Hard cider is part of the origin story of Applejack, so we'll be looking into a few during our event. We'll start with what is probably our hands-down favorite, Doc's Draft, from the Warwick Valley Winery. We found this little gem of a cider at our local grocery store and have been taking it home with us ever since. We save the bottles too, as they are useful to our home-brew friends and we've got about 100 of them all washed and stacked (hear that Warwick Valley? We've broken the 100 bottle mark because this stuff is just so good).
Actually, you can't really see Doc's Draft at the end of our Cape Fear Punch episode, but it's there. You can see it in the episode right after that one; Sangira.
Doc's Draft is a great example of the kind of difference a locally produced product makes. Mass produced ciders are going to have different apples from different farms. In order to make sure that their cider sold in San Diego is going to taste the same as one sold in Cleveland, they stomp out those differences with processes that make everything taste the same... The end result is that you miss out on a lot. Doc's is a great cider which avoids that whole mess, and the bottle you see featured here usually goes for about $5 to $6. And like we said, if you do home-brew the bottles are great for re-use, and you can get the one label off just with a soak in warm water, they come off very clean with no residue.
If you live in our neck of the woods, Doc's Draft apple cider is available at a number of grocery chains including Met, Gristedes (and Gristedes's poor cousin Red Apple), and you can find the entire line of Doc's Draft, including their pear and rasberry at the recently opened 3rd & 3rd Whole Foods in Brooklyn. ...probably other Whole Foods as well, but we haven't checked.
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