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[teepeecider]

Great to catch up with Adam Wells at the book signing session of CiderCon. Adam is a great ambassador of cider writing extensively in magazines etc. This is his first book on perry and the first book devoted to perry since the classic Perry Pears 1963 Luckwill & Pollard. And has an entry on TeePee Cider 😊

#perry #book #booksigning #cider #Pear #CiderCon #CiderCon2025 #pickcider

[stochastique-blog]

Tell me what you want ! What you really really want

Regardless of your political preferences and personal opinions, today should be about unity, equality and peace for our great nation as we move forward! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @CiderCreekhardCider Make America Grape Again- Pours a clear bright pink body, with heavy carbonation and a quickly disappearing thin head. The aroma has strong grapes and earthy yeast on the nose. The taste has tart grapes and berries, light spices and earthy yeast for a smooth dry finish. . . . . . #CiderSociety #CiderCreek #NewYork #Cider #Ciders #Cidre #Sidra #Cidergram #Ciderseason #USA #America #inauguration2017 #🇺🇸 #iCider #weekend #TGIF #wheredoyouCider#howdoyouCider #Ciderlover #glutenfree #Ciderbration #pickCider (at Central Park)

[revistamyd]

Chile es el invitado de honor en la CiderCon 2025

La Asociación Americana de Sidra @pickcider designó a #Chile como el país #invitado de honor en la #CiderCon 2025 que se realizará en #febrero próximo en la ciudad de #Chicago, Estados Unidos. Este #reconocimiento destaca la rica tradición sidrera chilena

La Asociación Americana de Sidra designó a Chile como el país invitado de honor en la CiderCon 2025. Es la conferencia más importante para profesionales de la industria sidrera, que tendrá lugar del 7 al 9 de febrero en Chicago, Estados Unidos. Este reconocimiento destaca la rica tradición sidrera chilena, una de las más antiguas y valiosas del hemisferio sur. Este evento reúne a miles de…

[nwbeerguide]

Coinciding with Oregon Cider Week CiderCon returns to Portland January 2024.

image courtesy CiderCon Press Release … (Portland, OR) - The American Cider Association is pleased to announce that CiderCon® 2024 will take place in Portland, Oregon from January 16-19, 2024. The largest cider conference in the world, CiderCon® will bring more than 1000 attendees to the city and surrounding areas for tours, tastings, educational workshops, networking opportunities, a trade show and more. “It’s been eight years since we held CiderCon® here, and we’re thrilled to be back in the City of Roses,” says ACA CEO, Michelle McGrath. “Portlanders drink more cider per capita than any other city, so visiting attendees will feel right at home,” adds McGrath. This year, visiting attendees include Swedish and Norwegian cidermakers who are at the forefront of their own cider renaissance. “There’s a cider revolution going on in the Nordics, so we’re looking forward to sharing their experiences and ciders with attendees.”  The conference coincides with Oregon Cider Week (January 13-21, 2024), a statewide celebration of cider, featuring events for both aficionados and the cider-curious, hosted by the Northwest Cider Association (NWCA). The two trade non-profits have been working with teams on the ground in the state of Oregon and beyond to create several tour options for CiderCon® attendees and media, including overnight adventures that explore both Oregon and Washington cidermaking regions. Together, the two states produce about 70% of the country’s apples, and are home to 165 cideries, making the area ripe for sourcing talent for the educational sessions. A full range of workshop sessions will cover cider production, marketing, sales, branding, sensory evaluation, compliance, business strategy, orcharding and more. The ACA will once again partner with the Cider Institute of North America (CINA) to develop the cider production sessions. “Despite increasing competition in the beverage alcohol space, cider has maintained its status as a mainstay beverage category, with year after year growth in local and regional cider brands across the country,” says McGrath, referring to cider’s growing popularity nationwide. In fact, regional and local cider was up 10.4% for the 52 week period ending on September 9th for chain retail measured by NIQ via 3 Tier Beverages.  The extensive trade show, presented by long standing ACA partner FruitSmart, will feature more than 100 vendors and be held at the Oregon Convention Center, with accommodations and other activities provided at the Hyatt Regency Hotel located just next door. Tickets to CiderCon® are available now and are $435 for ACA members and $725 for the public, when booked by December 4th. After that date, member registration rates rise to $500 and public tickets go to $800. Ticket price includes the opening general session on Thursday morning, access to educational sessions, networking events, the trade show, and lunch on Thursday and Friday. Bulk pricing is available for groups of 5 or more. More information about the wide array of events and educational sessions being offered as well as registration can be found on the CiderCon® website, and follow @cidercon on X or @pickcider on Instagram for the latest news. CiderCon® is an ACA event produced with the generous support of our members and ACA’s premier sponsor, FruitSmart.  from Northwest Beer Guide - News - The Northwest Beer Guide https://bit.ly/48NG6A0

