After a run of autumnal seasonals, News & Brews tackled a different fall flavor this week — cider.

With apple picking time upon us and stores stocked with cider (alcoholic and otherwise), we opened a four-pack of Columbus-based Mad Moon’s Eat a Peach. Dry, sweet, fruited or flavored, we talk personal preferences, interesting impressions and why craft cider is in comparatively short supply versus beer and other alcohol.

Did you hear Columbus Brewing Co.’s taproom finally opened? We discuss that (again).

We also tease a few notable happenings this upcoming week in the world of local beer. Namely that Wolf’s Ridge Brewing Co. and Land-Grant Brewing Co. both will hold anniversary parties this weekend and, in a bid to make the festivities both more convenient and safer for fans, the Short North Trolley Co. will be shutting patrons between both sites for free that day.

This week’s episode also is the introduction of Hayleigh Colombo, the newest member of the Columbus Business First team (and thusly News & Brews as well), who sits in and shares her love of cider and several stories of Indiana’s quirky alcohol laws.