
CIDER WEEK HUDSON VALLEY JUNE 12 – 21, 2015
Visit the Cider Week Hudson Valley website for more detals: ciderweekhv.com
Millstone American Farmhouse Cidery’s 2nd Annual Apple Blossom Festival Is May 16th, In Parkton, Maryland.
It’s Almost Time For Ontario Cider Week. May 30 to June 6, 2015. See The Line Up!
CIDER SUMMIT SF ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP OF CIDER PRODUCERS
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CIDER SUMMIT SF ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP OF CIDER PRODUCERS
Tickets on Sale for Leading Hard Cider Tasting Event in the Presidio
San Francisco, Calif. – Cider Summit San Francisco is excited to announce the full lineup of ciders and programming details for the region’s largest cider tasting festival. In its second year in the Bay Area and new, expanded location at the Civil War Parade Ground in the Presidio, Cider Summit SF will take place onSaturday, April 25, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Cider lovers will come together to taste over 150 ciders from 46 cideries, including 74 ciders from California, and other regional favorites and international classics.
Event highlights include:
- Enjoy specially paired food selections from the Whole Foods Market Truck, Slow Hand BBQ and others
- Taste varieties of fresh-pressed apple juice from Gowan Orchards
- Compete in apple bowling from Presenting Sponsor, Whole Foods Market
- Hang out in the “Dog Lounge” hosted by Berkeley Humane & Wag Hotels
- Shop in the event store featuring Cider Summit SF t-shirts and other merchandise
Just announced cider producers participating include:
101 Cider House
2 Towns / Traditions
Anthem Ciders
Artisanal Imports
Atlas Cider Co.
Aspall Cyder House
Bite Hard Cider
Bristols Cider
California Cider Company
Cider Brothers
Ciders of Spain
Common Cider
Crispin Cider Co.
Devoto Orchards
Eden Ice Cider Co.
E.Z. Orchards Cidre
Farnum Hill Ciders
Finnriver Cidery
FoxCraft
Golden State Cider
Gowans Cider
Horse & Plow
Humboldt Cider
Indigeny Reserve
JK’s Almar Orchards
Le Face Cachee de la Pomme
Maeloc Cider
Orchard Gate Imports
Red Branch Cider
Reef Points
Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider
Rogue Cider
Santa Cruz Scrumpy
Sea Cider Farm & Cider House
See Canyon Hard Cider
Schilling Hard Cider
Sonoma Cider
South City Ciderworks
Specific Gravity Cider
Tag & Jug Cider
Thistly Cross
Tieton Cider Works
Tilted Shed Ciderworks
Troy Cider
Two Rivers Cider Company
Vermont Hard Cider Co.
Wandering Aengus
Waupoos Cider
William’s Orchards
Winesellers, Ltd.
Worley’s Cider
For a full lineup of events, cidermakers and to purchase tickets, visit the site here or on Facebook and Twitter #CiderSummitSF. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door (cash only).
For those seeking to utilize public transportation, the complimentary PresidiGo shuttle runs throughout the day from several locations in San Francisco. SF MUNI also operates multiple bus routes to the Presidio. There is also ample onsite parking. If you prefer not to drive, Uber is offering a special promo code to get people to and from the Cider Summit. Enter the promo code CIDERSUMMITSF to get a free first ride up to $20. Ride credit is for new Uber users only and is not valid on uberTAXI.
Cider Summit SF is presented by Whole Foods Market, along with supporting sponsors Upcider Gastropub, Orchard Garden Hotel, Wag Hotels, KIND Snacks, BART, and Morris Distributing. Cider Summit will benefit The Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, Berkeley Humane, and the California Cider & Perry Association.
Cider Coast To Coast: Cider Rite Of Spring and GOOD CIDER
Upcoming Good Cider Event Features Impressive Line Up Of New York Cidermakers
1st ever GOOD CIDER Event March 18 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Get Your Tickets Now.
Indian Ladder Farmstead Brewery and Cidery
The Standard Cider Co. from Brotherhood
The Finger Lakes Cider House at Good Life
and more…
More Good News: “Cider will be on sale at the event, so you can plan on taking home a bottle of your new (and old) favorites!”
GOOD CIDER: A Celebration of New York Cider. March 18th, 2015. Get Your Tickets Now.
Read more about GOOD CIDER at Edible Manhattan: Good Cider to Toast New York’s Hard Cider Boom Brace yourselves. Good Cider is coming.
Get your tickets NOW via www.ediblemanhattan.com and Brown Paper Tickets.
It’s The Annual Call To Wassail. January 5th -17th, 2015.
