Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes William Dabinett was born in 1861, the 69th soul in the small Somerset village of Middle Lambrook, United Kingdom. His father, also William, was a farm laborer and his mother, Sarah, a glover — working class families needed to earn every...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes The highway north from San Francisco winds its way through car dealerships and commercial districts, eventually opening up to vineyards, narrowing from eight lanes to two as it passes out of farmed land and into the shadow of giant...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes So many of the apple varieties that come up in conversation when talking about cider have long histories, occasionally well documented, but more often not. GoldRush is different. It is a thoroughly modern fruit, the product of focused...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes By Darlene Hayes There are a handful of apple varieties originating in England whose names quicken the heart of a cidermaker. One of these is Foxwhelp. It came as quite a disappointment, then, to discover that the apple maintained under...
Darlene Hayes, author of Cider Cocktails – Another Bite of the Apple and Cidercraft Publisher, Kristin Ackerman Bacon whip up 3 simple but elegant cider cocktails perfect for your upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration or really anytime for that matter! Featured...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes The modern cider enthusiast tends to think of England when the subject of famous apples for cider comes up, but the United States has had its fair share, as well. Harrison, the subject of a previous Apple Tale, is a good example. Most...
It is an exciting time to be a cider enthusiast. Not only are more companies making interesting ciders to drink, but we’re also being treated to a host of new books to feed our cider intellect. Earlier this year it was “American Cider” by Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo,...
I spend a lot of time thinking about apples and what happens when you ferment them. I’ve literally spent years seeking out ciders made from a single variety hoping that I can begin to understand that particular apple, attempting to determine what aromas and flavors...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes The golden days of August are a time of great abundance in California’s Sonoma County where the late summer air around the small town of Sebastopol is perfumed with one of the county’s historic bounties, Gravenstein apples. It’s an old...
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes There were trees as far as the eye could see, boughs heavy with apples ripening in the golden October sun – 1.6 million trees growing on an estimated 40,000 acres at one count, 2.5 million a decade later. You would be forgiven for...