[mywinepal]

Do you like #cider? I have these #BC ciders made from apples, with some adding lavender and lime, or hops! I bought these at @jaksliquor in #Burnaby. Do you have a favorite BC Cider? #BCcider #craftcider #hardcider #ciderlover #drinklocal #applecider #sidra #supportlocal #cidre #cidergram #cidery #local #apple #pickcider #ciderlife #drinkcider #buybclocal #cidertime #winewriter #somm https://www.instagram.com/p/CULpIT0pLr_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[adrianaltine]

Final on the Simple Cider using #boredandbearded sadly it came out alittle flat picture dosent really represent. Using the back sweetening with frozen concentrate made it super sweet and high ABV 8% more like apple wine still very tasty just no fizz. I might give this back sweetening method another try because the final flavor was really good and use a less tolerant yeast to drop ABV to like 3 or 4%. Definently cool experiment #adrianaltinehomebrew #hardcider #cider #craftcider #drinklocal #craftbeer #ciderlover #applecider #beer #pickcider #supportlocal #cidre #sidra #cidergram #cidery #drinkcider #ciderlove #drinklocalcider #realcider #local #drinks #cidertime #homebrewer #homebrewingexperience #homebrew (at Villages of Woodland Springs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaEZcrgJuE/?igshid=u5souwze09p

[reddtabor]

Cider Rite of Spring 2017: Meeting Your (Northwest Cider) Makers

Cider Rite of Spring 2017 included 31 Northwest cidermakers and featured 100 ciders unique ciders. Photo: Sean Connolly

Saturday, March 24, 2017--It’s 8:50 am, and we are unloading scores of cider-filled sixth barrels in preparation for Cider Rite of Spring, which starts in about three hours.  I’m one of about a dozen or so people in the vanguard at the Evergreen, this year’s event location, working on set-up. The mood is purposeful and jovial—it seems most everyone in this tight-knit regional cider industry knows one another—yet there’s also the slight tension that comes from knowing the clock is ticking with lots still to do.

As a Portland-based cider disciple, this will be my third tour of the Northwest’s largest springtime, local-cideries-only cider festival—and I only missed last year’s event because I was out of town.  This time I’m volunteering, because I want a window into an event Sip NW Magazine in 2015 called the Best Northwest Cider Festival swings from planning into execution.

The 2017 fourth annual Cider Rite of Spring, a six-hour affair presented by the Northwest Cider Association and presented by Square Mile Cider, is going to be big. Thirty-one Oregon and Washington cideries will be present and pouring about 100 ciders, plus six additional, limited pours in the upstairs VIP lounge. 

Association Executive Director Emily Ritchie has promoted Cider Rite on Portland’s KATU-2 News, and the Pomme Boots Society, an industry organization for women in the cider industry, has leveraged its marking and outreach panache to spread the word, too. Schilling Cider Company’s Regional Operations Manager and Pomme Boots co-founder Jennie Dorsey at one point informs those working the room that at least 500 tickets have already been sold, with more expected once the doors open.

In addition to General Admission tickets, 2017 Cider Rite of Spring offered a throughout-the-event VIP Lounge experience with exclusive pourings. Photo: Sean Connolly  

Over the next couple of hours from nine to noon, representatives from the Oregon and Washington cideries file into the hall, check in, set up their jockey boxes and pouring stations and unfurl company banners. As the main hall morphs to its event-ready state, it’s hard not to get caught up in energy that radiates from a collective of people and businesses at one of the epicenters of what I call the New American Cider Movement.  Cider, early America’s alcoholic beverage of choice, is seeing a coast-to-coast revival, and the Pacific Northwest is one of the trailblazing regions.

