Cider Chat Ep 29. In the Hop

105: Tom Oliver on Making Perry | UK

  Perry Making tips with Tom Oliver This week’s chat was recorded during Tom Oliver’s presentation at CiderDays 2017. No surprise that Tom says you are reliant upon the fruit Don’t work with culinary pears or apples All about minimum intervention Ferments with wild yeast – does not pitch yeast. Doesn’t use sulfite prior to … Read more

Cider Chat Ep 29. In the Hop

029: At The Hop at Oliver’s Cider and Perry, UK

Tom Oliver shares his approach to hopped cider and the best of what the US and UK have to look forward to in the cider market. What he saw in US hopped ciders back in 2013 ignited his desire to try his hand at adding hops to cider to his bittersweet cider. He worked with … Read more

Cider Chat Ep 022 Greg Hall Virtue Cider 300x200

022: Gregory Hall | Virtue Cider, Michigan

Getting to cider for Gregory Hall, was one part luck and a whole lotta of beer. When his father John Hall founded the Chicago based Goose Island Brewery in 1988, it took only 3 years before Greg was at the helm brewing at “Goose”. Twenty years later in 2011, the brewery would be sold to Anheuser-Busch-InBev. … Read more

Cider Chat Ep: 019 Neil MacDonald, Orchard Pig Cider

019: Neil MacDonald | Orchard Pig Cider, UK

Neil MacDonald is a self described “man of the soil”. He co-launched Orchard Pig Cider in 2004. His specialty is apple growing and the primary process of the cidermaking at Orchard Pig Cider. This recording was taped with Neil at CiderCon 2016 in Portland Oregon. The Path to the Orchard Pig Cider Neil was granted … Read more