The season of holidays is upon us with dining and drinking and general merriment. I’m always looking for something new and a little festive that I can serve to my rotating crowd of guests, and this year I’m getting some help from Abe Goldman-Armstrong at Portland’s Cider Riot®. Abe is a fascinating combination of serious … [Read more…]
Holidays by the sea have been a staple of British life since George III made Weymouth his summer holiday residence in 1789. Some two hundred years later scores of vacationers would load the kids in the car and head south to the beaches of Devonshire on the A38, so many that eventually traffic would slow … [Read more…]
The big breweries of the world have jumped on the cider bandwagon in an effort to bolster their bottom lines as sales of their flagship products flatten. With their mighty ad dollars and distribution muscle they’ve been a significant force in driving the cider category’s astonishing growth and created myriad opportunities for hundreds of small, … [Read more…]