Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. No presents, just cozy food, family, not a lot of lead up, great leftovers, autumnal, and of course, football. Last year as we stuffed ourselves on all-the-trimmings I couldn't help noticing how wonderful our cider was with the meal. I hadn't paired it at all -- we just drank some of our test batches, some wine, back to other cider varieties, commenting randomly but meaningfully since we'd just been to England on a cider tour t

Every good decision we’ve ever made was over a beer, including the decision to make cider. I’d been working for several years on that other type of fermentation – cheese – and had just returned from a frigid two-week winter class in Vermont with a noted French cheese maker avec un heavy accent. In that class well over two years ago I discovered that even the remote possibility of poisoning someone held no appeal for me, not a chance. Cleaning and sanitizing is a constant job