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Hard Apple Cider

We tasted four nationally available hard ciders both plain and cooked in recipes.

Published Oct. 1, 2014

What You Need To Know

Most of us associate cider with the unfiltered apple juice that appears in supermarkets every fall, but before Prohibition the word “cider” meant what we know today as “hard cider,” an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. Hard cider was once the most popular beverage in America—in fact, colonial settlers (even children) drank cider in place of water because public wells ...