Is this Cider’s Moment?

Dear Client: Your editor escaped the winter storm in Texas this week to head to a place much, much colder – Chicago – to cover the American Cider Association’s annual CiderCon event. We haven't covered CiderCon in many years, so we weren’t sure what to expect. The cider community -- characterized as an “island of misfit toys” by one attendee, as they’re not really brewers, vintners, or distillers – welcomed us with open arms on kickoff night at a cider