Seek-No-Further Cidery, the barn-based cider house tucked one block off Broadway in downtown Granville, is about to start pouring coffee before it pours cider. Co-owners Trent Beers and Garrett Huber are turning their long-dormant morning hours into a new cafe concept, with plans to open around 7 a.m. daily once the buildout wraps up in mid-to-late September.
The idea grew out of simple math: the cidery's taproom sat empty for roughly six hours a day, according to WhatNow Columbus, which first reported the new cafe plans. Under the existing schedule, the taproom didn't open until 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 2 p.m. on Fridays, and noon on weekends, per Seek-No-Further Cidery's own posted hours. Beers and Huber said the cafe idea grew from wanting to actually use that space during the day, according to WhatNow Columbus.
Seek-No-Further publicly confirmed the launch on social media Tuesday, aiming for a mid-September 2026 opening and that same 7 a.m. start time, as 614NOW reported. The new venture, to be called Seek-No-Further Cidery and Cafe, will operate as a permanent extension of the existing brand rather than a separate concept, and the owners say they don't plan to add anything beyond the coffee-focused expansion, per WhatNow Columbus.
A Cincinnati Coffee Partner and a Reworked Barn Layout
To pull off the morning pivot, Seek-No-Further partnered with Deeper Roots Coffee, a specialty roaster based in Cincinnati. Huber has already completed training courses with Deeper Roots in Cincinnati to prepare for the new menu, the outlet's reporting notes. Deeper Roots was founded in 2011 as a sourcing and wholesale roasting operation before expanding into its own retail cafes around the city, including one near the historic Findlay Market, according to its Findlay Market profile.
The cafe menu is expected to include matcha, teas, specialty iced drinks, baked goods and hot cider, kept separate from the existing cidery menu. Salads, hummus and feta bread are also expected additions, per the same account. To make room for morning crowds, the business is reconfiguring the downstairs area to improve ordering flow and customer traffic, adding more tables to the upstairs loft, and installing additional power outlets for people who want to work or study there.
Maple Syrup, Apple Spice and a Nod to Granville's Roots
Central Ohio maple syrup, sourced locally from producers near Utica, is set to feature prominently in some of the new beverages. The cafe also plans to experiment with apple-inspired specialty drinks that pair apple flavors with spices, tying the morning menu back to the cidery's identity. That identity runs deep: Seek-No-Further crafts traditional New England-style ciders using heirloom apples from Northeast orchards alongside fresh fruit and honey sourced from Central Ohio farms, according to the cidery's own site.
The name itself is a piece of local history. Granville's founders migrated from Massachusetts in 1805 and brought uprooted Westfield Seek-No-Further apple trees with them, according to Ohio Magazine. The Westfield Seek-No-Further is an 18th-century heirloom variety documented as early as 1796, prized for its sweet-tart flavor and aromatic white flesh, per Honeycrisp.com's history of the fruit. To make room for the added morning production, the cidery has moved some of its cider-making off-site, WhatNow Columbus reports, while the cidery itself remains primarily an evening destination.
Filling a Gap Near Denison's Front Door
The cafe's target customers are morning commuters and people looking for workspace or a place to meet, the outlet notes, in a village where Denison University's nearly 3,000 undergraduates live almost entirely on campus within walking distance of downtown Elm Street. The cidery already functions as something of a community hub outside its cafe ambitions, hosting recurring events like Mountain Bike Mondays, Music Bingo Tuesdays and the Granville Run Club 5K on Wednesdays, according to the business's own site.
The building itself, a converted two-story rustic barn at 126 E. Elm St., includes a downstairs taproom, an upstairs loft that holds up to about 50 people, and an outdoor patio that the owners plan to leave unchanged. Seek-No-Further opened in downtown Granville in 2021, entering what was then a sparse Central Ohio hard cider market alongside Columbus-based Mad Moon Craft Cidery, according to a 2022 account from Breakfast With Nick.
No exact opening date has been set yet, and the owners are still targeting mid-to-late September for the cafe's debut, per WhatNow Columbus. If the timeline holds, Granville will have a new walkable coffee and gathering spot in a downtown that, until now, didn't have much going on before the afternoon.
