My Newsweek story on hard cider (love the stuff)

Hard Cider, Drink of Presidents, Makes a Comeback

Oct 29, 2012 --Alice Feiring

Hard cider has tried to stage a comeback so often, it’s practically moldy. Yet finally, after many years of false starts, the drink is showing signs of a true renaissance. According to industry belwether Shanken News Daily, an online wine, spirits, and beer trade newsletter, cider is the drink of the moment: in August, the publication ran a lead story entitled “U.S. Cider Segment Showing Torrid Growth.” Torrid growth? Perhaps that’s a little sensational. But casual evidence does show terrifically energetic flowering. Small hard cideries are blossoming in the Northeast, as well as in Virginia, Michigan, and the Pacific Northwest. There is a new abundance of cider weeks and conventions. Many top restaurants are offering hard ciders by the glass.

Cider: it’s delicious and thirst-quenching, our Founding Fathers’ favorite tipple. It has also.......

Comments

[Sarah May]

Cider is my favorite drink with Ethiopian food. Lovely.

[Cutter Knox]

While not quite cider I can never think of cider without thinking of Applejack and the following quote....

"There are few compounds that are more sinful than the applejack of New Jersey. The name has a homely, innocent appearance, but in reality applejack is a particularly powerful and evil spirit. The man who intoxicates himself on bad whisky is sometimes moved to kill his wife and set his house on fire, but the victim of applejack is capable of blowing up a whole town with dynamite and of reciting original poetry to every surviving inhabitant."

– A Wicked Beverage,” New York Times, April 10, 1894

[Alicefeiring]

That's one hell of a quote. Didn't they say the same thing about absinthe?