Cider barrels at the Evergreen.  Photo: Sean Connolly

After the kegs are sorted and sent to the cideries’ assigned tables, I spend the couple of hours with a Portland Cider Company colleague cataloging and organizing the bottles and cans that’ll go on sale in the festival’s Cider shop. It’s where I’ll be stationed from noon to 3pm, and we expect sales to be brisk. I get a quick orientation on how to use Square and run transactions. We set up the display table so festivalgoers can get a gander at what’s on sale.

 The lineup—and collective craft invested in the making and marketing of ciders and manifested across 100 cans and bottles of varying shapes, sizes, and styles, is impressive. I cannot resist a picture, but have to suppress the urge to start quaffing cider until my shift is over.

Cider Rite of Spring 2017’s Cider Store offered nearly 100 unique ciders for sale, plenty for all kinds of tastes.

Before the doors open, I manage to get a few quick tastes and brief ‘hellos’ to a couple of cidermakers I’ve met at previous Cider Rites like Kevin Van Reenen of Pear Up Cider and Laura Cherry of Dragon’s Head Cider or that are new to Cider Rite of Spring and are pouring ciders I haven’t yet tasted, like Mike and Nate Thierfelder of Portland-based Woodbox Cider Company and Jeff Bennett, co-creator Tumalo Cider Company in Bend, Oregon. I’m struck by the realization that behind every table is the story of people who not only share my passion for cider, but also have elevated it as makers and the investment of their life’s work.

And then before we know it, it’s time for the doors to open. And apparently a line has formed that stretches around the block.

The line to enter Cider Rite of Spring 2017 at some points stretched around the block. Around 900 people attended the fourth annual cider-tasting event. Photo: NW Cider Association. 

The next few hours are a blur. The hall fills with a hum of festivalgoers and tasters, and stays filled. What starts as a trickle of people visiting the Cider Shop wanting extra drink tickets becomes a steady, undulating stream of customers ranging in age from their early 20s to 70s who want more tickets, or to take one or half a dozen different ciders home.

Early crowd favorites emerge at check-out: Alter Ego’s The Guardian Angel Blueberry Pomegranate; Bauman’s Peach Raspberry; Locust Cider’s Smoked Blueberry; Portland Cider Company’s Sangria; Schilling’s Pineapple Passionfruit;  Seattle Cider Company’s Gin Botanical; Woodbox’s Double Barrel Whiskey Barrel Ice Cider. People’s cider tastes are truly as eclectic as the cross-section of Portlanders who showed up today and the cideries filling glass after tasting glass.

Ciders for Sale at 2017 Cider Rite of Spring. Photo: Sean Connolly

But really, everything we have behind the table’s selling, a good sign. I fill orders and event tote bags briskly, occasionally eye the cheeseburger someone brought earlier as a snack that I don’t have time to munch on.  When time allows I make small talk with the buyers, asking them their favorite pours of the day. Unsurprisingly, favorites broadly run the range of ciders on tap. 

Just before my shift ends, I’m asked to substitute in at the Locust Cider table so their server can take a much-needed break. I’m glad I have my OLCC Server’s Permit so I can legally pour. I recently began working part time as a Brand Ambassador for Portland Cider Company, and enjoy interacting with people that are either new to cider or steeped in the craft. In between steady requests for Locust’s Smoked Blueberry, Chili Pineapple, and Vanilla Bean ciders, I chat briefly with a representative from McMenamin’s, and am surprised to learn that their Edgefield Winery has been producing cider since 1992.

I return to the Cider Store to see—somewhat to my relief—that a new crew is handling the transactions ably and don’t need me. My shift’s over: now it’s time to sample some of the ciders myself.

