Time to Pour Some Cider. But Which Glass?
So many ciders, so many glasses. Here’s how to choose the best vessel for your preferred cider style
Feb
2023
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Darlene Hayes
Jan
2023
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Stoke Red: Small-town Apple Wins Big Competition
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes Stoke Red never became the sort of household name that Kingston Black did, although it is a similar mild bittersharp. You won’t find old newspaper ads touting this variety, and there certainly aren’t the same number of single-variety...
Dec
2022
8
Northern Spy: A Very New York Apple
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes There are a handful of apple varieties that just say “New York” to me, and Northern Spy is one of them. Some apples have made homes and reputations for themselves in any number of other places — like Newtown Pippin — but even though...
Nov
2022
7
Yarlington Mill – A Scrappy, yet Prolific, English Apple
APPLE TALES WITH DARLENE HAYES Yarlington Mill was named for, obviously enough, a mill in the Somerset village of Yarlington, England. The village grain mill was an important feature in the lives of local residents. Everyone used it, and everyone knew the miller. As...
Sep
2022
27
Baldwin: What’s in a Name?
APPLE TALES with Darlene Hayes Baldwin sprouted sometime in the middle of the 18th century in Massachusetts, though exactly where depends a bit on which origin story you believe. At the time, growing apples in New England looked very different than it would by the...
Sep
2022
20
Book Review: A Grand World Tour in Claude Jolicoeur’s ‘Cider Planet’
There is no better reference book for the small cidermaker than Claude Jolicoeur’s The New Cidermakers Handbook, whether the goal is just to make a few gallons for drinking at home or getting started in a small business. It is a comprehensive deep dive that grew out...
Aug
2022
19
Crabapples: Once Unreliable, Now Embraced
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes This is a tale about a group of apples that is not very familiar to most people: crabapples. Throughout history, they’ve been thought of as thoroughly hard, sour, astringent, bitter and unpleasant to eat — mostly because they were. Due...
Jul
2022
20
McIntosh: The Popular U.S. Apple Born Elsewhere
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes McIntosh is such a familiar apple in the United States, we tend to forget that it came from farther north in Canada. It got its name from John McIntosh (1777-1845), who discovered it growing on land he was clearing near Matilda Township,...
Jun
2022
28
Newtown Pippin: An American Export Conquers the World
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes The global trade in fresh fruit amounts to about 80 tons a year with a value of roughly $75 billion. This mass globalization of the fruit trade is relatively modern phenomena, however, and there’s an argument to be made that it was...
May
2022
11
Golden Russet: An Apple of Many Names
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes My first deep dive into apple history came in 2017. I’d been asked to be part of an evening focused on the Golden Russet, which would include some history, a chance to sample fresh fruit from various orchards across the country, and...
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