Cider
Ancho in Cider Recipe
This easy, autumnal highball comes from The Bon Vivants, the cocktail team behind San Francisco's Trick Dog. The spice gets your tastebuds ready for turkey, and the cider tells you it's officially fall. Plus, it can be served hot or cold.
This Is Why Teenagers Aren’t Drinking Alcopops Anymore
The sickeningly sweet, pre-mixed concoctions were everywhere come the turn of the millennium, but today’s teenage drinkers are immune to the allure of the alcopop.
Bad Perry Is a Relic from the 70s Dinner Party of Your Darkest Nightmares
While the best perry is a heady, near narcotic delight—dry, elegant, evocative of the crisp autumn afternoons—a bad perry can be very bad indeed.
New York City's Free, Foraged Fruit Makes the Best Cider
Passersby rarely take note of them, but there are wild fruit trees growing all over New York City. I joined a cider-maker and a sommelier to forage for found fruit in the parks of upper Manhattan, which we'll press and ferment into booze.
I Fell Under the Drunken Spell of Midsummer's Pagan Magic
The old pagan sun-worshiping festival known as Midsummer is often plagued by bad weather in Sweden, but we make up for it by eating a smorgasbord and drinking enough aquavit to forget the songs we sing dancing around a pole.
New England Wants to Be the Bordeaux of Cider-Making
“If our cider’s any good, it’s because we don’t know what the hell we’re doing,” says Stephen Wood of New Hampshire's Farnum Hill Ciders. And it's that kind of approach that is setting his cider apart from the sweet stuff that's been taking over beer...
Dorset’s Traditional Cider Makers Say You’re Drinking Chemical-Laden Muck
Cider’s popularity has boomed in recent years, but for traditional brewers, that chemical-laden liquid you knock back in the beer garden is an insult to real craftsmanship.
I Spent 19 Hours Inside a London Chain Supermarket
You don't know true loneliness until you drink two cans of cider alone in an ASDA's garden-furniture department.
Will Alcohol Nutrition Labels Actually Make Anyone Drink Less?
No one is under the delusion that alcohol is a health drink. But if every time you went for a sip of raspberry-flavored alcopop you were reminded that it has 220 empty calories and a load of artificial flavors, it might make you think twice about going...
This Man Wants to Make a Dirty Pint With Your Apples
A London drinks-maker is transforming the city’s unwanted and unloved apples into craft cider.
MUNCHIES Guide to the Basque Country - Part 3
Watch as Irene cuddles baby piglets (then eats their relatives' bacon), gets tipsy at a 500-year-old cider house, and chomps her way through two pounds of chuleta steak.
West Country Cider Is a Relic from Another Century
Although the UK has seen a huge resurgence of interest in commercial cider over the past decade, true West Country cider is a different beast—one that delivers a life-affirming booze kick alongside bold spice.