Cider brewed in honor of James Groom who opened the Grooms Tavern in Clifton Park, NY back in 1825. May we see the return of local brews served at the […]
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Cider #18: Self-Powered w/Grape
This naturally fermented cider was bicycle-foraged using apples picked from the tree growing in front of Hannaford Supermarket and grapes picked from the Clifton Gardens wild grape vine. The cider […]
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Concord Grape Wine #2
This is an attempt to reproduce last year’s concord grape wine which was possibly one of the best homebrews I have made, albeit in a small quantity. Last year I […]
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Mulberries: Berry Season Begins
While riding around my neighborhood I came across an area of bike path where there was a thick layer of overripe mulberries covering the ground: I think of mulberries as […]
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Dried Reishi Tea Powder
I found some really nice Reishi mushrooms. I chopped them up into small pieces, and processed them in the food processor. It happened to be an unusually sunny and arid […]
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Mt. Colvin Rainbow
While hiking Mount Colvin today, the clouds parted just long enough to expose this rainbow. I’ve never seen anything like it, looking down on a huge rainbow with no sky […]
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Signs of Life in the Garden
The garden is finally showing some signs of life:
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Cider #16: Parmesan Cider
Yup, you read that right. I put cheese in this batch of cider at the bottling stage then let it sit at room temperature for several months to age. What’s […]
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Cider #15
1/5/22 – I bought three bags of apples at DeVoe’s Orchard the other day including two bags of macintosh-looking apples, then two of a more yellow big honey-crisp type. Two […]
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Cider #14
10/14/21 I rode to a local area with some wild-looking but large apples. Mostly from trees, but some from the ground. A week or so earlier I had picked a […]
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