Category: podcast
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Bill Bleasdale – Welsh Mountain Cider
Download: 008_Bill_Bleasdale_Welsh_Mountain_Cider.mp3 [55.0MB, 1:00:07] ERIC WEST (Intro): This is the Cider Guide Podcast, I’m your host Eric West. Each episode I sit down to chat with a personality from the wide world of cider. Past guests have included Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider & Perry, Nicole Leibon of Farnum Hill Ciders, and Andy Brennan of Aaron…
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Alan Shapiro – Cider Summit Festivals
Download: 007_Alan_Shapiro_Cider_Summit.mp3 [27.5MB, 30:04] ERIC WEST (Intro): Joining me for Episode 7 is Alan Shapiro of SBS Imports. Alan organizes the highly successful Cider Summit festivals in Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Much of our conversation focuses on the past, present, and future of the Cider Summit festivals. But Alan also has…
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John Bunker & Rowan Jacobsen
Download: 006_John_Bunker_Rowan_Jacobsen.mp3 [25.6MB, 28:01] ERIC WEST (Intro): In this interview, I am on location at Franklin County CiderDays in Massachusetts. I had the great fortune of talking with both John Bunker and Rowan Jacobsen after their talk on Saturday morning. John Bunker, he’s an apple expert—one of the US’s most pre-eminent apple experts. He’s based out…
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Andy Brennan – Aaron Burr Cider
Download: 005_Andy_Brennan.mp3 [39.2MB, 42:42] ERIC WEST (Intro): Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cider in the Hudson Valley of New York joins me for Episode 5. Andy has received a great deal of positive press—much of it highlighting his use of foraged apples—and his ciders are highly regarded by tastemakers in New York City. Aaron Burr is a…
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Mike Beck – Uncle John’s Cider Mill
Download: 004_Mike_Beck.mp3 [31.5MB, 34:17] ERIC WEST (Intro): Mike Beck of Uncle John’s Cider Mill in St. Johns, Michigan joins me for Episode 4. Not only does Mike oversee a huge seasonal retail operation at Uncle John’s, he also happens to make some of the best cider, fortified cider, and apple-based spirits in the country. And did…