Cider Chat

Tin Hat cidermaker Teddy Weber is stewarding a 25 year old orchard in Waitsfield Vermont. This musician by trade got his taste for cider in the UK during his music gigs while there. He teamed up with Sue and Gib Geiger who own the orchard that Teddy has been stewarding and where this chat takes place.  In this chat, Teddy and I walkabout in the orchard in Waitsfield and discuss the beginnings of Tin Hat, apple varieties, working with culinary apples for cider and culinary pears, cultured yeast vs wild yeast. His enthusiasm for apples is contagious. Apples in this Chat Northwestern Greening Kerr Crabapple Atlas Barry Red Honey Gold Scott Winter Golden Russet Dolgo Crab Lodi Yellow Transparent Red Astrican Duchess of Oldenberg Northern Spy Pears Nava Luscious Cidermaking techniques used cyro-extraction - getting the juice directly from a frozen apple cyroconcentration - the apple is pressed and then you freeze the juice Tin Hat Ciders (currently) Ole Pome Traditional still cider, unfiltered, wild fermente