Subject: Cider Digest #2060, 19 February 2017 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:12:23 -0700 (MST) From: cider-request@talisman.com Cider Digest #2060 19 February 2017 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum Contents: CiderCon Chicago ("Mike Beck") NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to cider@talisman.com. Use cider-request@talisman.com for subscribe/unsubscribe/admin requests. Archives of the Digest are available at www.talisman.com/cider#Archives Digest Janitor: Dick Dunn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CiderCon Chicago From: "Mike Beck" Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:04:41 -0500 The USACM just finished their annual convention late last week and we had a really grand time. The educational sessions were well received and professional. The US cider producers have a thirst for knowledge on other cider regions and their cider. This year the focus was on the French producing regions of Normandy and Brittany & we had a an excellent set of dignitaries in the following, 2017 - Featured Speakers: Ghisilaine Davy from Cidrerie Daufresne (Poire/Perry) Dominique Le Brun from Cidres Le Brun (Keeving) Guilliaume Drouin from Christian Drouin (Calvados) Our guests provided us with very professional, well crafted presentations to go along with some of the world's best cidre, poire and calvados. We so much appreciate our presenters to have take time away from their own cideries and make a long journey to the United States. Furthermore, we hope they got as much out of it as we did. To USACM members that could not attend we hope to have all presentations downloaded to our website in a few weeks. I would like to also thank the rest of our presenters and also our Trade Show vendors as well. You all help make a great conference. Cider Summit: the public tasting event that happens right after CiderCon was once again a sold out event and this years event also had a record number of ciders produced from outside of the United States. We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore in 2018 and hope you can attend. (Dates roughly similar - TBD) Please check out our Video that we produced that we used to open our proceedings. (sharing on your social media is appreciated) https://vimeo.com/203037204 (in the background of one my scenes is another cider maker, spot him and name and you get a gold star) Mike Beck USACM past president & CiderCon Chair ------------------------------ End of Cider Digest #2060 *************************