[Sir Napsalot]

A brief histoy of hard cider in America. Interesting read (for me).

[rktman]

Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friend.

[cotton1706]

Sam Adams, of course! Keep it in the family!

[Lancey Howard]

[Sherman Logan]

For everyone but the lucky few who lived near a natural spring or fast-running stream

Apparently the colonists didn't know about wells.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We like a little hard cidey once in awhile ourselves. Its ridiculously easy to brew.

[Pontiac]

My mother has told me of my grandfather and his father being highly regarded for their cider.

After a harvesting party (when neighbors would come to their farm to help with harvesting his crop) they would tap a barrel of cider and all of the men folk would become quite drunk. Apparently my grandmother was never very happy about this tradition.

They had a orchard with apples, peaches, Blackberries and pears. All that was left by the time I can remember is one blackberry tree and one apple tree (used for pie). Unfortunately their skill in making cider died with my grandfather.

[Red_Devil 232]

I have been making Hard Cider this past year. Here is a picture of a cider fermenting nicely.

And a picture of a small class of finished Hard Cider. I prefer to make my cider to be a Sparkling Cider. It just tastes better to me.

[Slump Tester]

When I was a kid, we had a cider press and a small orchard. The best cider was from drop apples that had laid around long enough to shrivel up a little. It made for a concentrated, super sweet and thick syrupy cider! The more different kinds of apples you used, the better it was as well.

I can't stand commercial cider today. It's all watered down and weak. Even the stuff you find in rural areas is watered down from the water that clings to the skin when they wash them or float them to the hopper.

Our cider never lived long enough to get very hard.

[Malone LaVeigh]

If John Adams could see what's happened to this country ...

[Fedupwithit]

At this point in time, with what this country has become....

My bet would be arsenic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Here in Western Pennsylvania we tried to supply all yinz with whiskey. But true to form the Feds slapped a heavy tax on it and then sent in the jackboots with guns.

[reed13k]

Rye whiskey was very popular during that time period and I have acquired the taste recently - has an almost peppermint quality compared to burboun