Sunday, 11/8/15 from 12-4pm
Lower East Side Cider Festival
Wassail
162 Orchard St. near Delancey St.
Manhattan
www.CiderWeekNY.com/events
Free admission
Part of Cider Week New York City
FACEBOOK EVENT
Cider Week, Wassail, and the Lower East Side BID is hosting the inaugural Lower East Cider Festival on Sunday, November 8, from noon-4pm.
This annual festival—free and open to the public—will showcase participating cider makers and apple growers from the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Long Island and NYC who will be pouring samples alongside restaurants like Huertas NYC, Northern Spy Food Co., Back Forty West and more serving cider-friendly dishes like Basque sausage, oysters and grilled cheese to highlight the pairing qualities of cider.
In addition, the festival will feature a community cider press with rare and unique cider apples provided by Steve Wood, legendary grower and cidermaker of Farnum Hill Cider who has been growing cider apples for over 30 years. Jahil Maplestone of Descendant Cider Co., NYC’s first licensed urban cidery, will grind and press the apples into juice for a lucky few who have pre-purchased a gallon to take home and ferment. Brooklyn homebrew shop, Bitter & Esters will provide everything else budding cidermakers will need to make cider, including a copy of April White and Steve Wood’s Apples to Cider: How to Make Cider at Home.
Farnum Hill Cider, Eve's Cidery, Eden Ice Cider, Slyboro Ciderhouse andFoggy Ridge Cider will also be offering a $5 guided tasting from noon to 4pm in Wassail’s back room.
Heritage Radio Network will be onsite throughout the afternoon interviewing cider makers and festival attendees for future broadcast.
Family-friendly activities include:
● Apple Pie Contest judges: Raquel Pelzel, James Beard Award nominated cookbook author and former editor at Cook's Illustrated and Tasting Table, Izabela Wojcik, Director of Programming at the James Beard Foundation, and Kristen Miglore, Creative Director at Food52
● Apple Varietal Tasting Station
● Autumn Flavors Cotton Candy
● Face Painting
● Farm Photo Booth
● Pin-the-Worm on the Apple
● Make-Your-Own Caramel Apples Cart
● Shrunken Apple Head Carving Station
● Morris Dancing with The Bowerie Boys and the Ring O'Bells Morris
● Live fiddle, guitar, banjo and standup bass with Deb Tankard and Friends
Participating NY state orchards and cideries:
Angry Orchard
Aaron Burr Cider
Bad Seed Cider
Blackduck Cidery
Descendant Cider
Doc’s Draft Cider
Good Life Cider
Harvest Moon Cider
Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider
Nine Pin Ciderworks
Orchard Hill Cider Mill
Slyboro Cider House
Participating “Guest” Cideries:
Eve’s Cidery
Eden Ice Cider
Farnum Hill Ciders
Foggy Ridge Cider
Participating Restaurants:
Back Forty
Clawdaddy’s
Galli
Goodfella’s Pizza
Huertas
Northern Spy
The Queens Kickshaw
Wassail
Have fun,
Terresa =)
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