Cider Calendar: Save The Date: Breezy Hill Orchard Annual Spring Wassail May 18, 2013
Where: Breezy Hill Orchard and Cider Mill
28 Center Rd, Staatsburg, New York, NY 12580
When: May 18, 2013
Tickets: $60 in advance $70. at gate. Under 18 $15, under 6 free! Tickets available online.
Wassailing, music, dinner, workshops and more.
More information HERE
Detroit Publishing Company Collection circa 1905
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection,
Steve Wood and the expert pruning team at Poverty Lane Orchards demonstrate and explain the how and why of pruning cider trees.
video via YouTube
Malus domestica: Red Gravenstein
SPORT:
Spontaneous somatic mutation and mutant cultivars.
Mutations are often called bud variations, bud mutations, somatic mutations, bud sports or briefly, sports.
Darwin (1868) defined bud variations as ‘all changes in structure or appearance which occasionally occur in full-grown plants in their flower-buds or leaf buds’ and in many cases ascribed these ‘changes’ to ‘spontaneous variability.’
source: Mutation Breeding: Theory and Practical Applications 1988
A. M. van Harten, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
SPORT:
A sudden variation in habit of growth or blossom color from the rest of the plant or others plants of its kind. Caused by a genetic change that may be accidental or spontaneous, or intentionally induced.
source: www.botany.com
SPORT:
In botany, a sport or bud sport is a part of a plant that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, or branch structure. Sports with desirable characteristics are often propagated vegetatively to form new cultivars that retain the characteristics of the new morphology.
source: wikipedia.org
See: Red Gravenstein. This variety is a sport (natural genetic mutation) of the Gravenstein apple.
Species: Malus domestica. Parentage: Sport of Gravenstein. Origin: Washington, United States.
source: orangepippin.com
Cider Calendar: Save The Date: Cider Summits 2013
SBS Imports / Cider Summit 2013.
The dates are set for the Portland, Oregon & Seattle, Washington 2013 Cider Summits:
Portland – Friday & Saturday, June 21st & 22nd.
Seattle – Friday & Saturday, September 6th & 7th
The Friday sessions will be 3 PM-8 PM and Saturday will be 12 Noon-6 PM .
Watch for updates at: www.cidersummit.com.
A few terms as defined by Farnum Hill Cider & Poverty Lane Orchards in the booklet Inside Cider: Fast Facts for Wholesalers, Retailers, and Aficionados from Farnum Hill CIder © copyright Poverty Lane Orchards 2011. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
Some USEFUL TERMS Up Front…
CIDER: An alcoholic beverage fermented from apples, as wine is an alcoholic beverage fermented from grapes. The cider-making & wine-making crafts have much in common. Prohibition devastated both in the U.S. but only cider lost its true name. In the U.S. ‘cider’ has only begun to reclaim its worldwide meaning.
APPLE JUICE: 1) a complex, perishable fluid pressed from raw apples. Once termed ‘sweet cider, it was re-dubbed in the U.S. during Prohibition. 2) a stabilized, clarified juice product sold year-round, usually made by diluting apple juice concentrate.
APPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE: a stable syrup reduced from raw juice. Heat & fans evaporate 90% of the water; filters remove suspended fruit solids. Concentrates used for cider may be generic (from any varieties available) select (made from specified apple varieties) or bitter-sweet (made from tannic cider apples).
HARD CIDER: 1) Our 20th-Century redub of ‘cider’, a word we grafted onto ‘apple juice’, previously called ‘sweet cider.’ Of course, ‘hard’ has long meant ‘alcoholic’. 2) HARD CIDER is also a Federal tax status that lets high-volume ciders under 7% abv. pay beer-tax rates. Above 7% abv, ciders pay wine excise tax.*
*Ed. Note: See CIDER Act press release post for information on proposed changes to current tax regulations.
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