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
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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