I spend a lot of time researching, thinking, talking, tasting and drinking cider. As editor-in-chief of this magazine and two other publications we produce, I can't say I am teeming with spare time but when I get a moment, I like to cook. My husband is the more adept...
Maine is home to over 15 makers of cider and all fall into the southern portion of the state. In the physical middle of the pack, Norumbega Cidery sits on a family farmstead — complete with pigs and crops — in New Gloucester, about 35 minutes north of Portland. The...
"Close your eyes and follow the breath inward," I instruct a group of somewhat unlikely yogis. Inviting students to seat themselves deeply in the present moment is something I've grown well versed in since becoming a yoga instructor in 2010, though teaching in a...
Nick Gunn is a man who wears many hats. Gunn’s journey to becoming a founding member and president of The Cider Institute of North America is unique, quirky and downright interesting. “I married into wine royalty,” Gunn chuckles when asked about how he got into the...
Virginia is for lovers, and has been since the adage was coined in 1969. But Virginia has been for cider lovers since the commonwealth was formed in the founding of America, with patriots like Thomas Jefferson and his Monticello orchard outside Charlottesville leading...
The year 2017 is starting to look brighter and brighter. New cideries are opening up left and right and there’s plenty to taste across North America. From the East to West Coasts, north to south and everywhere in between, cidermakers are thriving in the industry and...
A classic dish from the United Kingdom, pork stew welcomes the added ingredient of cider. For David Robertson, vice president of marketing at Rootstock Hard Cider in Williamson, New York, he mirrors this cozy January recipe after English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's...
Ingenuity is nothing new in the Pacific Northwest, home of Amazon, Nike, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also the modern hopped cider movement. The Pacific Northwest was predicted to bring in nearly 96 percent of the United States' total hop harvest for...
Minnesota native Rob Fisk’s life has always been driven by local, growing up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and studying how to make that land beautiful. After experimenting with homebrewing in college, a fervor for fermentation led him to graduate school for...
"The best things in life are trees." A British Columbia brewery's tagline also rings true with its cider, a line it has been producing since 2011. From the heart of BC wine country, Tree Brewing Co. enters its 21st year of production in 2017, making a wide variety of...
