Tin Hat cidermaker Teddy Weber is stewarding a 25 year old orchard in Waitsfield Vermont. This musician by trade got his taste for cider in the UK during his music gigs while there. He teamed up with Sue and Gib Geiger who own the orchard that Teddy has been stewarding and where this chat takes place.

In this chat, Teddy and I walkabout in the orchard in Waitsfield and discuss the beginnings of Tin Hat, apple varieties, working with culinary apples for cider and culinary pears, cultured yeast vs wild yeast. His enthusiasm for apples is contagious.

Apples in this Chat

Northwestern Greening
Kerr Crabapple
Atlas
Barry Red
Honey Gold
Scott Winter
Golden Russet
Dolgo Crab
Lodi
Yellow Transparent
Red Astrican
Duchess of Oldenberg
Northern Spy

Pears

Nava
Luscious

Cidermaking techniques used

cyro-extraction - getting the juice directly from a frozen apple
cyroconcentration - the apple is pressed and then you freeze the juice

Tin Hat Ciders (currently)

Ole Pome

Traditional still cider, unfiltered, wild fermented, dry. 0% Residual Sugar. Aged in old neutral french oak barrels. Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in summer 2016.

Fipenny Bit

Effervescent, dry heritage cider from old heirloom apples. bottle conditioned. wild and cultured yeasts, blended from barrel and tank. Partial pétulant natural.

Farmhouse

Effervescent dry cider. bottle conditioned. Wild and cultured yeasts, secondary fermentation in bottle on champagne yeast.

Contact for Tin Hat

Cidermaker: Teddy Weber

Website: http://www.tinhatcider.com/

Telephone: 802-485-3993

Address:

PO Box 103

Roxbury, Vermont 05669

email: teddytweber@gmail.com

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