A crude, wooden contraption delivers the sweetest nectar this time of year. The device now tucked away in a workshop at our family farm was working hard a few weeks ago to press the “ugly fruit” that ...

PUTNEY — Jack Maples, a cider maker at Green Mountain Orchard, pours a bushel of apples onto a machine that will wash them before grinding them during the cider-making process on Thursday, Sept. 24, ...

I sometimes have to remind my girlfriend, Maria, that cider and beer are different beverages. “So, what do we need to make the beer?” she asked a few weeks ago, while we discussed plans to press and ...