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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.
Apple cider (also called sweet cider, soft cider, or simply cider) is the name used in the United States and Canada for an unfiltered, unsweetened, non-alcoholic beverage made from apples. Though typically referred to simply as "cider" in North America, it is not to be confused with the alcoholic beverage known as cider in other places, which ...
Cider apples are a group of apple cultivars grown for their use in the production of cider (referred to as "hard cider" in the United States). Cider apples are distinguished from "cookers" and "eaters", or dessert apples, by their bitterness or dryness of flavour, qualities which make the fruit unpalatable but can be useful in cidermaking.
Apples grown for consumption are suitable for cider making, though some regional cider-makers prefer to use a mix of eating and cider apples (as in Kent, England), or exclusively cider apples (as in the West Country, England) and West of England. There are many hundreds of varieties of cultivars developed specifically for cider making.
New Jersey’s apple cider history starts in Newark. That Newark Cider at Ironbound is much more than the sum of its parts. That is, yes, it’s a complex, refined and ultimately delicious drink ...
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.
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.
Although due to this wide propagation it is now somewhat variable in form it is usually a red-streaked apple of medium size. [2] It is an early-bearing triploid variety, classed as a "sharp" type under the usual classification of cider apples. Although primarily a cider apple, [3] Tom Putt can also