By: Erin James
“This cider is lekker.” South African slang translation: “This cider is tasty.” More than a mantra, South African native Liz Kearns and her husband and business partner, Brendan, recently launched…
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Whetstone CiderWorks Orchard Queen
After spending half a year at a vineyard in southern France, Jason MacArthur fell smitten with cider. Fifteen years later, he and his wife, Lauren, matured that infatuation and opened…
Scrumpy Select: Woodchuck Hard Cider Gumption
Hard cider in the United States has seen a few ups and downs on the popularity scale over the years, and while craft ciders are increasingly desired these days, apple-fermented…
Scrumpy Select: Anthem Blind Tiger Bourbon Barrel Aged Cider
Salem, Oregon’s Wandering Aengus Ciderworks uses heirloom apple varieties and fosters a strong relationship between cidermaker and fruit when creating cider. The same approach is used for their second brand,…
Scrumpy Select: Liberty Ciderworks Turncoat Dry Hop
This story originally ran on our sister publication’s website, Sip Northwest. By Erin James Business is good for Liberty Ciderworks, the young Spokane, Washington urban cidery that quickly moved from…
Scrumpy Select: Nine Pin Cider Works
Story has it that fictional protagonist and beloved narcoleptic wilderness-man Rip Van Winkle (in the namesake story by author Washington Irving) wandered through New York’s Catskills Mountains, following a man…
Scrumpy Select: Uncle John’s Hard Cider Russet
Uncle John’s Cider Mill is looking good for 97-years-old. The fruit house was established on the Beck family farm as a place to store and package the fruit before it…
Blake’s Hard Cider Beard Bender
“It’s time to restore the great American beverage to its former glory,” says a bearded, leather-vested, silver-tongued millenial cider enthusiast in a commercial Blake’s Hard Cider Co. put out last…
Red Tank Elder-Cherry Cider
Bend, Oregon is synonymous with craft beverage. Also known as “Beer Town, U.S.A.” courtesy of its 23 breweries in the mountain city of 80,000 (the most breweries per capita in…
Pommies Dry Cider
From Southern Cliff Brands, a boutique supplier of premium beverage brands in Canada, comes Pommies ciders—the 100-percent Ontario-grown hard cider. Sans artificial flavor, color or concentrate, Pommies is made from…
