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Instead of beer, try hard cider. It’s a natural for quaffing or food pairing, and replaces the flavors of malt and hops with apple or pear (cider made with pears is called perry). First, the difference between hard cider and fresh cider. Hard cider is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from the unfiltered juice of…
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Get it before it disappears from the shelves. Photo courtesy Angry Orchard Cider Company. This may well be your last weekend to pick up seasonal summer hard ciders, before producers replace them with fall blends. We received a shipment of Angry Orchard Elderflower Hard Cider, and have been saving it to serve this weekend.…
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Not hard cider, but apple (pomme) lambic, a style of Belgian beer. Photo courtesy Lindemans. For a country so keen on fruity cocktails, we don’t drink much fruit beer. But summer is the perfect time for it, so plan to have a few before Labor Day. Fruit beers have been popular for centuries, beginning…
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Chill that beer in a minute. Photo courtesy Hewy Wine Chillers. We’re quite enamored of the Corkcicle, a reusable, gel-filled plastic icicle. Kept in the freezer until you need it, it becomes a wine cooler and bottle stopper that chills down a bottle of wine or maintains the temperature of an already chilled bottle.…
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While some beer drinkers quaff their chosen brew month in and month out, others follow the seasons, choosing summer beers when the weather gets hot. By varying recipes with different malts, hops and yeasts, craft brewers produce summer beers, The goal is to deliver flavor while keeping the body lighter and more refreshing on a…
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