madscientist451
Well-Known Member
I was listening to a CiderChat pod cast on the way to work about Eve's cider in New York, (note: lots of great information and well worth the time)
and when I got home I checked out the Eve's Cider web page. Of interest to me was that they were selling a 2014 Northern Spy Cider here in the fall of 2017. I made some Northern Spy Cider in 2014, and I thought it was a failure, way too acidic for my taste, I tried blending it with other cider and ended up just putting a few gallons in some jugs, pushing them to the back of the closet and forgot about it until today.
So I got a jug out and took a taste and it was way better than I remember.
The strong acidic character was much reduced, the label from 2015 said it had a "slight sulfur note" and I now couldn't really detect any. I didn't think cider should be kept that long, and figured I'd have to go
through all my old cider and eventually dump a lot of it.
So the moral of the story? Don't be too quick to dump cider if it doesn't suit your taste right now, time changes many things for the better.
Unfortunately my source for tree ripened N. SPY apples retired and another local grower picks them way too green which makes the juice even more acidic, So I haven't made any recently.
and when I got home I checked out the Eve's Cider web page. Of interest to me was that they were selling a 2014 Northern Spy Cider here in the fall of 2017. I made some Northern Spy Cider in 2014, and I thought it was a failure, way too acidic for my taste, I tried blending it with other cider and ended up just putting a few gallons in some jugs, pushing them to the back of the closet and forgot about it until today.
So I got a jug out and took a taste and it was way better than I remember.
The strong acidic character was much reduced, the label from 2015 said it had a "slight sulfur note" and I now couldn't really detect any. I didn't think cider should be kept that long, and figured I'd have to go
through all my old cider and eventually dump a lot of it.
So the moral of the story? Don't be too quick to dump cider if it doesn't suit your taste right now, time changes many things for the better.
Unfortunately my source for tree ripened N. SPY apples retired and another local grower picks them way too green which makes the juice even more acidic, So I haven't made any recently.
