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…]
For someone whose years of formal schooling focused on things like the Krebs cycle and the shape of electron shells, little attention was paid to history. A plunge into the fascinating world of cider and orchards, however, has reveled just how closely intertwined the history of America and the history of American cider truly are. … [Read more…]
A new election season seems to be upon us, bringing to this writer’s mind thoughts of laws and legislatures and just how they effect the growing cider industry. Alcohol has been a part of the American story from the very beginning, and an excise tax on it’s domestic production was the first ever imposed by … [Read more…]