Craft Hard Cider: Recipes, Tips, and Ideas for Making & Enjoying Hard Cider
You’ve got your equipment and you’ve picked a hard cider recipe to follow. You’re ready to make some craft hard cider. Should you press your own apples or just use juice? As with many of life’s questions, the answer is that it depends. Ask yourself the following questions. The more you answer “yes”, the more … Continue reading Hard Cider Tip #1: To Press or Not To Press
Bitter Red Hard Cider By Prickly Apple Cider I have a friend whose family has an organic cranberry bog. Every year, he gives me several pounds of cranberries. My wife bakes with them as well as uses them for our Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. Naturally, I make hard cider with them. Cranberries are tart and astringent: … Continue reading Making Bitter Red Hard Cider
I was told you should do something nice for your spouse after 25 years of marriage. I took mine on a hard cider tour in Somerset, England! Well, maybe I took her to a Valentines Day High Tea at Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey) and she took me on a West Country Cider Tour. Either … Continue reading West Country Cider Tour
Pink Paradise Hard Cider by Prickly Apple Cider Homemade sourdough pizza with a pesto sauce, roasted artichokes and poblano peppers with feta and parmesan cheese: it was superb. We picked the artichokes at a local farm and the sourdough is from my wild starter. I love those sourdough breadsticks so much I included the recipe … Continue reading Making Pink Paradise Hard Cider
Have you ever taken a hard cider tour? Maybe you are envisioning a walk through the orchard on a fall day before stopping at the barn to buy some apples and a few bottles of hard cider made from a hard cider recipe handed down from 6-7 generations. That would be awesome but it isn’t … Continue reading Phoenix Hard Cider Tour
I live in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains. I find a lot of inspiration in them. Every time I look up, they are different. One of my favorite times is when it rains and the mountains become misty and cloud covered. You see hills and peaks sticking out like islands. Misty Mountains: Hard Cider … Continue reading Making Misty Mountain Hard Cider
A Feast at Feast! https://spark.adobe.com/page-embed.js (Click the above link to launch the slideshow) Dinner at Feast is always great but add a 2016 Cidre Bouché Brut from Etienne Dupont and you take it to a new level. Click on the above link to check out all the details. Find more food pairings, hard cider recipes, … Continue reading Hard Cider and Seafood!
A Book on Making and Enjoying Cider I’ve always been a hands-on person with a passion for creating things. That passion has manifested itself in hard cider, not apple juice, but the fermented drink of our forefathers. My passion for hard cider is so strong, I’ve started planning vacations around sampling ciders. I also enjoying … Continue reading The Art & Science of Cider
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