Some carefully chosen bottles for Thanksgiving
Some carefully chosen bottles for Thanksgiving By Frank Whitman If you’ve been dreaming about food lately, it’s probably because Thanksgiving is just around the corner. …
Posts tagged Hard Cider
From The Norwalk Hour: Hard Cider Deserves Equal Billing
Wine, beer, and cider are three drink options which deserve equal billing across the board. I’m not worried about wine and beer. They’re well established …
From The Norwalk Hour: Apple Cider Season
Dan Beardsley’s eyes lit up as he told me about his orchards at the Beardsley Cider Mill in Shelton, land that has been farmed by …
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 …
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 …
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 …