This year's Great Lakes International Cider and Perry competition, known as GLINTCAP, was a record setter with entries from seven countries, 784 in the commercial division and 219 from home cidermakers, making it now the largest cider competition in the world. Some...
Few college students immediately enter their field of focus upon graduating, even fewer enter it before they graduate. For Ross Brockman and Tyler Mosher, they launched their cider business during their senior year of college. Theirs was a vocation of practice—from...
Cider in Québec has had a tough run. After Canada's short stint with prohibition, wine, beer and even spirits were allowed back into production, but cider—a beverage that was flourishing in 19th and 20th century Québec—was missed in the inclusion, a mistake that...
If there is one thing the Hemly family knows, it's pears. The family has been growing the fruit on the skirts of the Sacramento River for six generations. Spanning acreage well into the triple digits, the orchard grows cherry, pear and apple trees, with the latter...
New York really is the Big Apple. It comes as second nature for apples to be a top crop commodity—the state produces an average of 29.5 million bushels per year, which is the second largest in the country. On the regular, 53 percent of this production is sold as...
Unless you are a member of your local audubon chapter or are a native of the Pacific Northwest, you might not be familiar with the swift. This highly agile, aerial bird calls Portland, Oregon home during the temperate fall months, on its migration down to warmer...
Come out of hibernation March 19, the day before the spring equinox, and join more than 10 different Northwest cideries in celebrating the start of a new season: the Northwest Cider Association will host the third annual Cider Rite of Spring in Portland, Oregon at...
Sticky, candy-coated fingers and fluorescent-dyed tongues are luxuries too often overlooked past the playground and training wheel years. A scolding from the dentist is well worth the opportunity to cast off the candy wrappers and get to twirling some sugar on a...
Ugly, battered and bruised—Ithaca, New York-based South Hill Cider is not afraid of a little bump on the flesh of its apples. Sourcing from abandoned orchards with now feral trees, along with Finger Lakes orchards growing cider apples, South Hill cidermaker,...
The 2016 CiderCON is right around the corner and will be taking place in Portland, Oregon, February 2 to 6 at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower. Although registration is closed for the conference itself (and exclusive to trade), there are lots of other events...
