Ever wonder what it’s like to step into a cidermaker’s barrel room and taste your way through fermentations in progress? In this exclusive Patreon bonus episode, Cider Chat takes you straight to the heart of 1000 Stone Farm in Brookfield, Vermont, where cidermaker Kyle Doda opens barrel after barrel of his small-batch, thoughtful ciders. In … Read more
Rainy Days Goes Best with Dry Cider in the Barrel Room Walking into the barrel room at Oliver’s Cider and Perry Company, you might think you know what to expect. But surrounded by whitewashed stone walls, standing beneath the old Hessian sacking floor, and facing rows of aging barrels, I quickly realized this wasn’t just … Read more
Using Oak Barrels in Cidermaking – What do you want to know? Ryan Monkman of FieldBird Cider based in Prince Edward County, Ontario Canada presented an extended seminar on Oak Barrels at CiderCon 2019 in Chicago. The workshop description: It’s like a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book…but with booze. A dozen mini-talks on oak. The crowd decides … Read more
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