Wintertime may be the quietest season, but the news about cider was loud and clear: Hard cider is (still) on the rise and more professionals are getting involved in the industry than ever before. Those trends were evident at the cider community’s annual CiderCon...
Autumn and all of its abundance is a special time of year for the cider industry. When the time is just ripe, orchardists harvest their apples and cidermakers get to pressing. And too, cider journalists across the country are busy crafting stories about those...
As the sober movement gains momentum, it’s safe to say that the new market for non-alcoholic cider is here to stay. “The NA market is on a spectacular growth trajectory as consumers seek alternatives to alcoholic beverages,” says Lee Larsen, co-founder and CEO of 2...
More and more people are talking about craft cider than ever before, especially in the news. As the industry continues to make headlines, Cidercraft is keeping a close watch on business news and the emerging trends. This summer, North American cider is in the press...
As the saying goes, you can take the chef out of the kitchen and put him in a cidery — but you can’t take the kitchen out of the chef when he’s crafting cider. At least that’s the case for Andy Hannas, the cidermaker at Charlottesville, Virginia’s Potter’s Craft...
When the solar eclipse of 2017 crept across the globe, Nikki West was in New York attending what would become the Cider Institute of North America (CINA) at Cornell University. She was surrounded by like minds learning the particulars of crafting her favorite...
Virginia’s status as an agricultural hub gives cideries in the state abundant access to ripe fruit and fertile land for the cultivation thereof — not to mention a lot of institutional infrastructure that supports the state’s farm operations. The Virginia Cider...
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