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Dressler Estate

Q&A with Olga and Brian Dressler of Dressler Estate

By Emily Kovach / March 19, 2019 /

A lot can happen in two years of running a cider startup. There’s hard work, and plenty of it, learning curves, successes, mistakes … like any adventure in small business, the only real constant is change. With that in mind, we wanted to check in with Olga and Brian Dressler, the co-founders of Dressler Estate,…

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A Few Bad Apples

A Few Bad Apples: From Forgotten Fruit to Sustainable Communities

By Mike Gillen / May 15, 2018 /

For the last 15 years, since well before the current cider renaissance, Mike Sturges has crafted countless varieties of cider in small, often experimental five-gallon batches. He picks the apples and forages other ingredients, like mulberry, knotweed and serviceberry, from places most people never think to look, like old farms and tangles of invasive bushes.…

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Understood in Motion 03

Collabo to Know: Angry Orchard + Tom Oliver Understood in Motion 03

By Emily Kovach / March 29, 2018 /

This recently-announced collaboration seems to sit right at the crossroads of the craft cider industry: new world vs. old world; innovation vs. tradition; mainstream vs. niche. Ryan Burk, head cider maker at Angry Orchard and Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider and Perry, have teamed up to create Understood in Motion 03, a dry, tannic cider with…

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Pure Gold: Liquid Alchemy Beverages

By Emily Kovach / October 27, 2017 /

It’s a little confusing as you follow the Google Maps app to Liquid Alchemy Beverages’ (LAB’s) tasting room. First you’re winding through the city of Wilmington, Delaware, assuming it must be in some up-and-coming hip neighborhood. But soon enough, you’re on the residential outskirts of town, and then the map directs you into a very…

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Bad Seed Cider Brooklyn

The Bad Seed Brooklyn Tap Room is Opening This Week in Crown Heights (Oct. 20)

By Emily Kovach / October 19, 2017 /

The booming neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn is soon to be home to a major craft cider destination: the Bad Seed Brooklyn Tap Room. The grand opening of the first cider tasting room in the borough is slated for this weekend (Oct. 20–22, just in time for Cider Week NYC!), and guests are encouraged…

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graf

What is Graf?

By Samantha Story / October 5, 2017 /

Whoever developed the kegerator was a genius. And Snuggies—why would you not want sleeves on your blanket? The creation of the camera phone changed our society forever. And don’t even get me started on macaroni and cheese. All this to say: great things are born when two items come together to make one. With so…

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German Apfelwein Bembel-With-Care Makes East Coast Debut

By Ronald Sansone / June 8, 2017 /

One of Germany’s best-known ciders, Bembel-With-Care, will bring its authentic, 100% apple cider to the United States for the first time, debuting in Philadelphia on June 14 and Boston on June 15, followed by New York City on June 16. Known in Germany as apfelwein, the popular gluten-free product is crisp, refreshing, perfect for summertime sipping and…

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Local Libations Makers to Pour Samples at the 2017 Philly Farm & Food Fest

By Kerry McKenzie / March 22, 2017 /

There are plenty of reasons to get yourself to the Philly Farm and Food Fest (PF3), taking place on April 8 at the Philadelphia Convention Center (see a preview on The Town Dish). Here’s one more reason to make a plan to attend: a handful of our favorite local cider makers, brewers and distillers will be pouring…

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