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Caroline Fox
Cider can be a complex drink category, but thankfully, Jimmy Carbone from Beer Sessions Radio has been reporting on the industry since 2011, and is here to guide you through it all. This playlist is designed to be a roadmap, taking you through the ins-and-outs of cider. Starting from the beginning, episodes recorded as early as 2011 are full of experts, here to offer a great introduction into producing, tasting, and creatively experimenting with cider. You’ll watch the cider industry quickly rise in popularity through the years, with more recent episodes diving deeper into specifics, including “place-based” apples, “harvest-based cider,” unidentified apples, and barrel aging. So whether you re interested in learning the basics or diving into the details, Beer Sessions has plenty of in-depth episodes to get you up to speed on the sweet world of cider.
This story first appeared on Civil Eats.
If you know where to look in the fall, you ll find patches of ground turned red with wild apples in certain parts of Ithaca, New York. Steve Selin knows where to look and he seeks that bounty out in his role as cider maker at South Hill Cider. Although Selin owns a small orchard just outside of downtown Ithaca, he also spends time searching the hedgerows and forests around his part of the Finger Lakes for wild apples to use in his cider.
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Steve Selin gathering wild apples to make cider. (Photo credit: South Hill Cider)