Cider Rite of Spring 2017 drew a large—and enthusiastic—number of Northwest cider aficionados. Photo: Kolin Leishman, NW Cider Brokers

Midway through the event, and the Evergreen’s hall is still packed. It takes crowd gymnastics make way to the tasting tables. I return to the Woodbox and Tumalo table, taste a Pippin Dry and Prickly Passionfruit , one of three samples each cidery is offering, respectively. Both are excellent, and proof that relative newcomers into the cider industry are arriving not only with great product out right of the gate, but with offerings that’ll sustain the Northwest’s reputation of one of the most diverse, innovative, and successful cider meccas in the country.

As I’m tasting, a man approaches and asks if he can snap a shot of four cider bottles and a 2017 Cider Rite of Spring tasting glass in front of a cedar-framed jockey box. The image is artful and the photographer moves with precision, so I ask what he’s going to do with the picture.

Turns out he is Steven Shomler, a former corporate banker who’s followed his passion and re-emerged as an active writer, radio host, and culinary storyteller. It’s quickly evident that not only has Shomler established a storytelling niche in the New American Cider Movement – as well as the local beer scene and Portland culinary movement – he’s dedicated his life to his love of craft in the same way so many of the cideries and people working at Cider Rite have.

Screenshot from the Portland Beer Podcast’s 3/20/17 feature on Cider Rite of Spring 2017. Photo: Steven Shomler. 

For the last hour of Cider Rite I head to tables stations with cideries that are relatively or completely new to me: Steelhead Cider out of Lake Chelan, Washington, Salem’s 1859 Cider Co., Baird and Dewar in Dayton, Oregon, Eugene, Oregon’s  Elk Horn Brewery,  https://www.redtankcider.com out of Bend, Oregon, who’s Pumpkin Pie cider is spicily delicious.  In the quest for completely new, I reluctantly bypass offerings from ‘more established’ cideries—which in this business remarkably often only means established in the past 4-5 years.

Over and over again as I talk to makers and marketers, the same storyline emerges, albeit with slightly different details. It’s the story of people with a passion for their craft , a sense of place, and a belief in the integrity of Northwest fruit and the creative cider-making process. Of striving and sometimes struggling, sometimes completely reinventing themselves and their carers along their cidermaking journey. And, ultimately, finding deep satisfaction through living life on their own terms and embracing the organic, sometimes messy nature of an industry that embraces the cycle of the seasons. And of course, making something that people love to drink.

 At Cider Rite of Spring, even the good-natured, yet sometimes passionate Portland-Seattle rivalry takes a backseat to showcasing Washington and Oregon cidermakers. Photo: Sean Connolly

As the taps close down at 5:45 and the hall finally begins to clear, I feel a brief sensation of melancholy with the realization that Cider Rite of Spring 2017 is coming to an end. Like spring itself, the event was colorful, bustling, frenetic, and seemed (for me) to come to an end quickly.

 But for the event organizers and volunteers beginning the break-down process, it’s not completely over until the hall is cleared. As I leave the Evergreen the realization hits that what I think is a long day is even longer and harder for others.  It fits, my perception of the cider industry, too: people work hard, make time for fun, but there’s not a lot of time to rest on one’s laurels. Things, and trends, move fast.

Cider Rite of Spring is hosted by the NW Cider Association, a trade organization that connects cider aficionados with cideries and cider makers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. Photo: Sean Connolly 

I recall watching throughout the day as Dorsey, Jana Daisy-Ensign of Finnriver and Gemma Schmit of Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider—also Pomme Boots co-founders and Cider Rite 2017 organizers—and Carolyn Winkler (also with Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider) were seemingly everywhere, coordinating logistics with the cidery representatives and VIPs, greeting event-goers, checking in with and providing volunteers like me affirmation and thanks. Their professionalism, energy—and effort—vastly eclipsed mine. I see Deron Davenport, Sam Rico, and Helen Lewis, Portland Cider Company colleagues that were here this morning even before I arrived and still here as I leave, still working.

It’s an ethos of hard work and energy that makes us cider aficionados who live in the Northwest, the region where dry-hopped cider was invented, very, very lucky. And despite our rainy, cold winter, apple and pear trees are beginning to blossom. Cider Rite of Spring 2017 was a reminder that warmer, brighter days are ahead.  And no matter what your cider preference is, there’s something you tasted today, or tomorrow, that’ll be worth raising a glass.

