Cider Chat

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Find a free downloadable Cider Log for your next ferment below! Dan Gallagher of Frosty Twig Cider, a new startup based in Canton New York, has created a form for your next batch of cider. Dan who began making cider in 2017 found online cider making forums and cider influencer tips both informative, but also conflicting. The Cider Log was created to track what actually does or doesn't work when fermenting.

• Dan's backstory
• The value of a Cider Log
• His goal for Frosty Twig Cider to begin commerical sales
• A step by step review of each stage of a cider ferment
  • From sourcing fruit to bottling
• Working with Canton Apples

Follow along as we review this filled in Cider Log below with Dan.

• Instagram @frostytwigcider

Download this Cider Log for your next ferment. By going to https://ciderchat.com/podcast/407-cider-log/

• French Cider Tour 2024
• A mentioned by Dan in this episode The Building a Cidery Series Part 1-7
  • 255: Trademark Law | Building a Cidery Part 1
  • 256 Securing a Trademark | Building a Cidery Part 2
  • 257: Courthouse Creek Garagistes | Building a Cidery Part 3
  • 258: Ragged Hill Design | Building a Cidery Part 4
  • 259: Artifact Cityscape | Building a Cidery Part 5
  • 260: Eris Brewery and Cider House | Building a Cidery Part 6
  • 261: Yonder & The Source | Building a Cidery Part 7
  • 262: Virtual Cidery | Building a Cidery Part 8
• #XPromoteCider – Cross Promote Cider and get mentioned on Cider Chat. Download the info flyer, post in your tasting room or favorite bulletin board and load up to Social Media. Make sure to tag Cider Chat (@ciderchat or @ciderchatciderville)

Lee Reeve of InCiderJapan kicks off this episode stating "Japan is Apple Country." And he is right… because Lee has been on the podcast 3x's and has taught listeners all about this apple country and the regions were orchards are abundant that the growing cider community.

He is the Publisher and Editor of inCiderJapan, the country's first and only bilingual magazine dedicated to all things cider. He was first on the podcast in Episode 114 and again in Episode 173. Each time we were able to catch up on the happenings in Japan. By the way, there are two main apple growing regions: Aomori to Nagano.

• Cider in Japan post the pandemic and updates for Lee as his role evolves
• The state of cider today
• Japanese culture and cider education
• Rules around making cider in Japan
• The Japan Cider Cup
• OK Adam Cider a Japanese cider brand

• Website: https://www.inciderjapan.com/
• Japan Cider Cup – https://www.japancidercup.com/

• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• French Cider Tour 2024 – September 22th – 28th Paris, Normandy, Brittany
• Greenbank Cider, Washington State
• #xpromotecider – Share the Cider Chat Podcast Info Flyer and help your patrons and friends find over 400 episodes on makers, orchards and cider travel. This week's mentions:
  • Follow our friend Marcel who is making cider in the Netherlands on Instragram @degerdenner
  • Wooden Gate Cider – Pilot Mound, Manitoba
  • Heartland Ciderworks Find these ciders on tap at La Familla Cider and definitely try the tacos at Azuls Taco House

Revel Cider was founded in 2014 and is located in Ontario a little over one hour west of Niagara Falls. Hear Tariq tell how he both got into fermentation, how Revel embraces foraging local resources for ferments, surviving the pandemic and how to get his cider!

• Visiting the newly opened Tasting Room
• Co-Ferments
• Native Yeasts
• Carbonic Maceration

• Website: https://revelcider.com/
• Address for Tasting Room: 62 Dawson Rd, Guelph, ON N1H 1A8, Canada

• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• French Cider Tour 2024 – September 22th – 28th Paris, Normandy, Brittany
• #xpromotecider – Share the Cider Chat Podcast Info Flyer and help your patrons and friends find over 400 episodes on makers, orchards and cider travel.
• Follow our friend Marcel who is making cider in the Netherlands on Instragram @degerdenner
• Episode 306 with Elegast Cider, Netherlands
• Episode 398 with GreenBench Mead and Cider | Saint Petersburg, Florida
• Episode 404 with Albert Johnson of Ross Cider and Perry Co. | UK

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Ross Cider and Perry is a family owned business located in the West Country of the United Kingdom in the region of Heredfordshire. The Johnson family have been farming this land now with 45 acres of bush orchards and another 10 acres of standard trees and perry pears. The apple trees were planted between 1978 and 2001. And the Perry Pears about 35 years ago by Albert's father Mike.

Pictured above: Cider Chat Host Ria, Mike and Albert Johnson - at Ross Cider Fest 2019

Today you can visit the newly remodeled Yew Tree Inn which is situated next to the orchards and all under the Ross Cider ownership. At the pub find 18 taps. They make a wide range of single varietal ciders (upwards to 90) and blends. One will always be guaranteed to be amazed by the offerings when visiting.

