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Hard Cider Review: JK Scrumpy’s Orchard Gate Gold

16 September, 2013 | 0 Comments

  Like JK Scrumpy’s Northern Neighbor, its Orchard Gate Gold cider has a crisp, tannic snap that I love. It doesn’t have the intense wild apple character that Northern Neighbor does, but it’s definitely chock full of cider apples. This would be an almost flawless example of [...]

Hard Cider Review: JK Scrumpy’s Northern Neighbor

14 September, 2013 | 4 Comments

Well, I’ve ruined my cider review strategy already. I had been planning on working my way up through reviews of some of the run-of-the-mill, commercial ciders before moving on to what I consider to be the main event: artisanal ciders made in a localized fashion with quality cider apples of [...]

Hard Cider Review: Crispin Natural Hard Apple Cider

12 September, 2013 | 1 Comment

I intended this post to be a simple review of Crispin’s flagship product, a hard apple cider which is intentionally drier (i.e., contains less sugar) than most commercial ciders on the market. And that’s what it starts with: a review. But when I started looking into the company’s [...]
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