On Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:23:39 PM UTC-7, bigwheel wrote:
> ;1867663 Wrote:
>

> > Hard cider just means cider that has fermented, not fermented cider that
> > has
> > been freeze-concentrated.
>
> >
>
> > It may be only in America where cider refers to an unfermented beverage,
> > necessitating the use of an adjective like "hard" to clarify.
> > And spirits of cider, like Calvados, are made in a pot still, which
> > conserves
> > aromatics as well as the congeners you warn against in freeze
> > concentrated
> > cider.
>
>
>
> Yall must be from the other side of the mountain. Hard cider gets hard
> by setting apple wine out in the elements during a cold snap..pouring
> off the good stuff that dont freeze itself and giving the snowball that
> is left over to the kids. It also works to place a judicial amount in
> the freezer for a week or two. Where are you from..anyhow? I am smelling
> a McCoy.
>
>

America knows the freeze concentrated beverage as applejack. Apple wine is
fermented apple juice to which sugar has been added. I suspect wheel is
some sort of Russkie Commie infiltrator. Or some newbie who can't distinguish
beer (the fermented beverage) from whiskey (the distilled spirit of beer).