What is the difference between apple juice and cider?

jk18

"Apple juice is produced by the crushing of apples, and then filtered extraction of the clear juice. It is usually then pasteurized." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_juice Apple cider tends to be cloudier, tangy and has a tarter taste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling_cider Nov 24 08, 5:11 PM

star_gazer

Around Halloween here in the US hot cider is a popular drink. Also see #40496 and #52663. Nov 24 08, 6:08 PM

davejacobs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A673463 In Europe, cider is an alcoholic drink: "A pint of real cider doesn't have to be clear either, it can be cloudy and still. What is important is that wonderful fruity sharp natural flavour and a strength of around 5-8% which puts the drink mid-way between beer and wine." I remember the disappointment when I first bought cider in America. Nov 25 08, 2:29 AM

Baloo55th

Cider ought to be alcoholic - the name comes from a word to do with intoxication. Apple juice is what it says - apple juice. (GingeryNutt classes a certain UK brand names after a bird that taps on trees as apple juice, but it does contain alcohol.) Examples of cloudy cider to sample (carefully at first) are Weston's Old Rosie and Mole's Black Rat (brewed for them by Thatchers). Rat looks like a pint of orange juice. Doesn't taste like orange juice. In countries outside the UK, cider can also include alcoholic drinks made from pears and other things. Here we use the term perry for the pear drink and class the other things as fruit wines. Perry is sweeter than cider, by the way. I don't think you can make a dry perry. Real cider is mostly sweeter than the (to me chemically) strong white ciders which can be quite dry. Then there are the junk ciders (still better than most British lager) like Magners which are designed to be drunk with ice in. Yuk. Nov 25 08, 2:54 PM