Fall/Autumn Question!

[akorosdc]

In college my roommate would get hers when going out to Shenandoah. She got a jug of "regular" unpasteurized cider and then one of hard cider that they fermented. She promised us that if it exploded she'd clean up the mess (it didn't, but the top blew off all the time).

[Alicia Bradley]

Another place I'm going to check out - Potomac Vegetable Farms in Vienna (with a bigger "production farm" in Purcellville) - someone on donrockwell.com said they used to sell the unpasteurized stuff:

Potomac Vegetable Farms

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by Alicia Bradley

Yeah, I know we're still in the middle of summer, but I want to make sure I ask this before another fall season passes us by (plus, I hate hot weather and am already dreaming of jumping in piles of leaves on smoky-scented NoVA afternoons) -

Where is the best place to get unpasteurized apple cider around here? (Preferably near Alexandria, but if, say, there's a place with famous unpasteurized cider out in western Fairfax Co. or such, I'd love to hear about it, too.)

(And if you tell me it's dangerous to drink, I will just laugh and not reply to your post. )

I just drove past a farm in Purcellville that had it. It's a pyo farm on Colonial Hwy. If you come off rt 7 onto rt 287, turn left toward Purcellville. Right at the light on Colonial Hwy and it's almost immediately on your left. Just found the website: Crooked Run Orchard They had a sign out yesterday that advertised unpasteurized apple cider.

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by Alicia Bradley

Another place I'm going to check out - Potomac Vegetable Farms in Vienna (with a bigger "production farm" in Purcellville) - someone on donrockwell.com said they used to sell the unpasteurized stuff:

Potomac Vegetable Farms

I was at their stand in Purcellville on Sunday. I didn't see any cider but I wasn't looking for it either. I'll ask them when I'm there later this week.

[Alicia Bradley]

Originally Posted by Denton56

I just drove past a farm in Purcellville that had it. It's a pyo farm on Colonial Hwy. If you come off rt 7 onto rt 287, turn left toward Purcellville. Right at the light on Colonial Hwy and it's almost immediately on your left. Just found the website: Crooked Run Orchard They had a sign out yesterday that advertised unpasteurized apple cider.

Woo hoo! My Saturday's planned, then.

[Denton56]

Glad I could help! Head down the other way on RT 287 and stop at Sunset Hills Vineyard for a glass of wine. It's a beautiful place, well worth seeing. Beautiful views too. If the owners are around, Mike and Diane, they'll give you a tour and explain everything they did to renovate the place.
http://www.sunsethillsvineyard.com/

It's on route 287, between route 7 and route 9. Turn at the balloons!

[irvine]

Hill High Orchard in Round Hill, VA. I used to go here each fall, growing up. I just looked it up and it still exists! I was afraid Round Hill had since been swallowed by subdivisions.
You can still go apple picking there; great pies; cider; apple candy. (peanut soup also... I think.) Go here. you won't regret it.

And in the spring, many local farms have strawberry picking, but I don't remember that being all that fun.

[Alicia Bradley]

Sunset Hills Vineyard and Hill High Orchard both sound incredible - this is shaping up to be the nicest NoVA fall I've had yet (if I can get roomie to drive west on some three-day weekends)! *Happy dance*!!