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Cider jugs. Somerset, England. Cider (/ ˈ s aɪ d ər / SY-dər) is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples. [1] Cider is widely available in the United Kingdom (particularly in the West Country) and Ireland. The UK has the world's highest per capita consumption, as well as the largest cider-producing companies.
Cider Making, painting by William Sidney Mount, 1840–1841, depicting a cider mill on Long Island. The history of cider in the United States is very closely tied to the history of apple growing in the country. Most of the 17th- and 18th-century emigrants to America from the British Isles drank hard cider and its variants.
A cider mill, also known as a cidery, is the location and equipment used to crush apples into apple juice for use in making apple cider, hard cider, applejack, apple wine, pectin and other products derived from apples. More specifically, it refers to a device used to crush or grind apples as part of the overall juice production.
A key market segment exists in the UK for strong mass-produced cider at 7.5% alcohol by volume. Cider with higher than 7.5% alcohol has a higher rate of excise duty. This makes white cider at the lower duty level the cheapest form of commonly available alcohol in the UK, both to buy and to produce. [19]
The Hirst Laboratory at Long Ashton. Research on cider making began privately in 1893 at Robert Neville-Grenville's farm near Glastonbury. [2] Prompted by a letter from Frederick James Lloyd (1852–1923), [3] [4] the Board of Agriculture sponsored a conference held at Bristol on 15 October 1902 in order to create an institute for research in fruit growing, fruit utilisation, and making cider ...
On the 108-acre Ironbound Farm and Ciderhouse in Warren County, founder Charles Rosen pours a glass of hard apple cider. It’s amber and lightly effervescent, and though it’s bone dry on the ...
Ironbound Hard Cider worked with Tom Burford to bring the Harrison cider apple back to commercial scale in New Jersey. The cidery uses the Harrison to produce modern versions of three Colonial-era products (Newark Cider, Cider Royal, and pét-nat sparkling cider) on its 108-acre farm in Asbury, New Jersey, about 50 miles west of Newark.
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