By: Gabe Cook
The cider market in the United States has grown over 500 percent since 2011. While that is something to crow about, cider’s roots go much deeper and farther than just…
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Review: Courthouse Creek Cider Straight, No Chaser
Contained by a swing-top, this cider popped out of the bottle like the release of a Champagne cork, mighty bubbles spilling out the scents of sour, sidra-like apple. Add in…
Perry for Me, Perry for You: 6 Perries to Try Now
Perry is the hero benchwarmer of fruity booze — it hangs on the sidelines while cider gets all the buzz, but the fermented pear drink is there for the win…
6 Ciders for Thanksgiving Meal Success
Whether you are sticking to the classics of turkey or still in shock your father is changing it up with roasting prime rib, there’s a cider for each component of…
Q&A with Steve Selin of South Hill Cider
A musician, forager and crafter, Steve Selin wears many hats. Owner and operator of South Hill Cider in Ithaca, New York, Selin has been growing his business over the past…
Review: Zeffer Cider Hop Infused Cider
Hawkes Bay might be best known as the oldest and second largest wine region in New Zealand — touting similar soils and climate to France’s famed Bordeaux — but it…
Op-Ed: Can Cider Help Restore Our Connection to the Land?
Perhaps some of you apple lovers have seen this cosmic quotation from astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the…
Sip Publishing Announces Media Services For Hire
Sip Publishing — privately owned and operated publishing house and parent company of Sip Northwest and Cidercraft magazines — announces the launch of its media services. Allow the leading journalistic…
Recipe: Crooked City Cider’s Lotta Fit & Ginger
Better known as the San Francisco Favorite, this cocktail is named in honor of the historic Bay Area import, Lotta Crabtree, who was once the highest paid female performer in…
Review: Eden Ciders Harvest Cider
You had me at “apple sunshine in a can.” The Harvest Cider — a canned offering from Vermont’s Eden Ciders — places this descriptor on its equally sunny orange and…