barrel aging

Alpenfire Orchards and Cidery is a family-owned organic estate cidery based just outside Port Townsend, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. It grows, presses, and ferments English and French bittersweet and bittersharp cider apples in its organic estate orchard, handcrafting cider, pommeau, and vinegars. The cidery describes itself as the West coast's first organic estate cidery and offers a tasting room at its estate orchard.

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American Vinegar Works is a small team of craft vinegar makers producing raw, barrel-aged, naturally fermented vinegars. They revived a production method from 1823, rebuilding 19th-century fermentation equipment in partnership with local universities. Their vinegar works is housed in the blacksmith shop of an old textile mill complex in New England on the National Register of Historic Places, and all vinegars are made, aged and bottled in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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custom equipment rebuildinghand bottlingslow fermentationsmall-batch production