Wrangletown Cider Company, Pat Knittel
Series Title
Food For Thought
Contributor
Jennifer Bell, Host
Pat Knittel, Interviewee
Jessica Eden, Engineer
Episode Description
It’s the label that will catch your eye — so many new start up hard cider companies it’s hard to keep up. A couple of women wrangling in the streets — well, if you know your Humboldt County history you know that Freshwater was once called Wrangletown. Story goes there were a couple of women who had taken to brawling in the streets of the town. Now why did we ever decide that Freshwater was a better name for that town?
Pat Knittel, with a heavy duty background producing wine in Napa and Sonoma — wanted to come home to Wrangletown — in Humboldt County where she was raised. And she realized that hard cider was her path home (she still makes wine – North Story Wines– but a gal’s got to branch out, right?) So there we were at about 10:30 a.m. tasting up the hard cider which was lovely and dry — pairing meals with hard cider is the next new thing.
One last word of advice (besides don’t start sipping hard cider at 10:30 a.m.) — if you have only tasted those mass produced hard ciders and think they taste like bubbly ultra sweet apple juice with an edge — give Wrangletown a try! You’ll be doing cider pairings instead of wine — a whole new world will open up, and it’s a delicious one.
Broadcast Date
2016
Genre/Subject
Apples, Hard Cider, Wine
Publisher
KHSU
Filename
FFT_Wrangletown_Cider.mp3
Language
English
Media Type
Article
Digital Format
Audio/MP3
File Size
21.3 MB
Duration
00:09:17
Generation
Copy
Collection
KHSU
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Recommended Citation
"Wrangletown Cider Company, Pat Knittel" (2016). Food for Thought. 62.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/foodforthought/62