Cidre flows
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This event is dedicated to cider, cidre, sidra or how ever you would like to call a beverage prepared by fermentation of apple juice. The fallowing description is for Cidre Flows run by František Algoldor Apfelbeck.
Ideology&Selection The aim of this event is both to educate people about this product in a nice and socially friendly environment and sell the product. First part of the event is a slide presentation on the subject of cider from orchards, harvest, processing, ways of fermenting and more. It takes around an hour. Second part is guided tasting. I provide a high quality selection focusing on "typical" products plus I add some really special samples depending what I've available. At the core of the tasting are French ciders, especially the Normandie region and partly Bretagne. Concerning geography I generally have at least one sample North of Spain, Andalusia or Basque. There is cider from England, as being Czech I try to have there one from my country too and I like to include at least one German apfelwine, the rest depends what interesting samples I've available. From the point of view of style of production I'm trying to offer for tasting the most complicated "natural ciders" made from cider apples, they are mostly bio/organic, nothing added, not filtered, most of them secondary fermented in bottle (prise de mousse naturelle). That would be the highest end. It is hard to make whole tasting in quality like this, so I've also other good quality ciders which may be for example filtered, some enzymes added etc. I always like to have some flavoured ciders, mostly done by me, like raspberry cider, honey cider etc. I do like to include one or two poirés (perry) into the selection, it happens quite often that it is the first poiré which people had in their life. To finish the tasting I like to have at least one or two cider related products like pommeau, calvados or vinegar.
Style This is a guided tasting. First I talk a bit about history and basic facts about cider. After that I explain how to evaluate the product properly. This means the colour, proper manner of aroma evaluation and tasting. We used proper "closed" glasses by the way. Concerning the products we start with the extra-bruts and we go in the direction of increasing sweetness towards bruts, demi-secs and douce. By the end we taste some special cider related products. I do my best to post info about ciders which we taste, so you can more easily find the product which you liked.
Most Frequent Candidates Here you can find some tips, ciders which I either liked or I still do introduce at my tastings. Not all of them are always "on" but several of them are core members of the tasting. It changes of course with time to reflect the seasonality and the specificity of the product.
List of Ciders
| Cidre Name | Producer | Amount | Country of origin | Person Trafficking it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opiédumur Lemasson | Cidrerie Lemasson | Le Vaucher, 50570 Cametours, Normandie, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Top batch of the year, 5% alc. brewer Damien Lemasson, produced at la Ferme du Vaucher, bottle fermented. |
| Le Paf | La Ferme du Vastel | 6 Le Hameau Vastel, Tuerthéville-Bocage, 50630, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Demi-sec, bio, high quality, hand picked, wild fermented, season 2014, bottle fermented. |
| Le Grosse Brute | La Ferme du Vastel | 6 Le Hameau Vastel, Tuerthéville-Bocage, 50630, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Cidre which reminds old style traditional farmer cidre which is hard to come by these days with slide acetic volatile, 5% alc, bottle fermented. |
| Cidre du Pays de Quimperle | Des Bouteilles à l'Àmère | Marc Frocrain & Isabelle Richard, Vieux village du Kérou, 29 360 Clohars-Carnoët, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Really nice cider from Bretagne, Finistère, small high quality production. |
| Extra Brut | Les Vergers de la Chapelle | Les Vergers de la Chapelle, 36 Route de Cantepie, 50500 Auvers, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Extra brut millésime 2015, organic, smaller production, gold medial in it's category in Cidre Cottentin 2019 competition, bottle fermented. |
| Brut | Algoldor, Cidrerie Jara | Val de Saire, Valcanville, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Brut, organic, hand picked, wild fermentation, millésime 2017, bottle fermented. |
| Black Fox Cider | Dunkertons Organic Cider | London Rd, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham GL52 6UT, United Kingdom | 500 ml??? | Algoldor | Medium dry, sparkling, 7% alc. winner of our cidre flows at EMF2018 in UK. |
| Bio sidro allo Zenzero e mela | Floribunda | Strada Principale 78, 39025 Naturno - Alto Adige, Italia | 75 cl | Algoldor | I would say brut, with very nice flavour of ginger, added honey, 6% alc. no sulphates added, bottle fermented. |
| Poiré Domfront | Pacory, Ferme des Grimaux | Les Grimaux, 61350 Mantilly, Basse Normandie, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Fourth generation of cider and poiré makers, Domfront regional poiré (one of my favourits). 4% alc, bottle fermented. |
| Cidronoix | Maison Rouge | Mathias Faurie, Molières, Périgord, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Interesting cider from South of France with marination of walnuts. |
| Guillevic | Cidrerie du Pays d'Auray | Yves Maho, Lieu dit Kervihern, 56550 Locoal Mendon, France | 75 cl | Algoldor | Nice, sweeter style of guillevic, prise de mousse naturelle. |
| Kliment Cidre Brut 2014 | Cidrerie Kliment | Cidrerie Kliment Všenory, Na Návsi 37, 252 31, Praha-západ, Czech Republic | 75 cl | Algoldor | Cidre brut made in French style but from Czech aples, 5.4% alc, bottle fermented. |
| Bjor Vikingcider med mjødurt | Balholm | Balholm, Villavegen 14, 6899 Balestrand, Norway | 75 cl | Algoldor | Cidre with honey and meadowsweet (Filiopendula ulmaria) 14% alc. |
| Euskal Sagardoa | Bereziartuasagardoa | Bere-Aran Extea - Ipparalde Bidea 16, 20115 - Astigarraga (Gipuzkoa), Spain | 75 cl | Algoldor | Sidra natural, made 100% from apples from Basque County, volatile acidity: 1.5-2, 6% alc. |
| Stassen Cider | Stassen | Stassen SA, Rue de Kan 7, 4880 Aubel, Belgium | 75 cl | Algoldor | Big producer in Belgium, 5% alc. |
| Odnasilder Rosé 2017 | Siidritalu | Tori Siidritalu, Jõesuu, 86802 Pärnu maakond, Estonia | 75 cl | Algoldor | Cidre rosé with Aronia, 5.8% alc. |
| Suchý Cider | Tátův Sad | V Líšnici 17, Praha – západ, PSČ 56184 (probably), Czech Republic | 500ml | Algoldor | Polosuchý cider, 6.2% alc. |