title: Cider: The practical guide to growing apples and making cider (Enthusiasts' Manual)
author:  Bill Bradshaw 
description: Bill Bradshaw is a freelance photographer and writer. He started photographing cider in 2004 as part of a documentary project. Now he travels internationally exploring cider cultures all over the world, he blogs at IAMCIDER.blogspot.com, and he judges at cider competitions, including the oldest and largest in the world (at the Royal Bath & West Show). He lives in Somerset, in the heart of cider-making country.
zlib_text: Praise for The New Cider Maker’s Handbook
  “Claude Jolicoeur’s The New Cider Maker’s Handbook is an invaluable resource for the serious home cider maker.
  However, serious professionals will also find a lot of great reference material, especially the sections devoted to
  apple varieties.”
  —Mike Beck, president, US Association of Cider Makers
  “This is the book so many craft cider makers have been waiting for: at once comprehensive, detailed, and
  authoritative. Planting an orchard? There are guidelines and suggestions. Need a mill or a press? There are plans
  and instructions. Trying to grasp the process, or to know how to measure? It’s there—sugar, acidity, pH, tannin,
  balance. Troubleshooting a problem? All the common shortcomings are covered. It really is ‘orchard to bottle,’
  with both guidance and technical background all along the way.”
  —Dick Dunn, president, Rocky Mountain Cider Association
  “J. M. Trowbridge wrote the first Cider Makers’ Hand Book in 1890. This modern take on the apple