{"id":664,"date":"2016-01-05T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solhbc.com\/index\/?p=664"},"modified":"2016-01-05T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:56:04","slug":"wines-and-ciders-and-beers-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solhbc.com\/index\/wines-and-ciders-and-beers-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Wines and Ciders and Beers, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Northville<\/a>

Northville Winery and Brewing Co.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday, December 7th we held our monthly club meeting at the Northville Winery and Brewing Company, Robb\u00a0Nelson was a great host and answered several of our club members questions. The Northville Winery originated\u00a0in 1982\u00a0in the Parmenter’s Cider Mill, \u00a0Rob and Carina Nelson (Robb’s parent’s) started making their own product\u00a0almost 10\u00a0years ago and they have been expanding and building on their success\u00a0ever since. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Northville Winery started making their own wine in the 1990’s followed by\u00a0Hard Cider in 2006 and\u00a0opened the\u00a0microbrewery in 2014. All the grapes and apples are brought in from the West side of Michigan with all the pressing done in the\u00a0cider mill and fermenting and bottling in the winery building. Every bottle is filled and labeled by hand. The winery produces several alcoholic wines, hard ciders, beer and will be\u00a0adding a small distillery soon!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SOLHBCYou could really tell that Robb is extremely passionate about what he does and\u00a0many of us were blown away that there was so much to know about making cider. Robb shared that the acidity of the fruit can really impact the flavor and fermentability of the cider. Sweeter desert apples like Honey Crisp or Gala are sweeter so tend to be more fermentable whereas early harvest apples and Jonathan variety apples tend to be more acidic with lower fermentable sugars\u00a0which results in them\u00a0having longer term stability once bottled. The first hard cider that Robb produced is what is now called Rockin’ Cock Hard Cider and is still one of his favorites and one of their best sellers.<\/p>\n

\"Beer<\/a>

Beer and Cider flight<\/p><\/div>\n

We were able to sample several of the ciders such as Rockin’ Cock, Half Nelson (hopped cider), Crimson Dew\u00a0and Blue River. Also two of the beer offerings that Robb has made\u00a0which included\u00a0Rock Me Hopadeus IPA and Stout Stout Let it All Out.<\/p>\n

Even though\u00a0the beer offering right now is small they will be expanding\u00a0that in the future but\u00a0The Northville Winery\u00a0and Brewing Co. has so much more to offer\u00a0as far as wine and\u00a0cider that it’s well worth the trip to check it out. You can find out more at their website, http:\/\/www.thenorthvillewinery.com <\/a>and you can see more photos from out club meeting in our photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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