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Subject: Cider Digest #1735, 27 September 2012
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Cider Digest #1735 27 September 2012
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
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Cider Days 2012 is coming soon (Ben Watson)
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Subject: Cider Days 2012 is coming soon
From: Ben Watson <BWatson@chelseagreen.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:21:21 -0400
The 18th Annual Franklin County Cider Days will be held this year on the
weekend of November 3-4 in western Massachusetts. For complete details
and schedule, please check out the website: www.ciderdays.org
As always, this is a great opportunity for cider producers (both home
and commercial) and cider drinkers to get together in a beautiful part
of New England. Workshops, tastings, tours, and other events take place
in orchards and venues all over the scenic towns surrounding Greenfield,
MA. Most of the workshops and other events are free of charge; focused
tasting workshops on Sunday and the Cider Salon (open tasting) and Local
Harvest Supper on Saturday are very popular, and tickets for these sell
out quickly. So, if you are planning to attend this year, you'll want to
go to the Cider Days website and reserve your tickets very soon.
The Cider Salon has been described (by me!) as the largest open tasting
of cider and perry in the Western Hemisphere - even though Mike Beck and
the Great Lakes Cider & Perry Association may have matched us. Regardless,
it's a tremendous opportunity to sample ciders from all over the US and
some from other parts of the world. This year, I expect we'll have around
35 producers (many of them in attendance) from as far away as California,
Montana, Texas, North Carolina, and international brands from Ontario,
Nova Scotia, England, Ireland, France, Spain - even New Zealand. This
year we'll probably have 15 cideries that are new to Cider Days, and as
many as 20 producers in attendance. Just as exciting to me are the new
Massachusetts and Vermont producers who will be represented.
For the fourth straight year, we will be holding a nonpublic Producers
Forum, on Friday, Nov. 2 followed by a kickoff dinner for producers and
organizers. This is a casual meeting for attending cidermakers to meet
their colleagues and get together in one place at one time to discuss issues
of mutual interest and concern. We have tried hard to make this weekend a
collegial opportunity for cider producers to get together informally and
learn from one another, as well as a public festival for cider aficionados.
Among the home cidermaking workshops, our fellow Digest contributor Claude
Jolicoeur from Quebec will be doing a new talk about how to make ice cider at
home. And, as always, there will be many other talks and tastings focused
on home-scale producers.
Cider Days is a completely volunteer-run event whose purpose is to promote
the appreciation and improvement of good cider and cider/apple culture
in America. Franklin County is a historic apple-growing and cider-making
region, and offers a scenic background for this low-key, multi-venue
festival. There are lots of family activities, plus a wide range of cider
and apple workshops and discussions geared to all levels of expertise.
Please contact me off-line if you are interested in Cider Days and need
more specific information.
Ben Watson
Francestown, NH
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