Cider week

[Sharon Bowman]

Is well nigh upon us!

It looks as though there will be interesting things afoot.

I started early with some Eve's Cidery Northern Spy, a single variety cider of striking austerity. A little warmer than fridge temp, it unfurled into some tendrils of interesting complexity, enveloping you into its yeasty appledom. It's a pretty alcoholic cider at 10% abv, but it didn't feel heavy or particularly hot.

It paired excellently with the thrilling car-subway chase in "The French Connection" (1971) and some goat cheese-shiitake-caramelized onion pizza (2011).

 

[Zachary Ross]

I had no idea about Cider week, but two nights ago I had a super tart, super dry, super bretty cider from the Basque region of Spain: Isategi. I kind of liked it.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

I just peeled and cut about 20 apples from our backyard tree for applesauce! Who knows what I might be missing? Mongrel apples, a few worms here and there. When I was in Worms, though, I drank beer.

 

[Ken Schramm]

Daughter who helped...

Man with the yield...

23 bushels pressed, 40 plus varieties, 89 gallons total. Still several bushels to cook with, a huge apple crisp and several quarts of sauce today.

 

[Kevin Roberts]

originally posted by Zachary Ross:
I had no idea about Cider week, but two nights ago I had a super tart, super dry, super bretty cider from the Basque region of Spain: Isategi. I kind of liked it.

I had one of these, vintage 2008, a couple weeks ago and was pretty impressed. Dry and funky. De Maison was the importer, right?

Cheers,

Kevin

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Ken Schramm:
23 bushels pressed, 40 plus varieties, 89 gallons total. Still several bushels to cook with, a huge apple crisp and several quarts of sauce today.

Wow! Anything being fermented for later?

 

[Ken Schramm]

Yep.

 

[SFJoe]

So, Bowman, pretty hard to eh?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by SFJoe:
So, Bowman, pretty hard to eh?

You're so pithy. I'm thrilled to the core!

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

No seedy commentary, please.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by SFJoe:
So, Bowman, pretty hard to keep ahead of the curve, eh?

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by SFJoe:
So, Bowman, pretty hard to eh?

You're so pithy. I'm thrilled to the core!

So curious, not sure what happened to that one.

In any case, one week SB brings us the news of cider, the next there are cider bars on every corner and we are yawning and on to the next craze.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

The potential for insider trading is mind boggling.