Craft cider is a few years behind craft beer in popularity—but if Rob Brosofsky of Provincetown’s Shoal Hope Ciderworks has his way, the future is going to be all about apples. “It’s a great crossover drink,” he explains. “And it’s my obsession now!” The Outer Cape seems to agree, as more and more bars and restaurants are stocking bottles and kegs of the company’s four signature ciders: Monument (made with brown sugar), Honey Baby (made from honey from cranberry bogs), Empty Barrel (aged in craft whiskey barrels), and Little Tart. Everything about Shoal Hope is local—including the name (Captain Bartolomew Gosnold first called Cape Cod “Shoal Hope,” until he started catching fish!). “It’s never just been about cider,” says Brosofsky. “It’s always been about cider in Provincetown.”

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