How About Them Apples?

How many apple varieties have you tasted in your lifetime? 5? 10? Probably not many more than the seven or eight varieties offered at your grocery. Did you know that there are more than 200 varieties of apples grown in within an hour's drive of Kalamazoo? Most of them you probably have never heard of, much less experienced.

During this webinar you'll learn a little about some of these apples and how they can make cider unlike anything you've tasted before. Not the cloyingly sweet ciders that come in cans, but elegant, dry, European-style ciders that are made like fine champagne and offer an earthy complexity that begs to go with food or star in your next celebration. Learn how Carriage House does it. Clue: It's all about the apples.

Paula Camp’s love of cider began when she interviewed the famed French chef, Jacques Pépin, and tried his homemade cider. From there, the former Chicago Tribune restaurant critic experimented with a cider recipe from Pépin. In 2016, Paula and her wife, Mary Connors, a former journalist and editor, together with family and friends, transformed their 137-year-old carriage house in Benton Harbor, Michigan into a modern-day craft cidery. In 2020, the Carriage House brand was born.

While the cidery is relatively new, the Carriage House cider-making process dates back centuries—used by Europeans and early American settlers.