Eight things they claim are going on here…plus the apples they used as the base for the thing. Do I taste any of them in particular? (Other than the apples?) No I do not. Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Yes it is. I am still pretty new to cider, but I can imagine no better entrée to the style than our very own Ash & Elm Cider Co. This is one of those places where even if I’m not totally on board with what they’re crafting, I can still appreciate that what they are crafting they are crafting well. And from time to time, what they are crafting well steps up and smacks me around a little bit to make sure I’m still paying attention. To wit—the Marigold Chai, which is harder to nail down out of a can than it was on draft in the taproom…but I’ve let this one can sit in my fridge for a bit. (And yes, if you’re scoring at home, that probably qualifies as journalistic ineptitude.) Regardless, it’s absolutely delicious. They’re charging too much—$8 for a 12-ounce pour of their house stuff and north of $8 for 12-ounce pours of seasonal stuff—so this isn’t a place I’m going to frequent the way I frequent Upland or Kismetic; but I’ll keep coming back, in part because my wife loves the place and in part because they have a couple of decent options on the food menu. And I’ll get better at talking about cider, too…eventually.
Until then, here’s a reminder that it’s same as it ever was here at the ol’ Blog-O-Rama…Mitch McConnell should be subjected to the same fate as Aunt Edna’s dog Dinky in the first National Lampoon’s Vacation film. Short of that, Merrick Garland should at least get to kneecap the stupid right-wing Kentucky inbred talking abortion.
And the days go by…
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