What can an old apple tree tell us? Quite a lot, if you know how to listen. Recorded live at the 23rd Annual Heirloom Apple Day at Scott Farm in Dummerston, Vermont, this presentation brings together renown Apple Detective, historian and preservationist John Bunker and historian Professor Todd Little-Siebold for a wide-ranging look at the … Read more
What makes a cider company valuable? A great cider is part of the answer. But Jeffrey House, founder of ACE Cider, will tell you it takes a whole lot more than what’s in the bottle. House and his wife Angela founded the California Cider Company in 1993 and built ACE into a nationally distributed brand … Read more
Before Episode 500 of Cider Chat, this episode takes a moment to pause, look back, and consider the era of cider we are currently living in. Originally recorded in the spring of 2020 during a time of global shutdowns, this Pommes in Art episode explored the relationship between art history and cider history — and … Read more
In this episode of Cider Chat, we hear from Tom Hart of Humboldt Cider Company, located in Eureka, California along the rugged Pacific coastline behind what locals call the Redwood Curtain. We also discusses preserving the original Albert Etter orchard in Humboldt County and continuing the legacy of these historic cider apples. Humboldt Cider began … Read more
What is Asturian cider? Asturian cider (sidra natural) is a traditionally fermented apple cider from Asturias, Spain, served through a high pour (escanciado) and shared socially in small servings called culines. This episode is part of the Cider Chat archive documenting global cider traditions and producers since 2015. In this epic replay from Season 2 … Read more
An early conversation that explored possibilities cider was only beginning to consider. As Cider Chat moves toward its 500th episode, we revisit conversations from the earliest seasons, taking a long view of the moments that quietly shaped where cider and this podcast would go. This episode, originally recorded in Season One, features legendary winemaker Randall … Read more
Meet Patrick McCauley, a Michigan-based cider maker and researcher, who is questioning some of the most common myths about American cider history.What Patrick uncovers is a far more regional, farm-based, and resilient cider story than the usual “cider died because of Prohibition” narrative. Cider Didn’t Decline When We Think It Did One of the biggest … Read more
Cider’s back story behind the American Revolution In the 1700s ceramic teapots were the political bumper stickers of the day! In this episode we hear about the Cyder Act teapot that the Museum of the American Revolution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has just acquired. The museum’s Curator of Collections, Mark Turdo, tells us how the … Read more
Washtenaw County Cider Mills 1841 – Present Day Patrick McCauley grew up in south eastern Michigan and recalls visiting cider mills as a child, enjoying in the fresh pressed apple juice and the cider donuts. Today he is avid cider maker and realtor in the Ann Arbor area a job that allows him to have … Read more
Omni is defined as being a bit of everything. With that definition in place it is fair to say that Cider is in the Era of Omnia. Let’s search for the fruit of the story from the Renaissance era to the often-bizarre works of the Mannerist painter and sculptors of that time. We are exploring … Read more
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