• Catching up since the first interview in 2019 with Mike and Albert – listen to Episode 194
• Cider Making Practices
• The orchards
• Events
  • Ciderganza A spring cider festival at The Yew Tree Inn
  • Blossom Walk A charity fundraising blossom walk around the Broome Farm orchards
  • Summertime Soirée A weekend drinks festival at The Yew Tree Inn
  • Cider Challenge A charity cider competition and festival at The Yew Tree Inn
  • Ross Cider Festival A summer cider festival at Broome Farm
  • Ross-tober-fest An Octoberfest event held at The Yew Tree Inn

• Website: https://rosscider.com/
• For general and cider enquiries: [email protected]
• For Yew Tree Inn related enquiries: [email protected]
• For Yew Tree adult only caravan & motorhome enquiries: [email protected]
• For Broome Farm family friendly & group camping enquiries:[email protected]
• Telephone: 01989 562 815
• Address: The Yew Tree Inn,
  • Peterstow, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, HR9 6JZ

• Kordick Family Farm – Listen to Episode 369 featuring the Kordick Family
• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• French Cider Tour 2024

Botanist and Barrel is a family owned and operated cidery. Kether Smith and brother Lyndon and their respective spouses Derick McGuffey and Amie Fields make the magic happen at this eclectic cidery. They began selling cider commercially in 2017 and they all enjoy making cider.

There are two tasting rooms. Production happens at the Cedar Grove Location and in Asheville you can visit the Botanist and Barrel Tasting Room.

Lyndon and Amie were interviewed while attending CiderCon 2024 in Portland Oregon. They provide tips on how to approach their products when visiting the tasting room.

• Try a flight. There are four flight options.
  • Sour and Spice Flight
  • Barrel aged
  • Any thing goes
  • Hybrids and co-ferments
• The ciders and co-ferments of Botanist and Barrel
• Tips for working with family members
• Visiting the tasting rooms

• Ashville Tasting Room
  • Website: https://www.botanistandbarrelasheville.com/
  • Address: 32 Broadway Street, Ste 110, Ashville North Carolina
  • Telephone: (828) 338-9516
• Cedar Grove Tasting Room
  • Website: https://www.botanistandbarrelasheville.com/
  • Address: 105 Persimmon Hill Lane, Cedar Grove, NC 27231

• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• French Cider Tour 2024
• Episode 288 Space Time Mead and Cider Works | Pennsylvania
• @degerdenner in the Netherlands
• Cider Summit

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Molly and Dion Stepanski are the founders of of PIF Cider with an inviting Tasting Room located in Alpena, Michigan. They met in New Orleans where Dion was working as a Jazz muscian and Molly in a store. In 2014 they move to farm vegetables at Dion's family farm in Posen, MI. There they planted a one acre orchard which Dion describes as high density, but not trellised. They sources their apples from Michigan's TraverseCity area which is to the west of Alpena.

From the outset they wanted to make English Style Ciders and by all accounts they are hitting this target straight out producing delectable ciders that please the palate and made this cider podcast host swoon with delight.

• The backstory of PIF and the Stepanski's journey to cider
• Cider making techniques at PIF
  • Native yeas
  • Barrel program
  • Blends and Single varietal
• The cider fans of Presque Island and the surrounding area.
  • What can guests expect when visiting.
• How to get PIF products!

• 2022 Farmhouse 8.2%
  • Kingston Black
  • Bulmers Norman
  • Brown Snout
  • Northern Spy
  • Label by their son
• Kingston Black and Bulmers 50/50
  • Made in Stainless
• Single Varietal Spitzenberg 2021 12.5%
  • Aged for 2 years in Bourbon Barrel
• Clean Ciders meaning pitched yeast
  • Golden Russet, Harrison blend 9% semi dry
  • Bulmers Norman and Coxs Orange Pippin
  • Farmhouse back sweeten with French Bittersweet concentrate
    • This is in a can and is a slight variation from the 750 ml bottles

• Website: https://pifcider.com/
• PIF Tasting Room address:
  • 205 W. Chisholm St. Alpena, Michigan
• Taproom Telephone: tele: 01-989.340.0970
• Instagram: @pifcider

• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• French Cider Tour 2024
• Étienne Dupont – listen to Episode 337

Chef Brian Duffy is one of the culinary's industry's most dynamic and innovative personalities.

With a career that spans decades, He has been captivating audiences with his infectious passion for food and his unique approach to the culinary arts. He is well known for his appearances on the tv and the series "Bar Rescue," where Chef Duffy helped transform struggling bars, offering expert advice and renovations to revitalize their business and create successful, thriving establishments.

