Core to our mission at Tap the Admiral is preserving and promoting the apple culture of Sonoma County and beyond. Locally, we have had the privilege of using Slow Food Russian River’s free apple press as both pressers and volunteers. The free apple press, a seasonal service staffed exclusively by volunteers, is one small way through which the local apple agriculture is sustained and supported in our county

Until relatively recent history, apples weren’t for eating. In fact, they were often too bitter to just munch on. Instead, for thousands of years, people would press them for the juice and leave it to ferment, letting it bubble away until it turned into boozy hard cider,