Saturdays' party featured live music, food carts,
hard cider on tap, cider pressing, a cider-making Olympics, face painting, print making and other kids' activities throughout the day, then turned into a 21-or-older ticketed event after 7 p.m.
DR: It's probably half of the people here are going to have carboys, and they are going to do
hard cider, and then all the half gallons are going to go in our freezers, which will last me all winter.
Pilsners, pale ales and American fruit ales are also tasty options, Effervescent carbonated
hard cider - like French cidre or their U.S.
In a single night they drank 60 bottles of claret, 54 bottles of Madeira, 22 porters, 12 beers, eight bottles of whiskey, seven bowls of spiked punch, and eight
hard ciders.
Caption: Above: The Perfect
hard cider glass targets a fast-growing segment of the craft brewing trend.
"Using modem apples like Golden Delicious or Red Delicious for
hard cider would be like using table grapes for fine wine.
"I would say you're looking at a $2 billion market in 2020," says Jeffrey House, president of the California Cider Company, which puts out ACE Premium
Hard Ciders. "In 2030, my guess is it will be as big if not bigger than it is in the British market, probably 15% of the market." In other words, few industry observers consider
hard cider to be a niche anymore.
"Their drinks of choice during the Super Bowl will likely be no exception, with consumers curious to try new craft beers,
hard ciders, sparkling wine and flavored liquors.
After you've gotten the gist, imbibe recipes for a brown ale,
hard cider, blackberry wine, root beer, grape soda and several more delightful drinks.
-- One of the fastest-growing segments in the alcoholic beverage market is
hard cider.
SPAR UK, a division of Amsterdam-based multinational retailer SPAR, said it revamped its line of
hard ciders with a new taste and redesigned packaging in an attempt to boost sales in the fast-growing
hard cider category.
"What is sold commercially as
hard cider bears little if any resemblance to the cider of the early 1800s," he said.
For example, a household of six people, including one parent, two children and three servants or slaves drank seventy-five gallons of
hard cider per year as well as seventeen and a half gallon of distilled liquor.
He might not have worn a tin pail for a hat, and he probably never planted anything worth eating-although whether that's because he was busy planting apples for
hard cider (as Michael Pollan has argued), or just a little careless in his seed-sowing, goes unresolved.
Hard cider is about 6.5 percent to 8.5 percent alcohol and is made from apples that are grown specifically for that purpose.