The cider award season is in full swing. Results are in from the California and Mendocino Cider Competitions while entries are flooding in for the 2017 Australian Cider Awards
Somebody decided to put on a little cider festival in my neighbourhood. You silly people. Anyway, when I arrived early it was pretty quiet so I saddled up next to the Batlow stand mostly because they have a keg of the Batlow Saison Cider. Happy days. Read More
Got problems with bower birds? Curly hair getting you down? Dr Pilkington’s Miracle Cider Is here to help. The real question here is this a good cider or is Dr Pilkington just snake oil? Read More
A year or so ago I had the Bilpin Archibald cider. It was pretty dry but it did have a little back sweetening. Now the guys at Bilpin Cider co have released a version with out the back sweetening fresh juice and it’s bottle conditioned. I have high hopes for this the Archibald Extra Brut Cider.
McCarthy’s Orchard is in the world renowned wine region of McLaren Vale in South Australia. It’s not what you would call a typical apple growing region. Yet where there are apples, cider follows.
One of the most overlooked areas of cider making seems like such an obvious one. Getting the juice out of the apple requires a large investment in expensive equipment. For this reason, many of the smaller craft cider makers have chosen to outsource this step in production to Summer Snow Juice.
A cider with an odd name is always going to grab my attention. So when I was I given the chance to try a bottle of Henry of Harcourt’s Duck and Bull, I was paying attention. Read More