
The San Diego Reader: Meet Julian CiderWorks
Homebrewer-run packaged cider operation sprouting in Apple-ville
By Brandon Hernández, July 11, 2014
Stan Sisson’s love affair with hard cider dates back even longer than his decades-plus homebrewing career. Inspired by his grandfather-in-laws forays into tangerine wine-making using bread yeast, Stan added champagne yeast to apple juice to create what turned out to be the world’s driest, most flavorless cider. Even adding sugar didn’t work. It just made it sweeter instead of bringing out the absent apple flavors. Funny enough, it took getting into brewing to master cider-making.
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