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Ken Schramm

Ken Schramm
2001 Æppeltreow “Appely” Sparkling French-style cider, 9%, bottle #1834 of 4006. Powerful sur-lie aromatic note on pour, diminishes after 5 minutes or so, but does not come close to disappearing. Plenty of cider variety character on the nose (Kingston Black?), with firm Lyman’s Large Summer skin and quince notes, faint whiff of butterscotch. Same fruit impressions on the palate, crisp, dry, good carbonation (3+ atmospheres?), tannins round and recognizable but showing their days, though the acidity is assertive and in balance all the way through the finish. Grown up but not feeling tired in the least. Will deeply disappoint Woodchuck fans.

Charles McGonegal may be the country's most disorderly apple lunatic. He's not particularly interested in compromises.
 
I have the opportunity to distribute these, as they're carried nationwide by Shelton Brothers. As yet I haven't gotten any, something I must soon remedy. I've heard good things from multiple sources, and should check them out sooner than later...

Cheers,

Kevin
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
Charles McGonegal may be the country's most disorderly apple lunatic. He's not particularly interested in compromises.
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This seems like the pot calling the Kingston Black.
 
originally posted by Ken Schramm:
Wisconsin Cider2001 Æppeltreow “Appely” Sparkling French-style 9%
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How do they manage to get these figures? Concentration? Addition of concentrate or sugar?
 
2001 was our first 'pommage'. It was chaptalized with sugar to get to 9% abv.
This was done so that I knew just where in the wine regs I was.

In the last several years, I've dropped the abv to a fraction over 7%. The blend of apples that go into this (some common, some russt, some traditional bitters) goes over 13 brix, so we can do 7% with a dry cider.

Alas, no Kingston in Appely. A little goes into our Kinglet draft cider. Overall, I have a preference for the French bittersweets. I'll take Frequin Tardive over Kingston Black any day.
 
Fuck off, chaptalizing newbie. An apologetic chaptalizing newbie!

And, welcome to Wine Disorder, the best place on the internet to... aw, hell, who knows what goes on here.
 
This seems like the pot calling the Kingston Black.
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I have nothing on Charles. He is a pomological idol. Most notably, he is growing actual perry pears, which requires a level of masochistic twistedness that grape and apple growers find simultaneously impressive and peculiar. Growing perry pears makes cellaring wine seem like a hobby for those with ADHD.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Fuck off, chaptalizing newbie. An apologetic chaptalizing newbie!
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Hey! Watch your language. That should be 'Fuckin', chaptalizing, apologetic, clueless newb'

And Ken. Flattery will get you everywhere. Or at least a sample bottle.
 
originally posted by Charles McGonegal:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Fuck off, chaptalizing newbie. An apologetic chaptalizing newbie!
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Hey! Watch your language. That should be 'Fuckin', chaptalizing, apologetic, clueless newb'
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That's "n00b", they're always clueless, and, as to your wholly inadequate morphology... just wait till The Prof gets ahold of you.
 
My linguistics still dates to the beginning of the 20th century, but I don't see morphological problems. I do object to the misspelling of "Fucking," but I am aware of Fatboy's views on orthography.
 
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