Welcome To The Cider School Blog
Musings about topics such as cidermaking, orchard management, and starting a cidery
Cidery In a Box
Equipping Your Cidery Intended Audience This post is geared toward cidermakers looking to open a commercial cidery. With the possible exception of the grinding/pressing equipment and the smallest of the fermenters, the equipment discussed herein is impracticably large...
Making Cyser for the 2016 Mazer Cup
Symposia and Competitions Recently, Matt Williams, of Winemaker's Academy, and I, joined Allen and Tysen of Meadmakr in the first of what I hope to be several discussions about Cyser: the crossover beverage between cider and mead, containing both apples and honey. The...
Turning Over A New Leaf: The Beginnings Of A Cider Apple Orchard
You Don't Know Nothin' About No Farmin'! Despite its questionable grammar, this sentence--spoken to me by my friend Bill, on whose farm I was making my first attempt at planting an apple orchard--rang so, so true, and has reverberated in my head since that sunny day...
Equipment Review: The Speidel 30L Fermenter
Overview: Dan here--I am the author of this website and a cider blog, cidersage. I make a lot of mead and cider at home, and have recently started to place in AHA-affiliated competitions for the former. Over the years, I've used mostly...