Beer Research Guide: Cider

Things to know

• Search for "brandy" in newspapers
• There are oral histories with the founders of Oregon's 2 Towns and Apple Outlaw
• Check Oregon Digital: this is where we provide access to our scanned materials, including the publications with information about cider research and consumption at OSU.

Recommended publications

• Bieller, Mr Barry, and Eric Douglas. "Craft Cider in British Columbia: A Comparative Study of Regional Cider Production and Regulatory Environments." (2014).
• Brown, Sanborn C. 1982. Wines & beers of old New England: a how-to-do-it history. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England.
• Buratti, James Paul. "A Geographic Framework for Assessing Neolocalism: The Case of Texas Hard Cider." (2019).
• Burns, Eric. 2004. The spirits of America: a social history of alcohol. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
• Carlstrom, Paige. "Hard Cider Production in Small Scale Wineries." (2015).
• Caswell, John E. "The Prohibition Movement in Oregon: Part 1, 1836-1904." Oregon Historical Quarterly 39, no. 3 (1938): 235-261.
• Duruz, Willis P. "Notes on the Early History of Horticulture in Oregon: With Special Reference to Fruit-Tree Nurseries." Agricultural History 15, no. 2 (1941): 84-97.
• Fabien-Ouellet, Nicolas, and D. Conner. "The identity crisis of hard cider." Journal of Food Research 7, no. 2 (2018): 54-68.
• Janik, Erika. 2011. Apple: a global history. London: Reaktion Books.
• Jordan, Jennifer. "Drinking Revolution, Drinking in Place: Craft Beer, Hard Cider and the Making of North American Landscapes." Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (2016).
• Hudson Jr, Joseph B. "Banks, Politics, Hard Cider, and Paint: The Political Origins of William Sidney Mount's 'Cider Making'." Metropolitan Museum Journal 10 (1975): 107-118.
• Kline, Carol, and Zachary D. Cole. "Craft cider tourism: Getting to the core of the matter." In Craft Beverages and Tourism, Volume 1, pp. 41-55. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017.
• Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A history. New York: Free Press, 1987. 
• Merwin, Ian A., Sarah Valois, and Olga I. Padilla-Zakour. "Cider apples and cider-making techniques in Europe and North America." Horticultural Reviews Westport, New York. (2008): 365.
• Miles, Carol A., Jacqueline King, Travis Robert Alexander, and Edward Scheenstra. "Evaluation of flower, fruit, and juice characteristics of a multinational collection of cider apple cultivars grown in the US Pacific Northwest." HortTechnology 27, no. 3 (2017): 431-439.
• Miles, Carol A., Travis R. Alexander, Gregory Peck, Suzette P. Galinato, Christopher Gottschalk, and Steve van Nocker. "Growing Apples for Hard Cider Production in the United States—Trends and Research Opportunities." HortTechnology 1 (2020): 1-8.
• Myles, Colleen C., Chris Holtkamp, Innisfree McKinnon, Vaughn Bryan Baltzly, and Colton Coiner. Chapter 2 "Booze as a public good? Considering how localized, craft fermentation industries make place for better or worse in Fermented landscapes: Considering how processes of fermentation drive social and environmental change in (un) expected places and ways. (2020). 
• Norton, Anthony Banning. The Great Revolution of 1840: Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. AB Norton & Company, 1888.
• Peyton, Jane. February 13, 2019. "The history and origins of cider." Great British Chefs.
• Proulx, Annie, and Lew Nichols. Cider: Making, using & enjoying sweet & hard cider. Storey Publishing, 2003.
• Reedy, David, Will C. McClatchey, Clifford Smith, Y. Han Lau, and K. W. Bridges. "A mouthful of diversity: knowledge of cider apple cultivars in the United Kingdom and northwest United States." Economic botany 63, no. 1 (2009): 2-15.
• Rowles, Kristin. "Processed apple product marketing analysis: hard cider and apple wine." (2000).
• Smith, S., and Pankaj Lal. "Hard Apple Cider in the New York Hudson Valley Region: A Tourism Study." Middle States Geographer 50 (2017): 28-38.
• "Study of Cider Making in France, Germany, and England, with Comments and Comparisons on American Work [with Data on Composition of Apples and Cider, by Selected Varieties and Country]. Congressional Document." 1903.
• Stursa, Scott. Distilled in Oregon: A History & Guide with Cocktail Recipes. Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
• Thirsk, Joan, ed. The agrarian history of England and Wales. CUP Archive, 1985.
• Victor, Frances Fuller. All Over Oregon and Washington: Observations on the Country, Its Scenery, Soil, Climate, Resources, and Improvements, with an Outline of Its Early History. Also Hints to Immigrants and Travelers Concerning Routes, the Cost of Travel, the Price of Land, Etc. JH Carmany & Company, 1872.
• Warner, Jessica. All or Nothing: A Short History of Abstinence in America. Emblem Editions, 2010.
• Watson, Ben. Cider, hard and sweet: history, traditions, and making your own. The Countryman Press, 2013.

The Pacific Northwest Extension (Washington State University, Oregon State University, University of Idaho) published the report "Hard Cider Production & Orchard Management in the Pacific Northwest" in 2010, which includes historical background, as well as information about cider making and orchard management.