Website - Hard Cider News

I'm really glad I stumbled upon this website http://www.hardcidernews.com/ , which like the name says is everything you need to know about Hard Cider. Whether you are a fan of hard cider or looking to make hard cider there is something for you here.

I read about NY State Senator Charles E. Schumer, and his new CIDER Act, which will make cider production in NY more productive and attrative. The CIDER Act, Cider, Investment & Development through Excise Tax Reduction Act, will modernize the definition for hard apple and pear cider in the Internal Revenue Code to increase their allowed alcohol by volume from 7 percent to 8.5 percent, encompassing significantly more hard cider products and allowing them to be labeled and taxed like hard cider, rather than wine as it currently is.

There are articles on current brewers and new products. McKenzie’s Hard Cider has announced the release of a new cider style, Lazy Lemon, a gluten free lemonade cider. It has a burst of citrus without the acidic bite.

Lazy Lemon will be available in both package and draft beginning in April in select locations in NY, NH, ME, MA, OH, MI, FL, OK and VT. McKenzie’s Hard Cider is coming soon to CT, NJ, PA, TX and WI.

There was even a spotlight on a current kickstarter campaign to fund a new Hard Cider Public Taproom in Portland, Oregon.  Please follow this link for more information and to help fund this project.

Reverend Nat's Hard Cider Public Taproom