The Wickson variety of apple was developed in 1944 by California pomologist Albert Etter in honor of his distinguished friend and fellow fruit zealot E.J. Wickson. A hybrid of Newtown Pippin and...
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Hopworks Urban Brewery HUB Hard Cider
Best known for organics ingredients, bicycles and beer, Portland's Hopworks Urban Brewery has recently released their break into the cider world with the HUB Hard Cider. A two-year-long endeavor...
Culinary Chemistry: Cider Can Chicken
Just the way a key goes into a lock or a hand slides into a glove, some things just fit together perfectly. When this happens, it can feel almost serendipitous. Or at least that’s how it felt the...
Locust Cider Green Tea Infused Cider
Honey, ginger, berries, hops, coffee—the cideries of the Northwest are often thought of as the Wild West for cider experimentation and the avant garde buck doesn't stop there. Enter Locust Cider,...
Apple Outlaw Blackberry Bounty
Apple Outlaw owners Blair Smith and Marcey Kelly traded traffic for tractors when they moved from the sunny state of California up to Oregon, finding them an orchard in the Applegate Valley. Knowing...
Reverend Nat’s Eagle Rare Bourbon Barrel Aged Revival Cider
Nat West is to Northwest cider as the sun is to the sky. Maybe a grandiose statement, but it sets the tone of West's magnitude to today's cider industry, especially on the left coast. An evangelist...