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Spice Hunting: 5 Tips to Brewing a Better Mulled Cider

The aroma of apple and spice is torture for my neighbors, but when dinner guests come by, they take a whiff at the door and all their troubles melt away. Mulling apple cider is one of those domestic activities that makes a house (or a low-rent New York apartment) a home. Here are my five tips to building a better brew.

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11 Comments | Posted by Max Falkowitz, October 6, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Tagged: apple cider, mulling, Serious Entertaining, Spice Hunting, spices, winter holiday

Making Cheap Hard Cider From Scratch

[Photograph: The Paupered Chef] Serious Eats contributors Nick Kindelsperger and Blake Royer explain how they made hard cider on the cheap over at The Paupered Chef. They made four batches using two kinds of apple cider and yeast, and found that Whole Foods' apple cider was great for making easy, cheap hard cider: "It's cheap ($6.99), comes in perfectly sized bottles for fermenting, and makes a balanced, refreshing beverage in about 7 to 10 days." Start a batch soon and you'll have a great beverage for Thanksgiving. Related Snapshots from the UK: Brothers Toffee Apple Cider, a Caramel Apple-Flavored Beverage How to Make Apple Cider Hard Ciders at Thanksgiving, So Underrated...

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5 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, November 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Tagged: apple cider, ciders, DIY, hard cider, tutorials

How to Make Apple Cider

Photograph from Savvy Housekeeping If you really like apple cider (the alcoholic kind, that is), Savvy Housekeeping shares a tutorial for how to make apple cider at home. Apple juice, brown sugar, wine yeast, beer-making equipment, and a few weeks of patience will reward you with 42 bottles of apple cider. Related Bathtub Gin and Other DIY Alcohols Make Your Own Wine at Home How to Make a Watermelon Keg...

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2 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, June 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Tagged: alcohol, apple cider, DIY, tutorials

ÆppelTreow Winery's Pommeaux Dessert Wine

Gourmet's Dara Moskowitz Grundahl was on a long family road trip, stopped randomly at an apple-themed souvenir store just to get out of the car with her baby, and ended up making her wine discovery of 2007. She describes ÆppelTreow Winery's Pommeaux dessert wine as having "the fragrance of a hundred apple trees in bloom, and more," and ended up buying every last bottle they had in stock! They apparently only produce 2,000 cases total of all their products a year, and only sell in a limited amount of stores in the Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Chicago areas, so you'll have to drop them a line about buying it direct from the source, like I'm about to do....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 25, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Tagged: apple cider, apples, dessert wine, wine