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Julian Temperley’s Orchards
From The Telegraph’s Rose Prince comes an article on Steve’s colleague (and friend) Julian Temperley. Excerpts below, or check out the full article, which includes a nod to Temperley’s fashion-designer daughter, Alice. While waiting for the second coming, we make do with celebrity chefs as saviours. Not that they are doing a bad job. Hugh [...]
Talking Dooryard Cider with Chris…
Serious Eats/The Cider Press’ cider man, Chris Lehault, was at a recent meeting at Jimmy’s 43 to plan the first NYC Cider Week, a celebration of all things cider and apple-y this fall during the week of October 10. I updated Chris on some of the new things going on at the orchard, and he [...]
Carry Your Dinner NYC with Farnum Hill Ciders
This weekend Farnum Hill Ciders will be featured at one of our most unusual events to date, at a futuristic take-away dinner as part of the Festival of Ideas For The New City, a celebration of what New York may look like many years from now. On Saturday, we’ll be part of a wonderfully weird [...]
Spring notes from Steve
From Steve’s “about to leave, going to talk apples in Virginia” note…. Spring is springing here, and we’re relieved. We’ve finally had a normal winter and early spring – no terrifying hot spells, especially in March. The trees are waking up at a gentle pace now, but will get pretty excited over the next few [...]
Cider News Roundup…It’s Spring!
Hope springs eternal! The resurgence of the cider category (and news thereof….) means we are all hoping that cider is going to be a fact of American imbibing. The charming Chris Lehault (I just met him last month at famed beer geek mecca, NYC’s Blind Tiger) of Serious Eats/Serious Drinks/The Cider Press, shines a spotlight [...]
Eating the Rind: Farnum Hill Chutney
From our outpost in Boston, Jess C experiments with some pairings, and a fabulous recipe. From her blog, Eating the Rind: I recently had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic event on behalf of my company, Farnum Hill Ciders. It was an evening of cider and delicious pairings like fried olives, duck pastrami, smoked salmon [...]
Cider…the (manly?) libation of our forebears
We’ve known for a while that apples grow well in various climates throughout this country. A recent article by Mike Gruss of the Virginian-Pilot highlights legislation to support the work of orchardists and cider makers who enjoy a kinder, gentler climate than we do. Kudos to our colleagues at Foggy Ridge Ciders and Albemarle CiderWorks, [...]
Cider News Roundup…mid Feb edition
Greetings all from Poverty Lane and Farnum Hill! We have been quite busy traveling, shoveling snow, and launching our Dooryard cider on draft in New York, Boston and the beloved New Hampshire home market. But happily, we find that cider is again made the news, so here’s a quick sampling of what we’ve found recently. [...]
Idaho Ciders and the Right Fruit
From Idaho, writer Guy Hand makes the case for American ciders. His article appeared recently in Boise Weekly: After all, we’re not tasting beer or wine here. It’s bright, slightly sweet, but far from cloying, and as Oates says, makes a U-turn on the tongue toward a kind of fruity astringency. I don’t know much [...]
Fruit to Glass, Making Real Cider
From cider fan and Serious Eats writer Chris Lehault comes another instructive article about cider. He’s totally right – true cider starts in the orchard. From the ciderriffic Mr. Lehault: Developing a delicious hard cider is no easy feat. From farmer to scientist to master blender, aspiring cidermakers take on a variety of roles through [...]
