Beer Style: Cider and Perry
Making Your Own Hard Cider
You might remember a time when a jug of cider that sat around in the fridge too long started to get fizzy. When you removed the cap there was a little spurt
Cyser Apple Honey Mead
A cyser is traditionally a “sack mead,” or a sweet mead, that’s made with honey and apples. This cyser is quite like a wine, and will have a wine’s higher alcohol content when it’s finished. An important note: When buying the apple juice or cider, be sure it doesn’t contain any preservatives — like potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate or sulfites — which would kill the yeast. Check at a health-food store or find a cider producer who’ll sell you juice right off the press.
Hopped Cider
Hop heads can take a break from drinking IPAs as more and more cidermakers are adding hops to their beverages.
Making Ice Cider
If you like making hard cider, you might enjoy making ice cider. Try fermenting this delicious dessert beverage that hails from the cool climate of Québec.
Sparkling Cyser
A thirst-quenching but deceptively strong sparkling brew. Darker than most, because of the cider. Serve chilled.
English Hard Cider
This cider is strong, still, and balanced, approximately 7 percent alcohol by volume.
New England Hard Cider
This cider is drier, slightly stronger, bubbly but not champagne-like, approximately 4.5 percent alcohol by volume.
Cidre Normande
This cider is light, sweet, fruity, and effervescent, approximately 3.5 percent alcohol by volume.
Cyserale
Partial mash with honey and fruit juice.
Make Your Own Cider
Cider. The word has mythological overtones, especially in rural areas where it is or was made. But just what is it? What differentiates it from mere “apple juice”? After all, technically, unfermented
