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Cider Digest #1809
Subject: Cider Digest #1809, 12 September 2013
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Cider Digest #1809 12 September 2013
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
The New Cider Maker's Handbook is now shipping (Claude Jolicoeur)
New Cider Maker's Handbook (Claude Jolicoeur) available (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: The New Cider Maker's Handbook is now shipping
From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoliprsf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:07:10 -0400
I received my first author copy of The New Cider Maker's Handbook
yesterday! I guess this is always quite an event for any author...
In any case, this means all of you that have pre-ordered a copy
should have it at their doorstep within a few days. I hope you enjoy!
For more information, see my web site,
<http://www.cjoliprsf.ca>http://www.cjoliprsf.ca
or the publisher's site,
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_new_cider_makers_handbook/
I would like to thank all of you of the Cider Digest for the great
discussions we have had. Many of these discussions gave me ideas and
informations, and all this evolved into one or another of the
articles of the book. And also thank you especially to Dick Dunn, as
not only does this digest exists through him, but also he has been
the first reader of my manuscript and has had many good suggestions
for improving it!
Claude Jolicoeur
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Subject: New Cider Maker's Handbook (Claude Jolicoeur) available
From: Dick Dunn <rcd@talisman.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:28:48 -0600
Claude Jolicoeur's much-anticipated comprehensive guide to cidermaking is
now out, so folks who pre-ordered should see it soon. Many of you "know"
Claude from his frequent, helpful postings, both here on the Cider Digest
and over on the UK-based Cider Workshop.
My earlier review comments on his new book were as follows:
"This is the book so many craft cider makers have been waiting for: at once
comprehensive, detailed, and authoritative. Planting an orchard? There are
guidelines and suggestions. Need a mill or a press? There are plans and
instructions. Trying to grasp the process, or to know how to measure? It's
there-sugar, acidity, pH, tannin, balance. Troubleshooting a problem? All the
common shortcomings are covered. It really is 'orchard to bottle,' with both
guidance and technical background all along the way."
beyond that...
It starts off with a chapter to get you going on making cider, possibly
even your very first cider. After that there are sections on each major
aspect of cidermaking: orchard practice and fruit selection, milling and
pressing, understanding and analyzing juice, fermentation including style
variations and troubleshooting.
Throughout, there is sound information based on proper research plus
Claude's first-hand experience. There are numbers, tables, formulas.
If you're a bit shy about the science or math, you can skip over those
parts...but if you're curious, you'll find what you want and you can
depend on it.
Two particular aspects of the book stand out for me: First, the
information is complete -and- correct. Second, the book helps you
understand what's going on--you learn not only what works (or doesn't),
but -why-. That way, you can learn to reason out new situations, problems,
and ideas using that understanding.
In a review over on the Cider Workshop, Andrew said "Put it on your
Christmas list!" I wouldn't wait that long.
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Dick Dunn rcd@talisman.com Hygiene, Colorado USA
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