Shoulder season weather calls for comfort food, and few dishes hit the mark like French onion soup. A favorite menu item at Sonoma Cider's recently opened taproom and restaurant in Healdsburg, California, Executive Chef Jordan Adorni uses the house's apple brandy as...
Another seasonal makes the rounds for Bock Rock Hard Cider, just in time to blow the winter blues away. The Citrus Cider was released in the end of January, promising a sunny glow in its packaging, color and overall flavor. Burgeoning from its rural roots to the...
From down South to the West Coast and back East, the craft cider industry is booming with flavor and everyone wants a taste. The Midwest has seen more cider locations than ever and what better way to welcome spring than creating a hard cider bucket list for the warmer...
For aspiring cidermakers, Branden Welshons and Connor Meznarich of California-based Jean Marie Cidery were given a golden opportunity: complete access to a small orchard in exchange for the maintenance and care of the trees. While taking on this tedious task, weekends...
A fruit basket in the already agriculturally abundant Pacific Northwest, wild and domesticated trees dot the highways that saunter through Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. It's from these trees — the fruit trees of neighbors, forgotten orchards of owners past,...
From West to East and everywhere in between, the craft cider industry is continuing to expand with each sip. As our palates develop, so do the cidermakers and signatures cider that bring us back for more. According to recent Nielsen data released at CiderCon, local...
The mere mention of Salem, Massachusetts, calls to mind an array of related images: Pointy hats, black cats, the hocus pocus we’ve seen in movies and television, and the etchings in history books chronicling the witch trials of 1692. From its world-famous Halloween...
In this Valentine's Day cocktail built for two, Stem Cider's L'Acier is the perfect partner. The Denver cidery's bright, clean and dry cider also shoots out tannin for structure and dry fruit notes, working as a broad and crisp cider topping to this approachable...
Cider has been in the Beck family for generations. Whether its production was legal or not is another story, but the current generation, with Mike Beck at the helm, is playing by all the rules and bringing Michigan cider to the forefront of the industry. The original...
An apple a day is coming easier and easier with new cideries opening up across North America. From the East to West Coasts, north to south and everywhere in between, cidermakers are thriving in the industry and everyone wants in. Taste what’s available near you with...
