For the first time the annual incorporates details of the leading cider makers.

Two years ago the mill stopped pressing apples for other cider makers, in part because of health concerns.

Eight generations of the Chevallier family stand behind the cider maker.

Virtually all cider makers agree on that, but there the accord ends, and each maker has his or her own recipe.

The Bronsons, as is typical of many cider makers, do not press their own apples.

By combining many apples with different characteristics, cider makers achieve complexity.

"I had to go to England and talk to cider makers there."

EX606s are routinely sent out to all registered cider makers.

In 2008, some 40 cider makers were producing more than 100 apple-based alcoholic beverages.

Meanwhile the cider maker is preparing for future growth in demand.it's just finished planting a million young apple trees.