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Hood River News, Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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FOX TAIL cidermaker Justin Cardwell, left, and owner Bob Fox bottle and box Sir Isaac, which shows
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By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
The newest local bottled
cider is Sir Isaac, made with
local apples and wine yeast,
from Fox Tail Ciders in
Odell.
Owner Bob Fox and cider
maker Justin Cardwell
worked with Mobile Bottling
Solutions from Bend last
week to bottle and box up
cases of 22-ounce bottles, set
to retail at about $6. Look for
Sir Isaac at local stores and
bottle shops.
Fox Tail began its cidery
and café operation two years
ago on Highway 35 at Ehrck
Hill Road. Fox and Cardwell
decided to go with Sir Isaac
(6.2 ABV) for their first bot-
tling, given its balance of
sweet and tart, appealing to a
variety of palates.
Sir Isaac debuted about two
months ago. “When we first
brought it out we had score
cards, and this one was get-
ting fives out of five. We said,
‘this is the one we bottle’,” Fox
said.
The name was one Fox and
friends came up with, over
cider, but it has no particular
historical or agricultural
meaning. “We just thought the
words went together well and
had a good sound,” Fox said.
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tling: either of two standbys,
the peach-based Fuzzy Haven
or Docklands, a double-fer-
mented Irish-style cider.
Fox has juggled a changing
tap list of ciders employing
apples, pears, raspberries,
peaches, apricots and other
fruits; the current list in-
cludes “Strawberry Rheum”
with rhubarb, and blackber-
ry-infused Briarberry.
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Cider Central will alter-
nate, like a rotating tap, with
The Ale List as Hood River
News chronicles the expand-
ing array of locally-made liba-
tions and locations. Fox Tail
and the two taphouses listed
below, bring to eight the num-
ber of cideries and taphouses
in Hood River County and
Mosier that are solely or large-
ly dedicated to the creation
and sampling of cider.
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CIDER HOUSES SET TO OPEN
Two new cideries are due to
open this summer and fall in
Hood River.They are Crush Cidery
on Wasco Street and ‘12 Ciders’
on the Heights.
First to open will be Crush,
owned by Sam Bailey and cider
maker Guntram Jordan, a native
of Germany, in mid-July at 1020
Wasco, next to New York City Sub
Shop.
“We will start out with as
many local ciders from the Hood
River area as we can get for the
taproom,” Bailey said. “We will
be working on the cider produc-
tion contiguously to the opening.
It will take a bit longer for the
production area. We will be in
production for this harvest sea-
son.”
In the works on the Heights,
poised as “The 12 Ciders Tap-
room,” is a collaborative by
cider makers John Metta, Jeff
Nicol, Chip Dickenson and Ste-
fan Gumperlein, located on
12th Street next to Pine Street
Bakery. They plan to open their
doors in the fall, and make and
serve cider. (Gumperlein has
Ovino deli, and will continue
that business.)
“Expect “lots of small barrels
and special one offs,” Metta said.
“Our volume is low, everything
will be different and a little bit
special,” Metta said.
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