A Call To Wassail. January 5th – 17th, 2015.
Hello Friends of Cider!
We ask YOU the cider community to join us in embracing Wassail in 2015.
What is Wassail?
Wikipedia:
“The Orchard-Visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year.”
Herefordshire Times:
“Steeped in history, wassailing is traditionally held on the Twelfth Night after Christmas and performed in orchards to awaken the apple trees from their winter slumber and ward off bad spirits.”
When is Wassail?
We propose to observe North American celebrations from January 5th to January 17th, 2015. (‘New’ 12th Night Eve to ‘Old’ 12th Night – more about that later).
Goals for the 2015 Wassail:
Explore Old & New World Wassail Traditions
Salute The Orchard
Honor The Apple
Celebrate With Cider
How Can You Wassail?
Enjoy cider and a wassail bowl with friends.
Visit an orchard, cidermaker or local cider-serving establishment and toast the orchard & the apple.
Host a Wassail Event.
Or just raise a glass to Cider.
Let us know if you’ve planned an event – we’ll post it on our Wassail 2015 page.
If you tweet about your cider activities – consider using the hashtag #Wassail2015.
The 2015 Wassail Theme: Explore Wassail.
We hope this will be an informal collaborative effort and an annual event for the growing cider community in North America.
Take a look at our Wassail 2015 page for more information, links, and recipes.
Wassail 2015.
WASSAIL 2015
January 5th – January 17th, 2015
We encourage you to Wassail, honor the orchard and celebrate the apple.
Wassail in the orchard, at your favorite cider-serving establishment, or where ever Twelfth Night week finds you.
Join us and raise a glass of cider – toast the apple & the orchard.
WASSAIL 2015
Highlights from
WASSAIL 2014
January 5th – January 17th, 2014*
UNITED STATES:
CA: Tilted Shed Ciderworks Orchard Wassail on Old Twelfth Night January 17, 2014 www.tiltedshed.com
MO: Wassailing the Apple Trees and Dinner at Powell Gardens – January 18, 2014. www.powellgardens.org/wassailing
NY: Redbyrd Orchard Cider – January 17, 2014. redbyrdorchardcider.com
NY: Wassail daily at The Drink with their Wassail cup or bowl thedrinkbrooklyn.com
OR: Finn River Cidery Winter Wassail – January 18, 2014. www.finnriver.com
VT: Champlain Orchards – January 18, 2014. www.champlainorchards.com
CANADA:
BC: Sea Cider Winter Wassail Celebration – January 19, 2014 seacider.ca
OUR WASSAIL POSTS:
A Call To Wassail. January 5th – 17th, 2014.
Come All Ye Cider Drinkers and Join In The Wassail!
A Bit About Wassailing From the National Association of Cider Makers
IT BEGINS. 13 Days Of Wassailing 2014
The Pagan Rite WASSAIL! Brown, Bradshaw and World’s Best Ciders.
Wassail Day 1. Fortifying with Pear Brandy. Olmsted’s Sidecar Cocktail.
Wassail Traditions: The 5 Key Elements.
Old Apple Tree, We’ll WASSAIL Thee!
WASSAIL RESOURCES & LINKS: LEARN MORE ABOUT ORCHARD WASSAILING:
Wassailing Through History from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, USA
About Wassailing from the National Association of Cider Makers, United Kingdom
Cider: It’s Time for Wassail by Maria Kennedy of Cider With Maria for Twice Cooked
Wassail: An Unexpected Revival by Maria Kennedy of Cider With Maria
Wassail: Some Historical Reports and their Contexts by Maria Kennedy of Cider With Maria
Wassail Story From The Radio Program – Living on Earth via the blog Cider With Maria
The Foodie Bugle Talks Wassail: Here’s To Thee Old Apple Tree
A SELECTION OF WASSAIL RECIPES:
Lambswool (Wassail) Recipe (with history notes) for a modern kitchen from RecipeWise recipewise.co.uk
Traditional Lambswool Recipes from early sources collected by RecipeWise recipewise.co.uk
Holiday drinks: Here we come a-wassailing at American Food Roots with a recipe and video from Alton Brown (with eggs, ale and Madeira)
How To Make PDTs Winter Wassail with Hudson Valley Cider from Breezy Hill Orchard via Serious Eats
From PUNCH Drink: A Recipe For Wassail: punchdrink.com
The Churchill’s Jenn Dowds shared this Wassail recipe with Rosie Schaap for The New York Times.
*The month of January 2014 was dedicated to Wassail at United States of Cider.