Hard Cider Update – At Last, Time to Taste
At last, the time has come to taste the hard cider that has been fermenting and aging since last November. You may recall half was …
Posts in category Making Hard Cider
From The Hour: Hard Cider – Bottled at Last
Back in November, at the tail end of Fall, before anyone contemplated the possibility of a killer winter, we went to Beardsley’s Cider Mill in …
Hard Cider Update: Second Racking
Just before Christmas I did the second racking – moving the cider off its sediment. Fermentation has slowed to a barely perceptible bubbling. The cider …
Hard Cider Update – First Racking
HARD CIDER UPDATE. The cider is merrily fermenting away, carbon dioxide bubbling up through the airlock like an old time coffee percolator, making a delightful …
From The Hour: Cider Making – A New England Tradition
I’m making hard apple cider from scratch. This is my first attempt at fermentation, but how tough could it be? Hard cider was made at …