Emma Christensen

Thank you to Netgalley and Ten Speed Press for the chance to read and review this ARC;


I am pleased to say I was tickle pink the moment I saw this book. I have a deep love for cider drinking and I've been moving slowly (and cautiously) toward the idea of trying to brew my own. This a curiosity brought on by my brother's own beer and mead making prowess.

I was so pleased to see how the beginning of this book was laid out to help with such things. That it's gentle, and tells you how to pick your apples, why and which kind, and even talks about how not to go broke getting what you want. That there is an explicit guide to which kinds of apples what which characteristics, how to recognize them, what they brought to the cider party in means of taste, and what the common varietals of those were.

I have to give a great kudos to the writers that the first almost 40% of the book is just around how to go about making cider, everything from the beginning to the end, and all the questions you might have in-between. I was stellar-y blown away by their meticulous attention to detail, the way they made it clear enough even a beginner could understand, and left me with very few questions by the end of it.

Also, the end having a resource center and a dictionary of possibly lesser known words was amazing.

The recipes, of course, are to die for. They sounds breathtaking and I want to start trying several even now. I think I want to start with honey, or champagne, or bourbon varieties first, to wow and surprise my tasters. What about you? Where do you want to start, good reader/cider maker?… (plus d'informations)