By: Molly Allen
Roses are red and violets are blue, but did you know there’s red-fleshed cider apples out there for you too? While we traditionally think of cider apples in a varying…
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Reviews
Our 10 Top Dry (Cider) January Picks
Well, well, well. We’re halfway through Dry January, which can mean less alcohol to some people and more dry cider to others. We, of course, are talking about the latter:…
Review: Hemly Cider Sloughhouse Jalapeño
The Hemly family has been growing pears outside of Sacramento, California, for nearly 165 years. With six generations of farming experience, the family knows how to work the Bartlett pear,…
Review: Rootstock Ciderworks Legend
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…
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…