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NY Cider Week: Beacon
New York Cider Week is here! I rolled into the great state of New York after a lovely drive through New England on business, and I coasted down interstate 84 from Connecticut towards the Hudson Valley amidst a sea of red and gold leaves, stopping along the way for some farmstand fresh cider and donuts.… Read more
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New York Cider Stuff! – A taste of things to come
Finding Lots to share on the blog this week! Here’s another interesting piece on a New York cider maker, stolen from the NY Cider Week feed. I am really looking forward to going to New York Cider Week and will report back on my adventures there, so stay tuned. It happened to coincide with a… Read more
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Perry in Austria – Courtesy Bill Bradshaw
If you don’t already read Bill Bradshaw’s great cider blog, take a look at this description of his trip to the perry producing region in Austria. http://iamcider.blogspot.com/2013/10/die-mostviertal-perry-in-lower-austria.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IamciderOnTheIncide+%28IAMCIDER%3A+On+The+Incide%29 Read more
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Lost Fruit
Sometimes you wish to curl up Inside the skin of something lost, perhaps a grape still hanging on the vine after the frost where you can soak up the autumn sun and sip its sweetness slowly past the equinox. All the hands that missed you, all the birds, all the wasps that flew by, all… Read more
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Too many pears, Too little labour
Check out this NPR story on the enormous pear crop and labour shortage in the Pacific Northwest. http://www.npr.org/2013/10/07/230023629/pacific-northwest-farmers-in-search-of-more-workers Read more
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The 17th Century is the Best Century
Back at my desk in Indiana, I have been reading and taking notes on a really lovely chapter in a book called A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-century England. The chapter “Drinking Cider in Paradise: Science, Improvement, and the Politics of Fruit Trees”, by Dr. Vittoria Di Palma, has lots to offer the… Read more
Cider With Maria 