This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of being on a panel with Michelle Foik, one of the founders of ERIS Brewery and Cider House as part of Chicago Cider Week. Michelle, and ERIS’ other founder Katy Pizza, had been in the brewery and cidery industries …
This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. We met Ryan and Nicole Monkman of FieldBird Cider a few years ago at CiderCon in Chicago. Even though our chat with them was brief, we instantly felt connected to their winemaker-style approach to the production of their ciders. In 2015, Ryan and Nicole decided to move to Prince …
This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. We met Katie Morgan in 2014, shortly after Right Bee Cider’s launch. Sean (my husband) and I were enjoying their Semi-Dry cider at a local bar in Chicago, and Katie happened to be delivering a keg at the same time. We struck up a conversation, and a cider …
This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. We met Kari Williams, the owner and brand manager of Colorado-based Snow Capped Cider in 2017 at The Pressed Conference in Denver. Last year we also met her husband Ty at the Great Lakes International Cider and Perry Competition (GLINTCAP), where their cidery was awarded several medals, including …
This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. We first discovered Tandem Ciders in 2016 on a spring break trip to Leelanau Peninsula in Western Michigan. Not to be deterred by the spring snow (and the lack of GPS), we found ourselves at Tandem’s quaint farmhouse tasting room, which has an English-pub feel. In the years since, …
This post originally appears on Cider Culture – A publication of Dish LLC. All rights reserved. When talking to Jeremy Hall and Erin Chaparro, the husband-and-wife team who founded Blossom Barn Cidery in 2018, I quickly came to understand how deeply important both family and farming are to the couple. Located on Jeremy’s family farm in Grants Pass, Oregon, Blossom …
As part of our cider maker series, we highlight some of the smaller or more unique US cider makers. We always love highlighting husband and wife teams like us, and just like us, the founders of Tag + Jug Cider Co. – San Fransisco’s only cidery – have a little boy named Cameron too. 🙂 Aaron Bryan and Amy Krahe …
The American Cider Association launched a month-long campaign called “Dry Cider January” to promote ciders containing 0 grams of sugar. Alcohol is created when yeast converts sugar into alcohol through fermentation. A cider that contains no residual sugar has been fermented to absolute dryness. Sometimes cidermakers will blend a completely dry cider with fresh juice for acid/sugar balance, but other …
The American Cider Association launched a month-long campaign called “Dry Cider January” to promote ciders containing 0 grams of sugar. Alcohol is created when yeast converts sugar into alcohol through fermentation. A cider that contains no residual sugar has been fermented to absolute dryness. Sometimes cidermakers will blend a completely dry cider with fresh juice for acid/sugar balance, but other …
Happy Holidays! One of the things we always look forward to in the cold Chicago winters is the annual return of Cider Summit Chicago. The 8th Annual Cider Summit Chicago is scheduled for Saturday, February 22, 2019, in two sessions – Session 1 is 12 – 3 pm (VIP admission at 11 am) and Session 2 is 5 -8 pm …