IT’S FALL, AND your orchards are bare. There’s a nip in the air already, and you’ve got your glass casks of apple juice sitting in the cellar, letting time and the new world’s wild yeasts slowly turn ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

While the American colonists drank hard cider like their modern-day counterparts swill Pepsi and Coca-Cola, for some, cider’s relatively mild 4 to 6 percent alcohol concentration just wasn’t alcoholic ...