Cider Style
Jack’s Hard Cider Launches Rosé Cider
The rosé cider train has left the station and it’s still going at full steam! This summer, more than ever before, we’ve seen new and exciting kinds of this fun, crushable category of cider on shelves. One of the newest rosé ciders to join the fam is Jack’s Hard Cider‘s Rosé. Semi-dry cider and bursting…
Read MoreLearn About Pét-Nat Ciders with Botanist & Barrel
Pét-nat: What is it and why is it popping up on bottles of wine and cider everywhere? Besides from being a fun phrase to say, it’s really a description of a method that can create carbonation in alcoholic beverages without the addition of extra yeast and sugar. For wine or cider to be bubbly, most…
Read MoreA Q&A with ‘Odd Apples’ Photographer William Michael Mullan
Without apples, there is no cider. That said, it’s too easy sometimes to crush a can of your favorite summer cider without really even thinking about the fruit that it took to produce it. If and when you do stop to consider the apple, what comes to mind? While your knowledge might go beyond that…
Read MoreCider Loves Food: CSA Veggies Pairings
In our monthly column, “Cider Loves Food,” contributor Meredith Collins (blogger extraordinaire at Along Came a Cider) is looking at different cuisines and finding the perfect ciders to help take your meals to the next level. It’s summer: the season of grilling, picnics and lakeside barbeques! Where I live, it’s also the season when a…
Read More8 Ciders Perfect for Summer Nights
Hot days, chill nights: Summer is cider season, through and through. After a day of adventuring (or doing nothing at all), there’s nothing quite like cracking open a cold cider to help restore your energy. For times like these, we turn to craft cider’s spritzy, fun side — we love serious ciders, too, but when…
Read MoreWhat’s the Best Part of PA Cider Fest? 3 Cider Makers Weigh In
You might already be planning your trip to this year’s PA Cider Fest. It’s scheduled for Saturday, June 22, from noon to 4 p.m. at Jack’s Hard Cider, just outside of Gettysburg, PA. The Fest is honestly one of the best times we have all year, seeing old friends, making new ones, and enjoying being…
Read MoreWoodchuck Partners with Appalachian Trail Conservancy to Raise Money for Open Areas
More and more these days, businesses are stepping up to the plate to help do their part to tackle the issues facing our society and our planet. Craft cider makers are among these conscientious companies, often throwing their weight behind initiatives and nonprofits, and giving back to the community in ways, big and small, like…
Read MoreCider + Food Pairings are Made Easy with Angry Orchard’s New App
We have been touting the pleasures of pairing cider and food pretty much ever since our publication began. Of course, cider and cheese are a brilliant match, but we’ve taken it way further, offering you recipes and all kinds of pairing suggestions, from tacos to sushi to CSA veggies. And while pairing food and cider…
Read MoreStart Planning for the 2019 PA Cider Fest (June 22)
Back again for its fourth year, and one of the best annual cider events on the East Coast: It’s the PA Cider Fest! Slated this year for Saturday, June 22, from noon to 4 p.m., this wildly crowd-pleasing event will offer over 65 varieties of cider from over 25 producers from PA, including Hale &…
Read MoreRedfield Cider Launches Cider Club
Since opening in January 2019 in Oakland, California, Redfield Cider has been bringing amazing cider to the beverage-curious in the form of a bar, bottle shop and podcast. The passion for craft cider that owners Olivia Maki and Mike Reis make cannot be contained, and they mean to share even more amazingness via Redfield’s new…
Read MoreWoodchuck Hard Cider Releases Next in its 802 Collection, Kinda Cloudy
Woodchuck has just released the second in its 802 Cider Collection, an ongoing orchard-to-glass series the company launched in late 2018. The series is a love letter to Vermont (802 is the state’s area code). This new cider is called Kinda Cloudy, an unfiltered, semi-sweet variety, with a medium-bodied mouthfeel and notes of refreshing apple,…
Read MoreCider Loves Food: Tacos and Mexican-Food Pairings
In our monthly column, “Cider Loves Food,” contributor Meredith Collins (blogger extraordinaire at Along Came a Cider) is looking at different cuisines and finding the perfect ciders to help take your meals to the next level. The season is finally warming up, and for a lot of us in the United States, spring is sprinting…
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