Cider Week Returns with Harvest Beer & Cider Sessions: Wide World of Cider

Steve Wood of Farnum Hill Ciders will be at Saturday's Wide World of Cider event.
Steve Wood of Farnum Hill Ciders will be at Saturday’s Wide World of Cider event.

Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to be co-hosting the official launch party for Cider Week NY: Harvest Beer & Cider Sessions this Saturday, October 19th from 1-4 p.m. We’ll have dozens of ciders in a walk-around tasting format. Your $50 ticket (available here) gets you the chance to hobnob with the cider makers from the region who are at the core of Cider Week’s mission, plus this year we’re adding in the ciders from the U.K., Spain and France, in addition to some great ciders from other regions across the U.S., all part of the Wide World of Cider!

Among the offerings will be:

  • Harvest Moon Cidery/Critz Farms Four Screw (on draught),
  • Virtue Sidra (on draught) with Greg Hall (who will be giving a special presentation at 6 p.m.),
  • Breezy Hill with Elizabeth Ryan,
  • Steampunkt (Oakes Winery),
  • Slyboro,
  • Aaron Burr with Andy Brennan,
  • Eden (Ice Ciders),
  • Naked Flock,
  • and Farnum Hill with Steve Wood (presentation at 4 p.m.),
  • Henney’s and Olivers (from U.K.),
  • Drouhin and Dupont (from France),
  • Spanish Sidra from Asturias region,
  • Others TBA.

On the beer side of things, we’ll have special fall brews (fresh hop and harvest beers) from Carton, Barrier, Bridge & Tunnel (join Rich Castagna at 3 p.m. for a special beer seminar), along with other brewers who will be in attendance. Your ticket to Cider Sessions grants you free admission to the post-event talks with Steve, Rich and Greg!

And if it’s a more intimate gathering you prefer, be sure to get your ticket to the Vermont Sail End of Cider Week Dinner (with beer/cider option) on October 28th. Vermont Sail Freight will be coming down the Hudson with our order on Sunday, and we’ll be cooking up this farm-to-ship-to-chef prix fixe dinner the next day. It doesn’t get fresher than this! We hope you’ll join us for the 3rd Annual Cider Week NY (all our events are listed here).