2012 vs 2013 Lost Orchard: check it! It should come as no surprise that I drink quite a bit of cider. I usually look for the obscure, small-batch, orchard-based ciders. But lately I've realized I should keep tabs on the mass-market and more mainstream producers, to see what's going on. Recently I've tried some new options from them, and they were all right, no defects, crushable, apple-y, some sweetness even though they were marketed as dry. I'm not so ambivalent about th [...]