Downtown Lancaster is renowned for its array of food-and-beverage establishments. Now that selection has gotten even broader.

Levengoods of Lancaster, the city’s first hard-cider tasting room, opened Wednesday at 104 W. King St., formerly home to the Sunshine Art+Design gallery.

“I saw an opportunity,” said owner Lane Levengood, who began making hard cider at home as a hobby four years ago.

Levengood, a Lancaster city resident for 18 years, previously worked in production at Spring House Brewing and Thistle Finch Distillery.

Making cider, though, “is most similar to wine making,” he said. In fact, the cidery is licensed by the state as a limited winery.

Levengood makes the tasting room’s selection of four hard ciders on the premises, using Lancaster County-grown fruit. Its three fermentation tanks each hold 275 gallons.

The tasting room’s initial hard (alcoholic) cider choices are dry, original, sweet and seasonal (now tart cherry, to be switched to peach in a few weeks). Also on tap are four Pennsylvania beers. The beverages are supplemented by a limited food menu.

Levengoods of Lancaster has three employees and seating for about 35 in a 1,350-square-foot space. Levengood declined to disclose the project cost.