It was a long and sometimes fruitless - but mostly very fruitful in the apple sense - journey for Burlington, Vermont's Citizen Cider, but the once small-batch cidery has successfully settled into the acclaim of the East Coast cider world. Partnering with...
The Fifth Annual Oregon Cider Week returns June 16-26 with a 10-day marathon of cider-centric events. Hosted by the Northwest Cider Association, Oregon Cider Week will celebrate all things apple, featuring tastings, cider dinners, tap takeovers and even a...
From production to distribution, sales to public relations, Dana Bushouse of Crooked City Cider does it all. This small-batch cidery is strictly a one-woman show. Based in uptown Oakland, California, Bushouse and Crooked City Cider strive to be the Bay Area’s...
Originally a wine bar known as Six Plates, Durham North Carolina’s Black Twig Cider House had much to live up to upon transitioning into the cider world. “We wanted to show the beauty of cider,” explains owner Mattie Beason of Black Twig’s journey from wine bar to...
With the namesake derived from a mythical-mighty titan, you would expect nothing short of legendary when it comes to the cider produced by Dan and Samantha McCoy of Atlas Cider in Bend, Oregon. For three years the McCoys have been fermenting fruits and concocting...
Vincent Sterne, owner of Two Rivers Cider, remembers the days of making barely drinkable cider. Those days were a long time ago. Now 20 years into the cider business, Two Rivers Cider has carved a name for itself within the California cider region. From their...
On April 23, Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider will host the 3rd Annual Hopped Cider Fest in Portland, Oregon. From 12 pm to 9 pm, lap up hopped cider galore - over 36 hopped ciders will be on tap! And the fun doesn’t stop there. During Hopped Cider Fest there will be free...
Distinct, succinct and spicy—ginger ciders are a style of sipper hard to fit into a category other than its own. A New World cider fashion originating from the innovative cidermakers of the Pacific Northwest, the piquant ginger root brings powerful spice flavors to...
Doughnuts have always been one of my favorite desserts. But what’s not to like about sweet, chewy, deep-fried dough? While I loved eating the pillowy rounds of sugar-drenched sweetness, the idea of making doughnuts in my own kitchen always seemed off limits. I...
Cidermakers have been looking for unique ways to get craft beer drinkers excited about the cider industry. It seems they have found the way paved with hops. Hopped ciders are an ingenious way of making cider that entertains the palate of both the beer drinker and...
