We’re drawing closer to the Craft Malt Conference 2023! The event is being held in Portland, Maine, from March 16 to March 18, 2023, and Jesse Bussard, Executive Director of the Craft Maltsters Guild, is back with a couple of friends for another Pre-Show! Meet Rob Arnold, President of Advanced...

What you missed in the latest episodes of HRN’s cider podcast!

As extreme weather events become increasingly common, how will apples fare? Will the taste of cider evolve? We return to the labs at Cornell University to get a crash course from our favorite pomologist in apple genetics, biodiversity, and climate change. Find out how studying (and growing) historic apple varieties...

Hard Core takes a bite out of the native crabapple, visits a vault, explores Midwestern cideries, and embraces eclectic flavors.

On Meat and Three, understand how food policy affects everyone - from children and families to street vendors and farmers.

This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy is highlighting a new variety of New York state barley, following it from development at Cornell University to utilization in breweries across NY. On the show this week, Jimmy welcomes Paul Leone from the NY State Brewers Association in Rochester NY; Jason Havens...

By Kat Johnson Any serious cider drinker should take the journey to Ithaca, New York to explore the dozens of cideries that call the Finger Lakes region home. As HRN embarked on our Hard Core journey, documenting the revival of American cider, we spent a weekend enjoying Fingerlakes Cider Week...

In this episode, we’re looking at the science behind cider making and apple growing. We start with a chemistry lesson on fermentation and assess how microscopic organisms affect cider’s taste. Then we pay a visit to Cornell University to explore the cutting edge of horticulture, where scientists seeking to increase...

by Kat Johnson As the Heritage Radio Network team embarked on a six-episode journey to cover the revival of American cider-making, conversations about history, terroir, and science often turned to where cider is going next. We traveled through the Finger Lakes region and Champlain Valley to document organic practices, high-density...

[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/sites/default/files/wp-uploads/2016/02/You-Know-What-They-Say-About-Big-Plates.mp3"][/audio] Subliminal clues surround every food choice we make. Whether that is plate size, who we are with, or the order in which we eat, we tend to eat more or less based on the context of the eating situation. Tune in to hear A Taste of the Past’s...