More akin to natural wine than beer, the new crop of naturally fermented hard ciders are pleasantly funky and never too sweet.
ciders. If you already have a thing for skin contact wines, you’ll feel right at home, and if you don’t, well, this is a beautiful new world to explore.
The epicenter of the naturally fermented cider movement is the Northeast, the Napa Valley of the American cider world. From New York’s Finger Lakes to southern Maine, heritage apples have been growing for more than 300 hundred years.
So how do we find a naturally fermented cider that gets it right? Reading the bottle is a good place to start. Here’s what to look for:This distinction means that the yeast used to turn the apple sugars into alcohol was collected from the fruits’ environment rather than grown in a lab. The resulting fermentation reflects the terroir and provides deeper, funkier flavors like lemon pith, strawberries, sage, or bleu cheese .
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