Sean Connolly is a cider enthusiast who’s much better at writing, talking up, and drinking cider then he is making it. He recently passed Level 1 of the the U.S. Association of Cider Maker’s Certification Program, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Missed Cider Rite of Spring? Never fear, more spring cider festivals are just around the corner! Be sure to check out next month’s Hophouse Ciderfest on April 1, Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider Hopped Cider Fest on April 9, and the Hood River Hard-Pressed Cider Fest on April 22.

[goodbadweather-blog]

[teepeecider]

Teepee Cider is attending CiderCon in Chicago. A fantastic gathering of around 1000 cider makers orchardists and cider lovers predominantly from USA but also around the world, UK Spain France Chile with people of the calibre of Tom Oliver there. #cider #CiderCon #USA #Chicago

[cidersociety-blog]

@cidreruwet Brut-Pours a clear straw colored body, with medium carbonation and thin head. The aroma has apples, acidity and yeast notes on the nose. The taste has sweet apples up front, with acidity, and earthy yeast giving it a balanced and crisp dry finish. 🍎 🇧🇪 🍎 🇧🇪 🍎 #CiderSociety #Cider_Society #CS #CidreRuwet #Belgium #Cidre #Cider #Ciders #Sidra #Cidergram #CidersofInstagram #Cidertime #Ciderlover #craftCider #hardCider #CiderCon #Chicago #pickCider (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btlt_GOFxpM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xfh0npcl63rk

[sociablecider]

‪That's a pile of draft handles! Check out a huge Sociable lineup at @YardHouse all Aug. #MNBeer #CraftBeer #Cider #MNCraftBeer #pickcider ‬ (at Yard House - St. Louis Park)

[snappedbydinjii]

Happy Sunday ! Working on the office! Had a taste for one of our Sponsors @permannsciderco @marymarylamb and it’s sooooo good!! They will be at the Launch Party on October 20th, 7pm-9pm @archwaygallery ! #HardCider #Refreshing #DinjiiSponsor #TotalWine #SpecsLiquor . . . . . #cider #fall #craftcider #applecider #craftbeer #drinklocal #sundayfunday #autumn #beer #ciderlover #apples #applepicking #glutenfree #apple #ciderlife #wine #drinkcider #cidergram #ciders #pickcider #orchard #realcider #drinks #cheers #cidertime #october #delicious #ciderlove #cidery #drinksofinstagram (at Dinjii Eyewear) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo7g1dhnkoU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ft08jxhv2i82

[mywinepal]

More apple #cider from the #sunshinecoast. This is @sundaycider on the western edge of #gibsons. I'm drinking their Sunday Sess. They don't have flights. There are 4 different ciders. You buy what you want, get a glass and sit in their patio area. They can recap bottles so you can take what you didn't finish. The Sess is nice and light. Bright flavours with a hint of hops. #cider #craftcider #hardcider #craftbeer #ciderlover #drinklocal #applecider #supportlocal #cidre #drinks #cidergram #cidery #apple #pickcider #apples #glutenfree #ciderlife #drinkcider #shoplocal #cidertime #vegan https://www.instagram.com/p/CR7DGl4sfCy/?utm_medium=tumblr

[adrianaltine]

Finale notes on Simple Hard Apple Cider Brew using #csbrewing technique. Had good carbonation even after watering down to Final ABV of 10% not sure how I missed the calculation but has a mild dry flavor but still drinkable great aroma. The sweetness level needs to bump up for my taste bud, but for how simple this was I'm looking forward to stepping it up on the technique for more flavor #adrianaltinehomebrew #hardcider #cider #craftcider #drinklocal #craftbeer #ciderlover #applecider #beer #pickcider #supportlocal #cidre #cidergram #cidery #drinkcider #ciderlove #drinklocalcider #realcider #local #drinks #cidertime #alcohol #ciderculture #homebrew (at Villages of Woodland Springs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaDZIpgmN2/?igshid=1soiaunv24ezp

[reddtabor]

A motto worth pursuing