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>>15579785
cider is unfiltered and unsweetened, juice is pasteurized and filtered. simple as

Americans have this odd thing of calling pressed apple juice "cider", and calling cider "hard cider".

Silly Americans.

>>7103184
>>7103175

Cider, as depicted in the image is a cold pressed apple based beverage that is non-alcoholic. It's unpasteurized, unfiltered and devoid of arsenic, something that is widely used to "preserve" apple products like "juice" and "sauce".

Juice, IS pasteurized, filtered and treated with arsenic to not only preserve it's golden appearance but to extend it's shelf-life without refridgeration.

There is a significant difference, but some similarities also remain. Europeans tend to enjoy mulled wine over the Holidays, mulled cider is something very common here (New York) during this time of year. Apples were more readily available than grapes, so instead of wine cider was substituted for this Holiday beverage.

Dry cider/Sweet cider, or alcoholic cider isn't very common place here. Strongbow started advertising in the states a few years ago, despite being a household name in much of Europe, especially in the UK and Ireland. Magners would be the most common cider in Ireland, that's from my personal experiences there, it was on tap in every pub I went to, no matter where I was in Ireland. I visited Cork for 3 months every summer as a child, as I am the only American born in my family, my parents came to NY in 1976.

So TLDR- cider isn't alcoholic all the time.

Sorry for the delay in response, I do have employment that needs tending to.