At Redbyrd Orchard we are currently working on a new project, developing a cider wheel to highlight and focus on the unique specific flavors and textures of cider. We created our first template for the cider wheel and tested it out alongside a cider release event at the Finger Lakes Cider House in March. This was a super fun event for us as the interest and curiosity of the cider wheel became obviously clear and worth our while. At that time […]
You can find Redbyrd Orchard Cider throughout the calendar of events for this cider celebration! Here’s a few highlighted specials… SUNDAY OCTOBER 9th, 11am-3pm REDBYRD ORCHARD OPEN HOUSE 4491 Reynolds Rd, Trumansburg, NY 14886 Join us for a tour of our biodynamic orchard and learn more about what goes into your bottle of Redbyrd Orchard Cider! For this one special day we’d like to invite you to come get to know our trees, sheep, geese, and family. We’ll have orchard walking tours with our […]
These three ciders are finally ready for you! Join us for a special Summer Release Tasting at the Finger Lakes Cider House, Sunday July 31 2-4:30pm.
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Please join us: April 9th, Saturday 2-5 pm at the Finger Lakes Cider House…. let’s drink some cider, y’all!!!! Our first three releases for this year are showing that even though 2015 was a year of big yield from the orchard, which tends to result in lower concentration and sugars in the fruit, the ciders are showing elegance in the glass. Our Workman Dry highlights apricot and tropical fruit on the nose and bright acidity. The Workman Semi-dry shows aromas of pears […]
*This piece first published on Finger Lakes Cider House website 11/24/15, written by Eric Shatt of Redbyrd Orchard Cider There is Art in cidermaking!! The decisions made along the way direct the outcome. The blend of apples planted, where they are planted, when to pick them, how long to sweat them, which ones to press together, how hard to press them, where to ferment the cider —-size and container, barrel or Stainless Steel, yeast, temperature, lees contact, aging, use of sulfites, bulk aging, blending, […]
****SCION WOOD of Redbyrd “Wild” Apples **** “Taming” (Grafting) Wild Seedling Apple Trees, propagating new cider varieties…spreading the Love! Wild seedling apple trees grow well around us in New York. We find them everywhere, in forests shaded by towering hardwoods, in abandoned fields transitioning from cropland to brush, and especially along hedgerows. Over the years of discovering, collecting, fermenting and grafting these trees it has become more and more apparent that their value is not only a complex component to cider but […]
We’re busy here at Redbyrd these days; preparing the press for another season of apples coming down from the hopper, getting our Ag&Markets required washing machine hooked up, helping with the planning of another fantastic FLX Cider Week upcoming in October, and of course, beginning to pick those absolutely gorgeously beautiful apples! So busy, in fact, that rather than craft our own musings on harvest, we will borrow from our dear friend and fellow organic apple orchardist, Chris Negronida of West Haven […]
