APPLE TALES with Darlene Hayes Baldwin sprouted sometime in the middle of the 18th century in Massachusetts, though exactly where depends a bit on which origin story you believe. At the time,...
Baldwin: What’s in a Name?
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A Decade Celebration for Noble Cider
Noble Cider in Asheville, North Carolina, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event marked with live music, food and cake, door prizes and the release of a new flagship cider. Founded...
Book Review: A Grand World Tour in Claude Jolicoeur’s ‘Cider Planet’
There is no better reference book for the small cidermaker than Claude Jolicoeur’s The New Cidermakers Handbook, whether the goal is just to make a few gallons for drinking at home or getting...
InCider Insights with Lee Reeve – Volume 12
I’ve been importing cider for the last three years. It’s not a business I intended to start; instead it was instead born out of necessity. Three years has been a very long time, a journey fraught...
Portland’s Swift Cider seeks to reclaim – and define – traditional ciders
According to Aidan Currie, owner of Portland, Oregon–based Swift Cider, Cider is the most American of beverages. As the nation grew, so did the apple orchards. Apples were pressed into cider each...
Crabapples: Once Unreliable, Now Embraced
Apple Tales with Darlene Hayes This is a tale about a group of apples that is not very familiar to most people: crabapples. Throughout history, they’ve been thought of as thoroughly hard, sour,...