Nottingham Has Fallen?
Nottingham is widely regarded as one of the best yeasts for English-style cider out there. Can a wild yeast take its place?
Read moreNottingham is widely regarded as one of the best yeasts for English-style cider out there. Can a wild yeast take its place?
Read moreI am a fan of cider, and I like my ciders dry. A challenge in making dry cider is achieving
Read moreLast fall I made a very short trip down the highway to a local cidery, where I picked up 20
Read moreLast fall I brewed a batch of cyser – a cider-mead hybrid. This was a very basic mead: I took
Read moreLast year I brewed up two batches of cider – a traditional dry cider, and a cyser (mead-cider hybrid). The
Read moreIt is late October, and while we’re suffering through a record heat-wave (after an uncharacteristically cold and wet summer), the
Read moreEvery year I brew a few batches of cider, using cider pressed at a local cider mill. 2016 was no
Read moreI know a lot of us bloggers have a tendency to highlight our successes and minimize our failures. Looking at
Read moreI’ve somewhat fallen down on the blogger job – I’d done three brews in the past week and not one
Read moreA third of this years cider haul Its early October, the evenings are starting to get cool, and the leaves
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