NW Cider in the News.

Well it isn’t the best example of Northwest ciders but the Seattle PI saw fit to spotlight Spire’s “Dark and Dry” cider in a beer blog. Spire’s D&D is Dark but ‘taint Dry by any means. I drink it semi regularly as I work a block and half from the brewery and eat lunch there [...]

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Homebrewing & Bottling: A Message to Micro/Craft Brewers & Wineries

While writing my last cider entry I inadvertently exposed a pet peeve of mine regarding the bottling practices of a few micro-breweries and wineries. After a little thought I was thinking I’d like to go into the topic a bit more. Besides my momentary tastes and the quality of the product there is another huge [...]

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Cider Apple & Cider Blog Pickin Season.

As someone who was once desperately trying to find good cider information the internet seems awash with blogs and content this year. Just got dropped this pretty cool blog link about easy cider making from my girlfriend Heather… Thanks babe! http://forfood.rezimo.com/?p=409 She also sent this link yesterday about the country’s first all cider pub. Cider [...]

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Beer Goggles…

Okay… I don’t usually make it a habit of posting videos however this is an exception. Watch a first six days of the fermentation of a stout beer in 3 minutes, if you have the time you have to watch it. It is a great video with a hilarious soundtrack selection.

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Gravity Global Beer Market ~ Olympia WA

As of about three weeks and possibly $150+ (of my money) ago Olympia was gifted with it’s very own specialty beer shop, The Gravity Global Beer Market located at 1001 4th Ave E. Besides copious amounts of premium beers from near and far they also are even offering a quite few ciders I’m happy to [...]

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