Because it's fermented fruit juice, cider is considered a wine for tax purposes, and the production process shares much more with wine than beer. This large difference in the duration of fermentation contributes to another important difference between the two beverages: the alcohol content. Let's start here at the beginning. In short, cider is “an alcoholic beverage made with the fermented juice of apples.
Meanwhile, wine is “an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice. Juice from most apple varieties, including crab apples, can be used to make cider, but cider apples are the best. Several cider producers reported that they only heard about the bill when the media contacted them for comment after it was passed. Wines spend much more time at this stage, which results in the resulting beverage having a much higher alcohol content than cider.
However, if you are a cider producer who is doing something very special, who has a history behind it, that you want to highlight and that has required a lot of work and effort, then I think beer is holding you back. He did some work in this regard for Brännland Cider and realized “that the production of high-quality cider is like wine, however, the cider industry suffers from a lack of knowledge about how to capitalize on that fact. They make whole-juice ciders from apples grown specifically for cider making, mainly from their own garden of 30 traditional cider varieties. In Western Australia, the number of cider producers has also grown in the southwest region, particularly in areas where wine is also produced with producers in Denmark, Pemberton and Margaret River.
White cider, almost colorless, has the same apple juice content as conventional cider, but it is more difficult to create because the cider maker has to mix several apples to create a clearer liquid. Today, typical Swiss cider consists of fermented apple juice mixed with 30% fresh juice that is added for sweetness. All mass-produced ciders in New Zealand are flexibly regulated with their minimum fruit juice and alcohol content (mostly 4-5%). For large-scale cider production, vat ciders produced from different apple varieties can be mixed to suit the taste of the market.
A Breton kir (or Kir Normand) is a cocktail appetizer made with cider and cassis, rather than white wine and cassis for the traditional kir. In addition, most cider bottles and cans can be stored upright or on their side without affecting their flavor. Abel is not refined or filtered, which means they allow the cider to be clarified naturally by gravity; this gentle process helps preserve the fruit's natural characteristics. Most of these ciders are produced and marketed by the three big brewers (Lion Nathan, DB and Independent).
