A cider news dispatches on what’s happening across the global cider world! From new cideries, trail openings, competition results, orchard news, and the stories from out and about Ciderville. Curated by Cider Chat Central the cider hub of the world’s #1 cider podcast.
Cider in Zicht opens at De Gerdeneer with ten interpretive panels, an ambitious search for cider artifacts and a mission to document the Netherlands’ emerging cider culture while its history is still being written. The first cider museum in the Netherlands doesn’t yet have display cases filled with antique presses, historic bottles or centuries-old orchard … Read more
Penn State’s latest analysis compares drinking frequency among generations of existing cider consumers. Younger adults who already drink cider reported reaching for it more often than older participants in newly published Penn State Extension research. The October 26 analysis found that 57% of the combined Gen Z and Millennial group drank hard cider at least … Read more
By Ria Windcaller | eCiderNews™October 20, 2026 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the nearly 160-year-old federal home distilling ban, a prohibition on distilling spirits at home. The case could ultimately change what Americans are legally allowed to produce for their own personal use. On October 19, the Supreme Court … Read more
October 12, 2026 Wilding Cider and Rawlins Family Cider have joined forces on a quarterly cider box that showcases their own bottles alongside a rotating selection from other Somerset producers. A subscription option launches October 18. For a small cider maker, filling a subscription club with enough different releases is a big ask. Wilding Cider’s … Read more
The New York Times has published an obituary of Ben Watson, the influential author, editor, apple advocate and longtime figure in the American cider community who died August 15 at his home in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He was 64. Written by New York Times reporter Michael S. Rosenwald, the obituary brings national attention to Watson’s … Read more
Sometimes it takes someone asking you to look backward to see how far a story has traveled. The September-December 2026 issue of Uniquely Quabbin magazine includes an article I wrote about the cider history of western Massachusetts, and how my own path through cider began here before leading to Cider Chat®, eCiderNews™ and Totally Cider … Read more
When the Great International Beer, Cider, Mead & Sake Competition (GIBCMSC) returns to Connecticut on November 7, cider will once again share the judging tables with beer, mead, sake and an increasingly broad assortment of beverages. It wasn’t always that way. Nearly three decades ago, when the competition was getting started in Providence, Rhode Island, … Read more
By Ria Windcaller | eCiderNews CRESTLINE, California — In the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California, Richard Krumwiede is expecting nearly 20 tons of apples this year from orchards where some of the trees have been standing for roughly a century. But the 2026 harvest at Sycamore Ranch Winery & Cidery is about more than … Read more
Wendell Berry never wrote a handbook for growing cider apples or making cider. But his ideas about farming, land, community and the people who tend both helped shape generations of growers… including pomologist Mike Biltonen of Know Your Roots. Wendell Berry died this month at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, at the age of … Read more
Press Then Press draws a specific kind of cider drinker. What the shop hears about pommeau, perry, sulfites and patience may say less about the mainstream market and more about where the category’s edges are moving. A question about still cider led eCiderNews somewhere unexpected. After encountering more American producers making still cider, including Sowams … Read more
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