The Spirit World

Before a week ago I had never heard of a Cider Cup. Denise and I were trolling through our drinks library to find some interesting looking beer cocktail recipes when we saw this really great picture of this glowing, sparkling orange colored drink with a lime peal twisting through it; the glass itself was […]

Washington state and northern Spain’s Asturias region have many things in common.
Well…actually, just two things in common. They both get a lot of rain. And they both grow a lot of apples.
But whereas the good people of Washington drink Starbucks coffee, those of Asturias drink sidra (pronounced SEE-drah).
Sidra is Spain’s […]

Cider you have heard of, but unless you are devotee of fermented fruit juice you probably haven’t tasted a perry or fermented pear juice. While I have yet to find a pub serving real perry, I did find one pub in England serving real cider.
The White Horse in Oxford had a firkin of real cider […]

Most people know about hard apple cider - apple cider or juice that has been allowed to ferment to produce a lightly alcoholic beverage on par with beer - normally somewhere around the 5% range. But many people are not aware there is another common hard cider, perry or hard pear cider.
The […]