CIDERCRAFT Magazine, CIDERCRAFT Volume 9 2017
TALL BY A NDREA W ATTS TALES C ider is a beverage woven into the narrative of American history Among the supplies English colonists brought across the ocean were apple seeds to grow fruit for fresh eating and making their beloved drink Its reported President John Adams regularly consumed cider each morning and his successor Thomas Jeffersons orchards at Monticello in Virginia grew several apple varieties ideal for cidermaking notably the Virginia Hewes Crab and the Albemarle Pippin W J Rorabaugh author of The Alcoholic Republic An American Tradition wrote In fact so much cider was drunk that colonial Americans probably ingested more alcohol from that beverage than from their much more potent rum He also estimated the annual per capital consumption of hard cider was around 15 gallons or higher And during the 1840 presidential campaign Whig candidate William Henry Harrisons slogan campaigns referenced hard cider and log cabins So why did hard cider all but disappear from our drinking culture CIDERCRAFTMAG COM 55
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