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WEBVTT THAT'S RIGHT.VERMONT CIDER WEEK.VERMONT CIDER WEEK.PROBABLY THE BEST WE CAN ALL OFTHE WEEKS IN VERMONT.CHRIS NELSON JOINS US NOW, PARTOWNER OF CITIZENS CIDER.THE LAST HIT WE TALKED ABOUTWHAT THIS WEE -- WHAT IS GOINGON IN THE FUN THINGS THAT YOUCAN DO BUT NOW I WANT TO TALKABOUT THE HISTORY OF CITIZENSCIDER BECAUSE PROBABLY ONE OFTHE GREATEST PLACES IN ALL OFVERMONT.HOW DID YOU GUYS, BUT THIS IDEA?A LOT OF TIMES CIDER -- WHEN IHAD IT IT WAS SWEET AND OVER THETOP AND NOW YOU GUYS HAVE MADEIT THIS SPECIALTY CRAFT THING.CHRIS: THANKS FOR AL THAT.I AGREE THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OFTHE GREATEST WEEKS YOU CAN HAVEHERE.AND CITIZEN SIDE ARE WE LIKE SAY THAT EVERY WEEK INSIDER WEEK-- EVERY WEEK IS CIDER WEEK.HOW DO WE END UP IN THIS PLACEWHERE WE ARE NOW?REALLY IT STARTED WITH A DREAM.IT WAS MYSELF AND MY TWOPARTNERS, RYAN HOMES AND JUSTINHOW ABOUT.WE HAD THIS IDEA THAT WE CANMAKE CRAPS CIDER AND WE DID NOTKNOW IF IT WAS GOING TO PAN OUT.IT WOULD PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONTOF THE NEXT AND STARTED PRESSINGAPPLES AND FORMING RELATIONSHIPSWITH PEOPLE.BUILDING THIS DREAM TOGETHER.JENNIFER: WHAT YEAR DID YOU GUYSSTART?CHRI WE CAME TOGETHER AROUND2010 TO MAKE OUR FIRST TESTBATCH THROUGH THE COMPANY FORMEDIN 2011 AND ACTUALLY HAD OURFIRST RELEASE PARTY AT THEFARMHOUSE IN 2012 IN FEBRUARY.WE'VE BEEN SELLING CIDER FORABOUT FIVE YEARS. JENNIFER: INJUST A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD YOU GUYSARE DISTRIBUTING ACROSS VERMONT.CHRIS: WE ARE THROUGHO VERMONT.WE ARE INTO ALL OF NEW ENGLANDAT THIS POINT.ALSO IN A LOT OF PARTS OF NEWYORK INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY.MAKING OUR WAY SOUTHWARD.JENNIFER: COMING UP IN THE NEXT

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