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Subject: Cider Digest #1734, 20 September 2012
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Cider Digest #1734 20 September 2012
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival photos (Alan Yelvington)
alternative packaging (Dick Dunn)
Cider Conference 2013 (James Kohn)
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Subject: Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival photos
From: Alan Yelvington <alany@semparpac.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:56:43 -0400
I have a few photos to share from the GLCP
Festival that was held on September 8th.
Photos were uploaded in high-resolution mode
so you can download the full files. Creative
Commons applies, so please give photo credit
to Alan Yelvington if you use a photo for
promotional purposes.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3900464185017.2158091.1081556789&type=
1&l=4746380b7b
A good time was had by all!
Al Yelvington
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Subject: alternative packaging
From: Dick Dunn <rcd@talisman.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:17:44 -0600
First, thanks to Mike Beck for his notes on his new canning line. It's
particularly helpful to have all those numbers, to understand how it would
work out for a small producer and when it would start to make sense.
I'd love to see alternatives to bottles become more practical for small
producers. It's this: Cider has such a great story on how it works with
the environment--the orchard dynamics, so little waste, a product that's
so easily natural and local. Then there's the bottle! "Yeah, and after
all our careful efforts to make this wonderful local product, we put it
in a container that weighs about as much as the product itself, and the
container was manufactured halfway around the world, then shipped here
by an insanely roundabout path." I hear the "BZZZT! Thank you for trying,
but we're sorry."
A can weighs about 1/40th of a bottle, plus the aluminum is easier in
the recycling process.
The other intriguing alternative is bag-in-box. Why don't we have that
here in the US??? In the UK it's available for all the way down to the
lone-eagle producers who are working below the 70 hl duty-free limit (about
1800 US gallons) They've got their choice of 3/5/10/20 litre bags, and the
boxes are even pre-printed for cider. They can buy quantities starting at
10 pieces.
But when I've asked about BiB cider packaging in the US, I get things like
"oh, Scholle does BiB stuff, talk to them" or "here's a URL but I haven't
followed up on it." I have YET to find any cidermaker using BiB here.
WHY?!?!?
- --
Dick Dunn rcd@talisman.com Hygiene, Colorado USA
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Subject: Cider Conference 2013
From: James Kohn <james@wanderingaengus.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:41:21 -0700
I am proud to announce that Cider Conference 2013 in Chicago, IL
registration is now open. Dates of CiderCon are February 7 & 8, 2013.
In its 3rd year, CiderCon 2013 is *THE PLACE* for the Cider Industry to
meet, share ideas, collaborate, and affect positive changes in cidermaking
and cider fruit production best practices, the cider market and cider
regulations.
*
Please register early to insure your spot as the conference space is
limited this year.*
http://www.ciderconference.com
Highlights of this year's conference:
- Two Days of Workshops/Sessions - February 7 & 8, 2013
- Key Note/Welcome address
- Trade Show with Cider Industry specific vendors
- Expanded workshop/session topics with more depth into topics
- Beginning/Cidery in Planning workshop track
- Regulatory session to discuss proposed changes
- Cider Summit Chicago - February 9, 2013. Public tasting modeled after
the popular Cider Summit NW series www.cidersummitnw.com
I hope to see you in Chicago.
Cheers,
James Kohn
Conference Organizer
Wandering Aengus Ciderworks
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