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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Category: Homebrewing
Cider #19: Cheerbringer
This cider was the favorite drink of Olaf Cheerbringer, a sorely missed childhood Dungeons and Dragons character. Olaf was a lute-playing bard who sadly never made it past level 1. […]
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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 #3
CGW3 is a second pressing from the concord grapes used for making CGW2. To make CGW3 I extracted the last bits of color and flavor from the grapes by adding […]
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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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Cider #17
1/29/22 I have half a bag of Ruby Mac’s. I bought three bags of apples at DeVoe’s, each a different variety. One bag is Fuji’s which A said people really […]
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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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Cider #12
9/14/21 I rode my bike to Hannaford and picked a bunch of nice apples from the tree in front of the supermarket. I squeezed 3 gallons of juice from apples […]
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