Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES 2/4/17

Text of StoryAsheville Citizen-Times: Poor Red Delicious apples. Once the darling of lunchboxes, they’ve become the bane of schoolkids everywhere. Against crisp-fleshed, rosy-cheeked Honeycrisps, they’ve fallen far out of fashion. But Bold Rock Hard Cider’s founder Brian Shanks, a steely-blue-eyed entrepreneur with 30-year roots in the apple growing and cider-making industry, does not discriminate. At his Mills River facility, opened in 2015, a new apple press crushes a broad variety of local apples to a pulp within spitting distance of a taproom.

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