Double Hill Cidery teams up with UPEI to hunt for the perfect apple
CBC
Brandon Vriends tends to shy away from buying apples at the grocery store — which is completely understandable given the fact that he bites into about 20 apple varieties every day in the great outdoors.
"I'll bite into it and I'll go, 'Huh, that's very flavourful, or that's very dry,'" said Vriends, a fourth-year biology student at UPEI.
"An apple you bite into and it kinda makes you gag or want to vomit because it's so sour, or just leaves your mouth so dry you can't swallow, are actually the ideal cider apples."
While dessert apples are typically sweet, shiny and polished, that's not the type Vriends is looking for. Instead, he is teaming up with a local cidery for a research project that involves scouring the Island for wild apples that are more unpredictable, often a little banged up but make for delicious cider.
"Our mission is to find that perfect tree," said Sebastian Manago, the owner of Double Hill Cidery.
"What I'm most excited about is to get that unique flavour of cider that we can go to the cider competitions all across the world and say, 'This is a unique cider made from unique varieties in a unique method from P.E.I.'"
In a cidery so full of apples that the cool air already smells like pie — the so-called "perfect one" still doesn't exist.
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