CIDER DEMANDoutstrips supply:It takes the right fruit to produce good hard cider

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Peter Ringsrud, whose family owns Snowdrift Cider Company in East Wenatchee, Washington, says he can't keep up with demand for the hard cider they produce. "We keep having calls from all over the United States for our cider and we're not serving Washington well, let alone the Northwest," he said during a cider workshop in Moses Lake last spring.Ringsrud began making cider on a small scale after taking a class with U.K. cider expert Peter Mitchell in 2004. He learned that his previous experiments had failed because he'd used dessert apples from his orchard that had no flavor once the sugar had fermented.