Asa Hutchinson last month, established a
hard cider manufacturing permit and authorized the state to issue permits for the sale of
hard cider, an alcoholic drink usually made from fermented apples.
Two local Ypsilanti business owners join efforts to create excitement in Ypsilanti by bringing out Michigan's craft cider brewers at the first annual West Cross
Hard Cider Festival.
In Barbara Stark-Nemon's
Hard Cider, a midlife desire to pursue a dream comes to literal fruition -- but not without persistence, resistance, and research.
The annual party - WildCraft's third so far - celebrates the fruit, flowers and herbs that grow so readily on public lands, old homesteads and backyards of Lane County, and the regular folks who drop them off at WildCraft to be turned into juice or
hard cider, an alcoholic beverage.
There are nine varietals for sale, including two styles of Riesling and a
hard cider, and most of the wines are on the drier side."
An old man had a cider press a long time ago, and he showed me how to do it, and we liked to drink
hard cider so....
"We don't have the orchards like they have in the Pacific Northwest, and we don't have the warehouse space where they can store a year's worth of apples," says Jennifer Seiwald, owner of Scrumpy's
Hard Cider Bar in Fort Collins.
* John Adams preferred
hard cider and drank a tankard of the stuff every morning.
Their Dry Hopped
Hard cider option is made using a method normally reserved exclusively for craft beer, dry hopped with Centennial and Chinook hops.
Jonathan Simpson, director of shopper marketing at White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA, pinpoints "flavorful beers and the crisp and refreshing taste of
hard cider [as] natural choice[s] for warm-weather gatherings and celebrations.