029: Tom Oliver | Oliver’s Cider and Perry, UK

Tom Oliver chats on 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 3-different cider … Read more

022: Gregory Hall | Virtue Cider, Michigan

Getting to cider for Gregory Hall, was one part luck and a whole lot 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 … Read more

019: Neil MacDonald | Orchard Park Farms, 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. I spoke with Neil while at CiderCon in Portland Oregon. Neil was granted a scholarship from the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust which has … Read more