HV Hard Cider Talk & Tasting – Putnam History Museum

#Ciderfacts #Applefacts

It takes approximately 30 – 40 apples to make a gallon of cider!

Love cider? New to cider? Or just curious about apples and cider history & heritage? Then this event will satisfy all of your curiosity!

Saturday, Feb.5th, 5 pm.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hudson-valley-hard-cider-talk-tasting-virtual-tickets-234236667177
All proceeds benefit the Putnam History Museum.

#ciderfacts: The first recorded references to cider date back to Roman times; in 55 BCE Julius Caesar found the Celtic Britons fermenting cider from native crabapples.
#ciderfacts: In colonial America, cider was the most common beverage, and children even drank it in a diluted form. In many places, water was potentially dangerous to drink and most homesteads had an apple orchard. Pressing and fermenting fresh apple juice was the easiest way to preserve the large fruit harvest.
#applefacts: Did you know that apples display “extreme heterozygosity,” meaning that they produce offspring that look nothing like their parents. If you plant an apple seed, eventually you’ll get a tree producing fruit that looks and tastes entirely different from its parent.