April 2021
April’s Explorer Box features Crazed Grazers (Apricot Passion Fruit Sake Cider) and Luminous Ascent (Bergamot Tangelo Gose Cider ) a collaboration cider.
BOOK OF NOMAD | CRAZED GRAZERS
Our Spring series was inspired by exotic teas, Asian fruit, and sake. The process began by selecting a specific sake yeast strain that produces fruitier esters. After the strain was selected, we blended the yeast, cider, and Asian fruit until fermentation reached 14% ABV. Once the fermentation stalled out, we added a handful of loose tea leaves, along with dried fruit, and citrus. To achieve a complex flavor, we aged the blend in a chilled environment for one month. The finished sake cider was blended with our traditional wild yeast fermented cider and then canned.
SHARED UNIVERSE | LUMINOUS ASCENT
Luminous Ascent was made in collaboration with our Brooklyn-based buds at Folksbier. We drew inspiration from Folksbier’s “Glow Up” gose series that utilizes citrus and salt in each brew. We wanted our cider to “Glow Up” too, thus gave way to our version, a Bergamot Tangello Gose Cider. Folksbier likes to work with whole citrus fruit, so we zested and juiced whole Minneola Tangelos and Bergamot Oranges, then left the juice and zest to ferment with our sour cider and NY honey. Finished with a touch more honey and a pinch of sea salt and Luminous Ascent is ready to grace your taste buds.
TASTING
Are your ciders chilly? Do you have your tasting card and a pen handy? Taste through your fourth Cider Explorers Box with Kyle Sherrer, head cidermaker at Graft.
CIDER COCKTAIL
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