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344: Ciders that are Playing with Aging | Ragged Hill Cider, MA

Cider on the Table like Fine Wine at Ragged Hill Steve Garwood and daughter Anne Garwood Hampp are the mastermind duo at Ragged Hill Cider based in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. They brought a selection of bottles to taste through and we started with the Baldwin. “Body gives you a perception of fullness and sweetness” is … Read more

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342: Cider Celebrities in the House & Bottles | CiderDays 2.0 ~ Part 2

Celebrities in Cider flocking to CiderDays 2.0 CiderDays and has now been dubbed as CiderDays 2.0 and the celebrities attending can both be found in the bottles and the new and familiar face of cider today at this November 4th -6th.  Finally the return of in person events and friends from afar flocking to western … Read more

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329: Cider Heroine Judith Maloney | West County Cider, MA

CiderDays 2.0 Cider Dinner on November 5, 2022 with 6 outstanding women producers from the east coast at the Hawks and Reed Performing Art Center in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Dine with: Judith Maloney of West County Cider (MA) Lisa Laird Dunn of Lairds & Company (NJ) Louisa Spencer of Farnum Hill Cider & Poverty Lane Orchard (NH) … Read more

Episode 258 Anne and Steve Ragged Hill on Cider Chat

258: Ragged Hill Design | Building a Cidery Part 4

Ragged Hill Cidery since 2017 Steve Garwood is the Head Cidermaker at Ragged Hill Cidery. He and his daughter Anne Garwood Hampp who manages Sales and Marketing and orchardist Keith Arsenault form the Ragged Hill Cider Company in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Keith began planting the orchard back in 1984. Find Apple Varieties at Ragged Hill … Read more

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243: Cider Trail 2020 | CiderDays Part 1

Plan the Perfect Cider Road Trip! This is Part 1 of a two part series on the new Cider Trail for Franklin County CiderDays 2020. The following is a recommended loop to visit 5 venues on the map. You can go in either direction of this loop – look to ciderdays.org to find the map … Read more

225: Terroir Spotlight | western Massachusetts

New England was the Plymouth Rock of cider in the US for the colonist and western Massachusetts is the launch pad of the modern day US cider market. It was here in 1984 that West County Cider and The Maloney family rekindled America’s love affair with cider. Thirty Six years forward to 2020, provides a … Read more