In this episode of Cider Chat we are tapping into Chef's contemplative side and getting his thoughts on the both cooking with cider and pairing cider with food.

• Sweet
  • Coyote Verde 4.25% Back Sweetened Tart Granny Smith Apple
    • Producer Fishback Stephenson Cider House | Iowa
• Semi Dry
  • Grapes in a Suit Case
    • Producers Botanist and Barrel / North Carolina and Artifact Cider Project / Massachsetts
• Semi -Dry
  • Premium Hard Cider (6.9%) all native years, no sulfites, barrel aged
    • Producer: WildCraft Cider Works / Eugene Oregon
• Dry
  • Malus (7.5%) juice is from apples pressed in New York and shipped to Florida
    • Producer: Green Bench Brewery and Mead & Cider / Saint Petersburg Florida

• What is Chef Brian Duffy up to.
• Cooking with cider
• Pairing cider with food
• Let's talk PH when pairing cider – Most bars serve high acid pub food/dishes with drinks. For those who want to balance acid and alkaline offerings, what are the options? Looking for pub/restaurant dishes that you would recommend.
• 3 tips for a success restaurant or cidery serving food
• Typical mistakes to avoid when serving food

• Website: ChefBrianDuffy.com
• Instagram: @chefbriduff
• Duffied Live podcast

• French Cider Tour September 24 – 28, 2024
• Bar & Restaurant Expo March 18th -20th, 2024 use code ChefDuffy50 for $50 off you pass
• Episode 035: Danielle von Scheiner | Big Apple Hard Cider, NYC

This episode is a special valentine to Ciderville with a little bit of help from the Talking Pommes and an eventful appearance by The Nose!

We are in the Cider House reviewing the last year and have written a special card to everyone out there in your special spot in Ciderville.

In this episode we say good bye to Season 8 while reviewing the uniques of cider, what we all need to do to keep relationships in Ciderville healthy, and how to help keep cider going up a.k.a #ciderGoingUP.

• Find all past episode from Season 8 of Cider Chat
• @cidersoms - follow along on Instagram
• Work with Cider Chat
• French Cider Tour September 24 - 28, 2024
• Send Cider to Cider Chat
• Support Cider Chat
• Cider Chat Swag Store - get your cider t-shirt today!

In Strängnäs Sweden, circa 2017, Johan Sjöstedt, Oskar Palm, and Patrik Svensk began selling ciders commercially under their brand Pomologik. They didn't set out to make low alcohol cider nor even non alcoholic cider when they started, but a lot can change in a few short years.

• John Sjöstedt's journery to cider
• How a US cider bar encouraged Swedish cider makers
• How a cider purist can shift perspective
• Low alcohol by volume (ABV) ciders and Non Alcohol Ciders in Sweden
• Cider techniques
• Cider Styles
• Cider Fests in Sweden – Nordic Craft Cider Festival
• Who are Sweden's cider fans
• Who can visit Pomologik…for now.

• Website: https://www.pomologik.se/

• New York International Cider Competition 2024
• 2024 French Cider Tour to Paris, Normandy and Brittany – Reservations are live now and there are only 4 spots left
• Amsterdam Cider Salon, Netherlands March 8, 2024 (7-10 pm)
• Non alcoholic cider in US – follow Jonathan Mark on instagram for more info

Green Bench can boast being a microbrewery, meadery, and cidery in a region where palm trees rule! Despite that small inconvenience of no apples trees to speak of growing in Florida, maker Brian Wing has been rolling out the cider barrels since 2015. Green Bench itself has been producing select beers beginning in 2013.

• Fermenting in Florida. Where is the production facility located. (Webb's City Cellar?)
• How did this all come about? Brewing begins in 2013 then 6 yrs later (2019) cider & mead.
• Brian's journey to cider
• What are the challenges of cider making in FL (resourcing from…NY…)
• Who are the cider fans in St. Peterburg and the surrounding area. Has this changed since you opened and if so, how.
• Training of staff to pour and discuss cider – loved how you were planning for this on the tour
• What can guest expect when visiting.
  • Is there a flagship cider that one should try first?
  • Malus is the Flagship cider – try this one first!
• Cider styles and techniques
  • Fermenting with fruits from Florida for co-ferments
  • Florida honey ferments
• Filtering using a centrifuge
• Barrel program

• Chaconne
  • A dry cider made by Green Bench Brewing Company. It's made with Wickson Crab, Yates, and Harrison apples, and has an ABV of 6.4%

• Website
  • https://www.greenbenchbrewing.com/mead-cider

• French Cider Tour 2024 – September 22nd – 28th