Quebrada del Chucao is a family owned cidery in Villarica (vee aree-ka), a village located in southern Chile. The Nahrwold family along with cousin Diego Rivera have been making cider commercially since 2012. Villarica is located approximately 746 kilometers/463 miles south of the capital of Santiago. In view of the town is a volcano that … Read more
For Andreas’ Brännland Cider is Ice Cider Andreas Sundgren of Brännland Cider discusss iscider (ice cider) in this chat. He has won multiple awards for his ice cider and follows traditional techniques that are “true to the quality denomination of Quebec”. He reached out to renown American ice cidermaker Eleanor Leger of Eden Cider of Newport … Read more
Stem Cider was started by Eric Foster and Phil Kao, Michigan natives who founded their urban cidery in Denver Colorado. Since opening in 2014, they have already been awarded a bevy of cider medals at the Great Lakes International Cider and Perry Competition (GLINTCAP) see list below. Stem brings apple and “single strength” juice in … Read more
Who is Tim? Tim Larsen was at the all day event, Pour the Core in Brooklyn, NYC waiting on a long line of thirsty cider drinkers. During a the break between sessions I was able to squirrel away with Tim in a back corner of the Brooklyn Expo Center and chat Snowdrift ciders and their … Read more
Shannon Edgar’s historical Cider town of Sherborn Massachusetts Stormalong is already winning awards! In spring of 2016, at Michigan’s Great Lakes International Cider and Perry Competition (GLINTCAP) Stormalong Hard Cider took home 5 medals! Look at the bottom of the page for the listing. This chat begins with Shannon and Benjamin Roberts-Sano who works with … Read more
Danielle von Scheiner is putting the “BIG” back into New York City’s apple love, with her new cidery Big Apple Hard Cider. She began learning the science of fermentation at the age of 12 while helping her dad make wine. More recently she began experimenting with apples and then after a motorcycle accident (she was … Read more
Adam Krakowsk’s new book Vermont Prohibition: Teetotalers, Bootleggers & Corruption (2016 Arcadia Press) carves out the state of Vermont’s cider, beer, and spirits history in relationship to prohibition. Vermont Prohibition covers, the politics, policy, economics, religion and social impact that prohibition had on Vermont. Read about the Liquor Law of 1853 that targeted distilled spirits while conveniently protecting … Read more
Part 2 at Farnum Hill Cider We delve into tasting 7-ciders with the team at Farnum Hill Cider. Steve Woods, whom along with his wife Louisa D. Spencer founded the cidery, explains how this tasting, which takes place 3-4 times per week, is conducted. The descriptors fly, laughter follows and somehow despite tasting 7-ciders the … Read more
This is Part 1 of a two part chat with the founders and cidermakers at Farnum Hill Cider, in Lebanon New Hampshire. The cidery sits on the slope of Farnum Hill. Like many New England orchards and farms there is not necessarily open continuous land, but small acreage here and there, wherein the case of … Read more
Sam Reid is based in Tasmania, a state of Australia. He is a partner at Willie Smith’s Cider and President of Cider Australia. Cider in Australia Tasmania is what Sam calls the smallest state of Australia…which by the way mainland Australia is equal in size to the continental United States. It was colonized by the … Read more
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