Cider tasting around.. Christmas?

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Message MrChopin P beers 4304 º places 100 º 21:55 Thu 5/12/2016 Mac and I were talking about this last tasting.. a cider / ice-cider tasting near Christmas ’16. The 6+ months would give people enough time to track down a couple bottles. It’s the perfect time of the year. And it’s a style we’ve -NEVER- seen a group do a focused tasting on. Opinions / ideas?
Message beastiefan2k P beers 5012 º places 294 º 23:34 Thu 5/12/2016 are new people invited? WA has a lot, a lot, a lot of cider
Message nimbleprop P beers 15419 º places 134 º 07:15 Fri 5/13/2016 Originally posted by beastiefan2k are new people invited? WA has a lot, a lot, a lot of cider Always. For the locals, the tasting will obviously include non-Ice Ciders and attendance at the tasting would NOT require you to bring an ice cider. We just thought that given all of our collective local, regional, national and international travels that if we all kept an eye out for ice ciders that we’d have a pretty nice collection to compare come Christmas.
Message GenDV138 beers 9211 º places 412 º 09:13 Fri 5/13/2016 Sign me up!

Message Drake P admin beers 21771 º places 1252 º 09:16 Fri 5/13/2016 I’ll save up a few in case this lines up with my winter break.
Message Travlr beers 33887 º places 4583 º 14:13 Fri 5/13/2016 Great idea. I have a ton of ciders already saved up (and a few are country ticks, for good or bad). btw, Franklin’s General Store has a couple of damn tasty ice ciders. But I call on the Canadian in our group to quit trying to burn the asphalt behind my house and pony up some good ice ciders.
Message MrChopin P beers 4304 º places 100 º 21:14 Fri 5/13/2016 If we do the usual 40+ bottles.. definitely gonna need a few non ciders to break that up. Most I’ve done in a "focused" tasting is about 25 peach sours and that needed a slow pace to avoid serious palate fatigue. I’d think regular ciders, cysers, and meads too.. great for comparison!
Message DCLawyer beers 3007 º places 236 º 13:03 Sun 5/15/2016 Great idea. Should probably get a bottle list going early, to avoid duplication of expensive/difficult-to-acquire ice ciders. Also, I quit smoking last week, so my tastebuds should be in prime shape by winter. And Radagast can stop sneezing.

Message radagast83 beers 12431 º places 427 º 13:36 Sun 5/15/2016 Sounds wonderful! The sneezing part. The cider part sounds good too!
Message MrChopin P beers 4304 º places 100 º 17:00 Sun 5/15/2016 Originally posted by DCLawyer Great idea. Should probably get a bottle list going early, to avoid duplication of expensive/difficult-to-acquire ice ciders. Also, I quit smoking last week, so my tastebuds should be in prime shape by winter. And Radagast can stop sneezing. Good to hear on the smoking. Good idea on the list too. Anyone proficient with Google docs take charge here
Message Travlr beers 33887 º places 4583 º 04:22 Mon 5/16/2016 Originally posted by MrChopin If we do the usual 40+ bottles.. definitely gonna need a few non ciders to break that up. Most I’ve done in a "focused" tasting is about 25 peach sours and that needed a slow pace to avoid serious palate fatigue. I’d think regular ciders, cysers, and meads too.. great for comparison! any recommendations for non-cider styles to bring? I believe I have a sour mead, whatever the hell that is, but what else?