Reported trend: a handful of New York apple growers are starting hard cider operations to supplement their fresh apple business. That's not too far from what Harvest Spirits has been up to. [Syracuse Post-Standard]
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Slyboro from Granville makes a bunch of great hard ciders.
... said Ryan on Sep 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM | link
That's great news. Prohibition effectively destroyed hundreds of "heirloom" varieties of apples in the US. Many households and farms had orchards dedicated to cider production, but cider apples don't usually make good eating apples, so once that market was outlawed those orchards were converted to other uses. You can't reliably grow an apple strain from seeds, so once the trees are gone, the apple variety is gone.
In short: we have a long history of small-batch cider production, it's nice that that's being revived.
... said B on Sep 23, 2011 at 10:31 AM | link