Aaron Burr Cider

American Cider Zeitgeist

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There’s been talk lately about an “identity crisis” happening in the cider industry. Having recently spent the better part of a week with some thousand enthusiastic cider makers and drinkers, it isn’t really clear just what the fuss is about, but perhaps the perception of anxiety is related to American cider’s multiple personality complex. Is … [Read more…]

Where the Wild Things Are

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We simultaneously long for and fear wild things. Wildness is freedom; it is the world revealed as beholden only to itself, indifferent to us and our need to be the center. We sense, subliminally, that the uncontrolled gives rise to the possibility of unexpected creation in a way that the controlled does not while recognizing … [Read more…]