conor Larkin
4-6pm: Jeff & Sue, Cult of 2 (Ethereal Purr)
7-10pm: Birch Road Band

Write-in Brian Perry for Alpena County Commissioners, District 4
Come see what this guy can do for you.

We’re opening later on M-Th. We’ll now be open at 4pm, instead of 2pm. Thank you for your continued support of small local business.

You like his jazz? Come check out this musical master’s set. He’ll play bass, guitar, sing, and mix some sick beats. Chill house, experimental, ambient, drum and bass. $5 suggested donation.
Fat Freddie’s food truck will be serving up in our back lot for the evening, too!

Stop by PIF to meet me, Stephanie Woytaszek. I am running as a write-in candidate for county commisioner for district 1. I would love to share my thoughts and ideas, and answer any questions you might have.

Write-in Renee Fisher for Alpena County School Board
(248) 330-4506
reneefisher2024@gmail.com
”For 11 years I have been in the classroom teaching. I have experience in parochial, charter, Montessori, and public education settings. After becoming disenfranchised with the system, I walked away with a heavy heart. I love being in the classroom but what I love more is students learning. My drive to improve the quality of the education system is strong. I am dedicated to students learning and improving the system that is currently in place.”

Any talent can be showcased!

All you have to do to join the club is come on down to the taproom, bring whatever you're currently reading (there is no assigned reading!), grab your favorite drink from the bar, and then join us for an hour of silent reading. There will be time to socialize before and after the hour, but if that's not your jam, no worries, it's totally optional! Specials on baklava and cheesecake for participants.

Schedule:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Get your drinks and snacks, grab a seat, socialize with other readers, share what you're reading
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Silent Reading Hour
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Optional socializing (or keep reading!)

All who join are responsible for purchasing their own drinks and snacks. We will have an area reserved for us.

Please invite your friends to come read with us! Follow our page to always stay up to date on when the next meet-up is happening.

Learn more about Silent Book Club on their website: www.silentbookclub.com

Mark your calendars! Our next cider club is Tuesday, 9/24, 6-8pm. $20 for non-members, but if you join Cider Club, we deduct that from your cost. This is a private, ticketed event.

Come get down with Birch Road String Band. 7-9pm

Come listen to Bill Immekus play tunes, bring your donation duckets, sip cider, and gab with Callie Barr about what you want from your next Michigan Congressional Representative!

Come for this free event hosted by Alpena County Library and the Poetics Lab. Nandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. She is the co-director of Detroit Lit. She will be reading from her work during the event.

Ahoy, Mateys!
Chart yer course to PIF Cider, where ye can sticker up yer game board like a true buccaneer! We’ll be servin’ up mini-slushies for just 3 doubloons and tasty bites of cake bites to fill yer bellies.
Come join the crew, or walk the plank! We be waitin’ to see ye there, savvy?

Yo-ho-ho and a cider full o’ fun!

You like his jazz? Come check out this musical master’s set. He’ll play bass, guitar, sing, and mix some sick beats. Chill house, experimental, ambient, drum and bass.

Conor Larkin is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from northern Michigan. Conor also plays with WinaSchnitzel and Bobbing for Piranhas.

Mark your calendars! Our next cider club is Tuesday, 8/27, 6-8pm. $20 for non-members, but if you join Cider Club, we deduct that from your cost. This is a private, ticketed event.

Any talent can be showcased!

Come see the progress of our Fresh Waves mural going up by Britt Flood on the EAST side of our building (right next to Dr. Beatty’s dentist office on 3rd Ave.) We’ll have slushies for $2/off, drafts $1/off, and all bottles 15% off! Live music with Charles Madison’s Dr. West! And KC Sizzle & Smoke food truck will be ready at 5pm!
”Artist Britt Flood previously painted as part of the 2020 Fresh Waves project at Thunder Bay Theatre; unfortunately, the mural was destroyed in the warehouse fire in December 2023. We are thrilled to have her back in late August to paint a new piece on the side of PIF Cider. The artist’s work provides “moments of discovery, connection, and positivity to our communities through public art and placemaking.” Her piece will embody “the spirit of the lake,” mixing muted and vibrant colors that are inspired by the textures, colors, and sunsets of Alpena that the artist experienced while here in 2020.”

Come join the Gary as he spins vinyl for the eve. Bring your records to share!!!! Cider tastes better with groovy music.

The Bodice Rippers Association - or BRA - is an inclusive romance book club that meets monthly at PIF Cider! Every month we will choose a romance trope as the focus of our next discussion. Readers can read any book that fits the trope - closed door or open! - then attend the meet-up to share their recent read(s) and hear about what other members have been loving! Readers are asked to bring a favorite or recently read romance book to share. We'll get to know each other and learn more about the book club, romance as a genre, romancelandia lingo, and tropes! Please reach out to book club hosts, Sara and Paige, at bodicerippersassociation@gmail.com with questions.

We won’t be able to make every Saturday, but we’ll have it in our calendar when we plan on attending. You’ll see (based on availability) tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, basil, lettuce mix, microgreens, kale, carrots, and more!

Come check out these cool jazz cats & have some cider with a tasty pastry or Blue Moon Cafe sandwich/bowl.