Cider Video from England

Definitely one of the better videos on cider out there.  Enjoy!

Forget Diamond White 'cider' concoctions. You can practically taste the orchard in a bottle of real cider. Small Somerset farms like Sheppy's have been making real cider for almost two hundred years. This short film follows the farm through their year's work of pruning, growing, harvesting, fermenting and bottling. The narration is by James Crowden who has been described, quite rightly, as the 'Poet Laureate of Cider'.

 

This stuff tastes terrible.  Smells OK.  I guess if Icould make one positive comment - "Gluten Free"

Central Market (in Shoreline, WA) has a pretty nice selection of cider.  The French

Cidre Bouché was an incredible value.

 

 

 

 What do you think of this for a half liter serving suggestion?  I like it better than a wine bottle!

I have to admit, the guys at Angry Orchards (ahem, I mean Sam Adams Beer) are on to something.  Bitter, Sweet.  Really sweet for the American palate.  I hope they spend a lot on good advertising.

I HOPE THIS REALLY ISN'T WHAT PEOPLE THINK CIDER IS!  EDUCATION IS KEY.

Carry Nation

Crazy zealot that wielded an axe each time she entered a cider bar! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_Nation

My first batch - #81012

Pressed about 200 lbs of early Yellow Transparent apples from gramma's house in Saint Maries, Idaho (these are beautiful old trees) into about 10 gallons of cider.  Pitched Montrachet and EC-1118 yeast and the next day I had the beginnings of my first batch of cider.  In August, no less.  The beginning of what I hope to be a long and successful journey to becoming a cidermaker.  Not just as a hobby, but as my livelihood.  I will take many steps, but these first ones are some of the best!