/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>If I pick up a Bulmers or Angry Orchard or some other bottled cider, it tastes slightly carbonated and slightly sweet.
Because most UK commercial ciders are full of artificial sweeteners and sugars and are made mostly from apple concentrate, which has a much stronger "sweet" apple flavour. Ciders on the continent in Normandy and the North of Spain are very tart and wine adjacent, as they're made purely from cider apple juice. Spanish cider isn't even carbonated so they pour it from the bottle or keg into a glass from a high distance in order to aerate the drink and make it less noticeably tart.

t. met an Irish craft cider brewer who was trying to introduce "real" cider to the Irish market and who explained how mass market commercial stuff like Bulmers or Orchard Thieves is made.