2024 'Space Is The Place' juniper berry cider
Mixed Fruit Coferment
NY - Hudson River Region
$17.00 / 375 mL Bottle
- Alcohol 7%
A dry, still cider with foraged juniper berries. I love this cider, and rarely get to make it, as juniper berries are often biennial. Notes of ripe tomatoes, ripe nectarines, and of course, cedar. Imagine walking through a conifer forest on an early winter morning as snow is falling, but vegetation is still peaking through on the ground.
Juniper berries aren’t actual berries. They’re cones for the genus Juniperus, and I foraged them from Juniperus virginiana, more commonly known as the Eastern Red Cedar tree. They’re also tiny, measured in mere millimeters, so even when I do get to make this cider, I don’t make a lot. This batch was literally only 6 gallons. I could have blended it out with more cider, but I just love the punchy flavor so much, which I think is enhanced by my crushing up the berries after I pick them so the small amount of sugars in them can ferment.
I named it after the song Space Is the Place by Sun Ra, which popped into my head one day as I watched the little iridescent blue berries bounce up and down in the glass carboy they were fermenting in.
Maker Name
Nika Carlson
Greenpoint Cidery is a handcrafted, natural hard cider coming to you from Hudson, NY via Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Fermented from all New York apples, it is 100% dry, aged on the lees, unfiltered, and in a farmhouse style. Each cider is hand made traditionally in small batches with minimal intervention. Any added ingredients in limited release ciders are made with elements foraged from the surrounding land. Because it’s made by hand, each batch, and each bottle, is unique.
Greenpoint Cidery is owned and run by Nika Carlson. Carlson fell in love with cider as a Brooklyn bar owner, and inspired by the Spanish, French, and traditional American cider she adored, transitioned to orchardist and cider maker (and designer (and distributor (and keg cleaner))). She is based in Brooklyn, and grows apples and makes cider in Hudson, NY.
Fermented from all New York apples, it is 100% dry, aged on the lees, unfiltered, and in a farmhouse style. Each cider is hand made traditionally in small batches with minimal intervention. Any added ingredients in limited release ciders are made with elements foraged from the surrounding land. Because it’s made by hand, each batch, and each bottle, is unique.
Greenpoint Cidery is owned and run by Nika Carlson. Carlson fell in love with cider as a Brooklyn bar owner, and inspired by the Spanish, French, and traditional American cider she adored, transitioned to orchardist and cider maker (and designer (and distributor (and keg cleaner))). She is based in Brooklyn, and grows apples and makes cider in Hudson, NY.
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