By: Darlene Hayes
It is an exciting time to be a cider enthusiast. Not only are more companies making interesting ciders to drink, but we’re also being treated to a host of new…
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Recipes
Recipe: Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad with Hard Cider Vinaigrette
This is the time of year when seasonal food is on the cusp of transition, blending flavors and ingredients from both winter and spring, even with a hint of summer…
5 Cider Cocktails to Stock for Home Quarantine
We get it, the world is a pretty weird place right now. Between the school closures, shrinking of public gathering sizes and many of our favorite drinking establishments closing temporarily…
Cocktail Recipe: Shen Nong’s Elixir from Red Star Tavern
When Red Star Tavern bartender Brandon Lockman names his cocktail creations, he says the titling of the drinks usually involve a historical search. “I wanted to do a tea-based cocktail…
Shake Up NYE with Cider Cocktails
Move over, Champagne — make way for cider cocktails this New Year’s Eve! To help us in this campaign, we enlisted the cider-happy forces of Blake’s Hard Cider in Armada,…
7 Festive Cider Cocktails for Christmas
Or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and any other nonsecular holiday to get festive for! These seven cider cocktails came from our test bar and are now gifted to you just in time…
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…
Recipe: Cazuela de Chorizos à la Sidra
Brighten up your fall menu with warm-weather tapas pairings from sunny Spain. These sidras range from deeply traditional dry farmhouse choices to lighter, more modern canned options that are perfect…
Recipe: Gather ‘Round Punch with Apple Brandy
When a chill starts to creep into the air, a hot cider drink is just what’s needed to warm fingers and toes. Opt for off-dry or sweetened ciders to build…
Recipe: Aerlume’s Pear Salad + Dragon’s Head Perry
It might have been a croissant in Paris that convinced Chef Maggie Trujillo to don the white jacket and sharpen her knives, but it was the pear in Washington state…