  Ice cider manufacturing growing in Canada   From the Canadian
Press news service:  Bittersweet heritage apples like Kings,
Gravensteins, Pippins and Winesaps still grow in backyards and
orchards around Victoria, B.C. But instead of dropping to the
ground to rot, many of the crops are being given a new lease on
life.  Enterprising couple Kristen and Bruce Jordan are using
them to make a variety of different fermented ciders at Sea
Cider, their farm and ciderhouse in Saanichton, a rural area
outside the province’s capital city.  They aren’t alone. Cider
making is catching on in Canada. In Quebec, several producers
are making ice cider, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting
the juice of apples that have been left to freeze in winter.  •
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