By: Erin James
The first post-Prohibition farm cidery in New York’s Rochester region, Rootstock Ciderworks produces its fermented apple products (including spirits) from a fifth-generation family farm. DeFisher Fruit Farms hosts more than…
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Reviews
Review: Peak Light Field Run Dry Cider
If you’re not familiar with Oregon’s Sauvie Island, you’re not alone. The Columbia River’s largest island is located at the junction of the mighty state-bordering river, the Willamette River and…
Review: 2019 Son of Man Sagardo
In the marketing monarchy of cider, packaging is king. He serves with a powerful hand, too — considering language has changed in the last few months in regards to cider…
Review: Carlson Orchards Shandy Stand
About this time two years back, Massachusetts’ Carlson Orchards launched its namesake hard cider line. The orchard was (and is still) best known for its nonalcoholic farm stand cider it…
ANXO Time & Place
A limited, canned release from Washington, DC, cider (power)house ANXO, Time & Place is a cider very clear on when and where it came from. The cider is a showcase…
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…
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…
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…
Review: Citizen Cider For Shore Gose-Style
Because apple is incredible amiable, it lends itself to a lot of flavors — some borrowed from the beer world, some from the wine. In For Shore from Vermont’s Citizen…
Review: SARO Cider Ardennes
A joint operation of friends and family, SARO Cider launched in late 2018 as Nebraska’s first cider-only producer. With influences from beer but a devotion to the apple, the wide…