After getting coffee and checking some antique stores in Front Royal #Virginia, we went to Cobbler Mountain cidery in Delaplane. We shared a flight of 8 delicious flavors of #cider. My favorites were the Apple cider donut and ginger peach.
If you like your real cider then get along to Grumpy John's (no relation) Cider Festival this Saturday, 5th August in Shipley. He's got a daft number of real ciders from around the UK available as well as his own.
My band Robber John also happen to be playing a set at 7pm.
Cider is pretty great if you're an Apple Music subscriber. I'm giving Apple Music a month to impress me.
I'm either going with Apple music or back to Spotify. I want a Linux client and Deezer's is shite. Sad because Deezer is a little cheaper, but I'm done trying to kid myself and think I'm going to organize my local music. So I need a client.
@thelinuxcast I just signed up for apple music - I have some great lo-fi chill playlists that I love- glad to see its supported in Linux. Will give #cider an install and chance.
We were in #WallaWalla last month and along with the wine, brought home a selection of regional beers and cider. I've been enjoying these with the hot weather: Tangerine Hefeweizen from #IceHarborBrewery, Citra IPA from #JeremiahJohnsonBrewing, Watermelon Cider from #LocustCider, and Juicebox IPA from #TrickstersBrewing. Cheers!
Capitalism, as a system, doesn't do well in anticipating problems or at preparing for crises. That's not how it works.
The only goal of capitalism is creating profits for capitalists, thereby increasing their capital. Short-term, immediate gains. That's all that matters.
So, when the things you expect to find at the store suddenly begin disappearing off the shelves, and no one has an answer for when they'll be back, now you'll know why.
30 years ago the demand for #cider was in steep decline here in the UK. The big commercial cider makers paid farmers to grub out their #orchards and turn them over to other forms of agriculture.
Now "cider" is booming as a cheap drink. The "apple juice" feedstock is imported from China and gods only know what the apples are like and what is done to the juice/cider. Cider makers in the UK are paying farmers to plant orchards again.
Some of the orchards that were grubbed out were hundreds of years old as were the trees growing in them. They contained rare varieties of #apples found nowhere else in the world that gave the cider real flavour and were naturally disease resistant. Old orchards were havens for #wildlife of all kinds. New orchards tend to be deserts of grass with a limited number of varieties of apple trees plonked in them and sprayed with #biocides multiple times per year.
One of the best cider makers in England, Julian Temperly, of Burrow Hill Cider, coincidently just down the road from where I grew up and lived most of my life, was trying to get an EU law passed to say that if you wanted to call your product cider it had to be 99.5% apple juice. Sadly Brexit put an end to it.
Had about four different ciders from this cidery tonight. Every one of them is excellent. Which is extremely high praise coming from me. #stromalong#cider
So... dear People, I may be #Blocking the #Universeodon domain, again. (the Instance's Perspectives rub me wrong). Problem is, these three People are on that instance, and I will miss them: @DeerWhispers @dalfen @LadyDragonfly
Also, @georgetakei is there, too; which also really sucks in this sense (see my thoughts on the Japanese-American Internment).
I am not asking anyone to move for my Preferences. But, it would be Really Cool if a #Fork of #Mastodon or #Calckey had the ability to #Block a #Domain but add exceptions. If this exists, then I do not know about it. Anyone?
Hood River’s #DoubleMountainBrewery revamped the look for its line of #ciders this year, one that is inspired by matchbook designs from the 1940s and 1950s according to the press release. Along with the new designs, the brewery slated six ciders for release this year, and sent me three to review.
Seems that #Apple has made some breaking changes in how #Cider was connecting to Apple Music. So now the best app available for #Linux to use Apple Music is broken.
Here's hoping that the Cider team finds a way to work against the changes. I love my Cider.
@denzilferreira I've had an odd relationship with the web player on Linux. It randomly lowers the volume on either the left or right channel. Sometimes it even mutes one and there is nothing I can do to fix it. That's why I was so happy when I found #Cider because it works 100% on #Linux
@denzilferreira Not sure, they released a new version yesterday to fix this login issue with Apple, but I can't for the life of me run it on Arch. Both the downloaded .AppImage and my own compiled .AppImage run long enough to open the actual app.
I'll see tomorrow if there is any change.
Differences between process for mead and cider?
Hello, I have made several batches of mead and I really enjoyed it. How much of a difference is there with mead vs cider?