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Westward Ho! Northwest Cider Booming
SBS Imports and the Seattle Beer Collective are pleased to announce the return of Cider Summit NW Festival to Portland, OR. The second annual Portland event will be on Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 11am-7pm at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in the emerging South Waterfront neighborhood near the Portland Aerial Tram. The event is presented by [...]
Toasting Your Neighbor; thanks!
It’s a beautiful, sunny day here at Poverty Lane Orchards, and the cider room is preparing to move our next batch of Farmhouse cider into tanks to fizz. We’ve got our every-other week Growler Day tomorrow, plus events at the Durham Marketplace near UNH and with our Vermont distributor, G Housen, at Higher Ground in [...]
Just like Somerset….who knew?
Last week, we had visitors from a new cidery (yes, that’s the name for a place that makes cider….we don’t always like it either) in Austin, Texas. These guys are starting Austin Eastciders, and aim to recultivate old Southern apple varieties. Saving and growing cider fruit is a subject near and dear to us, and [...]
Snow Saved Apples from Frost, November 2011
Lookin’ trendy in the bins. When the weather service starts predicting overnight lows around 20-25 degrees F, harvest gets crazy. A few hours at around 22 degrees will destroy the cell walls within an apple. Most years, not much of the crop still hangs in the open air when hard-freeze scares begin. But in late [...]
As the Cider World Turns….News Roundup
When we get really busy with harvest and bottling and fermentation and Cider Week events and Dooryard’s launch, our attention sometimes shifts away from things like updating our blog. But we’ve made it through the Thanksgiving push and are catching up on work of all sorts. So, at long last, here’s the Cider News Roundup. [...]
NY Times Tips FH Xtra Dry for Thanksgiving
November 15th: The New York Times’ Eric Asimov recommended two Northeastern ciders, Farnum Hill Extra Dry and West County’s Redfield (Colrain, MA) for Thanksgiving. We are delighted for ourselves and for our pals at West County. http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/what-can-i-drink-at-thanksgiving-besides-wine/
Where’s That Dooryard?
Early November, 2011: Whoof! Faster still, the mad pace of Dooryard outflow toward regional cider drinkers has the FH cider-room team glowing, and grousing, as never before. The first New Jersey Dooryard has rolled into the Garden State, where Hunterdon will roll it out. Plus, dear old SD, XD, KB and even XDS are showing [...]
News Too Much To Fit
Seriously, we all know, the more that goes on the less time there is to write about it. Bulletins below. 1. Farmstand: Unbelievably wet days chained together during much of September, rain coming down like the bars of a cage, particularly during the traditionally apple-mad weekend at the end of the month. But people have [...]
Cider News Roundup, pre-harvest edition
Well, summer is coming to a close at Poverty Lane Orchards. We’ve noticed that as temperatures drop, the cider world comes to life. So before we get even farther behind on our scan of cider news, here’s an update from near and far. (CW) First, a huge congratulations and shout out to the Northwest Cider [...]
Winter Pruning at Poverty Lane Orchards
Welcome to the fields in winter! Thanks to Sawyer Broadley, a talented, helpful and patient video guy. PRUNING at POVERTY LANE ORCHARDS
