Cidery
2024 Harvest Report
As most of you know, we lost our entire crop last year (2023) due to an exceptionally late and cold May freeze. For us people, business owners with bills to pay, this felt like a loss. For the apple trees, I suspect it felt more like an extended vacation. An entire growing season of photosynthsizing…
Read MoreSpring 2023 Buds and Blooms
Apple bud phenology is a measure of time, one that doesn’t run parallel to the clock or calendar, an alternate dimension that most orchardists live in each spring from the moment the buds break dormancy to the final fruit set in mid-summer. These days, it’s too cliche to say “warmer than normal”, “earlier than normal”,…
Read MoreFall 2022 Harvest Report
As the 2022 growing season enters its harvest season I am finding stark beauty in the way that nature finds its equilibrium. Our orchard is not a machine, a unit of production. It is a living breathing ecosystem. And this year, much like the wild apple trees, it is resting after last year’s massively abundant…
Read MoreLimited Edition Label Art
Hi, Leila here, welcome to the latest post of the Beckhorn Valley View. In this post I am going to be talking a little about Eve’s cider club and my and my brother’s part: creating label art for the limited edition ciders. Firstly, I want to start this off thanking my parents. My family was…
Read MoreHarvest Report 2019
Harvest Report – Wet Spring, Glorious Fall for Apples, Pears, People & Cider While last year’s growing season was a dry spring followed by a sopping wet fall, the 2019 season was a reverse. It rained and snowed all winter and spring and stayed wet until early summer. Then, suddenly, like magic, the clouds lifted,…
Read MoreThe Tangled Path of Pommeau: Harvesting, Distilling, and Preserving
In my cabin near the cidery, there’s a dehydrator slowly turning spirals of Jonagolds into dried apples that should last me through the winter if I’m careful. Having the dehydrator going has the added bonus of saving me firewood; even the heat its losing doesn’t end up going to waste. And even on their own,…
Read MoreInternship 2018
Are you interested in learning how to make cider, grow apples, or run a small farm based business? Consider our 2018 farm internship at Eve’s Cidery. Come be part of our family farm and learn about growing apples specifically for cider with over 50 different traditional European and American cider varieties on a certified…
Read MoreAnnouncing 2016 Vintage Releases
We are so excited to release the following 2016 vintage ciders! Albee Hill 2016 Northern Spy 2016 Darling Creek 2016 Essence 2016 These ciders will be shipping from our online store beginning 12/5/17, and be in the trade by winter 2018. Labeling Ice Cider 2016 Vintage: A Different Beast. Frozen Blossoms 2016 was one of…
Read MoreFermentation
Is This Tank Clean? Unlike some other aspects of our operation, it is hard to give a behind the scenes look at the process by which apple juice is transformed into cider. Fermenting is one of the the most intricate, challenging and rewarding things we don’t do. In fact, aside from a bobbling airlock, it’s…
Read MoreThe Art of Disgorging
Disgorging in a French word to describe the last step in the methode champenoise, or Champagne Method for producing a naturally sparkling wine (or in this case cider) in the bottle. In this step the yeast used in the secondary fermentation to create bubbles is removed from the bottle so the beverage is not cloudy. The inverted…
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