Nick also provided the recipe he used after his own success with it. Homebrewers are a tight-knit, friendly bunch who do this out of love of the craft-why wouldn’t you want to support that?) (While I’ve provided links for reference to Northern Brewer for the majority of the supplies listed below, I’d encourage you to support your local homebrew shop. The foreign nature of the objects and tools found on the shelves made it the closest thing I’d seen to Slug and Jigger’s Apothecary of Diagon Alley. My-Local-Home-Brew-Shop is a tiny little store hidden at the base of a building you would not expect a retail store to exist in but lo, inside, you’ll find it filled to the brim with all sorts of brewing supplies. There are three shops in the area: Maryland Homebrew in Columbia, MD, Danny’s Homebrew in Leonardtown, MD, and the most convenient to the DC-area, My-Local-Home-Brew-Shop, in Seven Corners of Falls Church, VA. I purchased the first round through Northern Brewer, a fantastic homebrew supply site, and then went to a local homebrew supply shop for the rest. Before I was on my way back to DC, I’d already ordered some supplies to get started.īut, I needed more. I visited with my buddy, Nick, who is an avid homebrewer and we spent a day-hike discussing the ins-and-outs of brewing I became very excited by the idea. I had never seriously considered brewing my own hard cider, let alone any sort of alcohol, until last September on a trip to Denver. More importantly however, we’re about 8 months out from the peak of autumn, the same amount of time it takes to make a seriously strong batch of hard cider, which makes this the perfect time to start brewing. But when Mother Nature seduces us on a Friday with the sweet smell of spring, then turns her back days later with a sick smack of sleet, I’m happy to exercise a flagrant disregard for the season. February may seem like a strange time to think about cider, or even autumn.
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