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Cider Travels: Drinking Cider in Chicago

By Malaika Tyson / March 4, 2021 /

Malaika Tyson is one half of the blogging duo Cider Soms, which was started as a way to introduce wine-lovers to the world of cider. Created along with her husband Sean, the “Soms” blog seeks to uncover and explain the complexities of ciders in a fun way. The Chicago metropolitan area, also known as Chicagoland…

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‘American Cider,’ a Must-Read for Cider Fans

By Emily Kovach / February 26, 2021 /

For cider fans who want to keep up their self-education — or, if that sounds too formal, just learn cool stuff about the beverage they love — there is an unfortunate limit to what’s out there. That’s not to say that there aren’t awesome cider books, websites, seminars, certifications and so on. It’s just that,…

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Taste the Rainbow: How Cidermakers Create New Cider Flavors

By Emily Kovach / February 25, 2021 /

Perhaps you’ve noticed — it’s been practically impossible to miss — the veritable explosion of flavored ciders over the past few years. Of course, other fruits have always made their ways into craft cider, usually familiar farm crops, like cherries and berries. But cidermakers’ collective creativity keeps pushing boundaries, uncovering new sensory experiences for cider…

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2021 Craft Cider trends

Our 2021 Craft Cider Trend Forecast

By Emily Kovach / December 29, 2020 /

As we approach the close of another year — a year unlike any other, in fact — we look to 2021 full of hope. It seems a little tricky to talk about predictions for the cider industry when 2020 was so epically unpredictable. But we can’t help but cook up some theories about what the…

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Gift it Up: The 2020 Cider Culture Gift Guide

By Emily Kovach / December 11, 2020 /

Gift-giving season is upon us! If you are an adult human, you probably have to get a bunch of gifts for friends and family, and sometimes that can feel overwhelming. It’s kind of a bummer, isn’t it? The act of giving a gift should make both parties feel “warm and fuzzy,” but the endeavor of…

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Right Bee Cider

Cidermaker Q & A: Right Bee Cider

By Malaika Tyson / September 14, 2020 /

Malaika Tyson is one half of the blogging duo Cider Soms, which was started as a way to introduce wine-lovers to the world of cider. Created along with her husband Sean, the “Soms” blog seeks to uncover and explain the complexities of ciders in a fun way. We met Katie Morgan in 2014, shortly after…

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CIDER ON FILM

The Fusion of Two Passions: Photographer Jay Revelle’s CIDER ON FILM

By Emily Kovach / September 10, 2020 /

When your Instagram feed is as cider-focused as our is, during a typical scroll-through, you’ll see a lot of cider: pretty cider bottles on a table, cider in the wild (you know, those shots of cider cans on a kayak or on top of a mountain), cider in production, cider in the orchard … you…

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Celebrate Women’s History Month with Craft Cider

By Emily Kovach / March 11, 2020 /

March is Women’s History Month, an excellent 31 days in which media attention turns intentionally to cover the literally infinite ways women have contributed to every aspect of our society and our world. While in some ways, it would be pretty cool if special months like Black History Month and Women’s History Month were more…

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7 Natural Winemakers Who Also Make Cider

By Emily Kovach / February 6, 2020 /

Over the past few years, natural wine has been having a big moment in the US. We’re hesitant to call it a “trend,” which seems to imply that at some point it will fall out of fashion (we’re not big fans of people referring to craft cider as a trend, either). But it cannot be…

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Northeastern Cider Conference

Save the Date for the Northeastern Cider Conference (March 23–25)

By Emily Kovach / January 3, 2020 /

A brand new conference is coming to New York State: The Northeastern Cider Conference. It will be held from March 23 to 25, 2021 in Albany, New York, and will bring together producers and cider makers from across the region for a series of workshops and the chance to build networks and share knowledge. The…

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Odd Apples

A Q&A with ‘Odd Apples’ Photographer William Michael Mullan

By Emily Kovach / November 23, 2019 /

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…

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The Northern Spy

Cider Travels: The Northern Spy Restaurant & Bottle Shop in Durham, NC

By Emily Kovach / November 5, 2019 /

There are so many reasons to travel: to experience new people and places, of course; to get out of your comfort zone and daily patterns; to commune with nature or immerse yourself in a totally different culture from the one you’re accustomed to. If you are a craft cider fan, you’ve got even more incentive…

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