Cider Sumit Expands To Chicago
CIDER SUMMIT EXPANDS TO CHICAGO Region’s Largest Cider Tasting Comes to Navy Pier (Seattle, WA) January 18, 2012 SBS Imports and the Seattle Beer Collective are pleased to announce the expansion of their successful Cider Summit festival to Chicago, IL. The inaugural Chicago event will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 11am-7pm in ...
Read MoreCraft Beer Craze Opens Doors for Cider
August 23, 2012 By Kari SkaflenSource: www.midwestwinepress.com The growing U.S. appetite for regional craft beers is having a positive, knock-on effect for the makers of local cider, sparkling and still wine. According to the Brewers Association, the craft beer industry grew by more than ten percent last year, continuing nearly a decade of strong expansion. ...
Read MorePrima Cider Rides the Wave
Prima Cider Rides the Hard Cider Wave June 6, 2012 By Kari Skaflen Imagine a fermented beverage that was once popular and jovial, then ravaged by prohibition, finally driven to the brink of extinction, only to be kept alive by farmers and locavores for decades. Years later, the same drink slowly experiences a renaissance. Recognized ...
Read MorePrima Cider on Hogsalt
As published on www.hogsalt.com Prima Cider April 4th, 2012 by Kari Skaflen For the Bertsches, cider is a long family tradition that began three generations previous with a grandfather who had a propensity for good German cider. In recent years cider has become an even larger part of family life— Patriarch, Richard Bertsche; and his ...
Read MoreThe hard-cider sell
Richard Bertsche of Prima Cider Photo: Brendan Lekan 03/19/2012 The hard-cider sell A Long Grove family brings its German tradition to the Chicago market. By Julia Kramer as published in Time out Chicago 03/22/2012 A few feet past the foosball table in Richard Bertsche’s Long Grove basement is a fully licensed and bonded cidery whose ...
Read MoreQ&A with HardCider International
With roots in German farmhouse cider, Prima Cider, located in upstate Illinois, is working hard to provide—and educate—its local market with the richness of old world cider. Written by Tess Jewell-Larsen and published in Hard Cider International on 01/20/2012 Photographs provided by Prima Cider Just north of Chicago in Long Grove, Illinois, four men of ...
Read MoreOld meet New
Cider making has been in our family going back almost 100 years to the tip of Southern Germany, where Switzerland and France meet, the town of Rottweil. It was simply called “Most”. It was easy to drink, affordable, quenched a working man’s thirst and was a farmer’s best friend when working the fields. Specialty hard ...
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