It doesn't sound like US ciders make it here, but aside from local labels there's a decent range from NZ, UK, France and Sweden readily available. I favour apple based ciders, but a friend is mad keen on the pear variants, which I find more muted. But then I like the appleness of cider and pears aren't my favourite fruit, which probably has more to do with it.
Oddly, the term "hard" cider never made it here. Cider is cider, regardless of whether or not it has alcohol. Bear in mind we cheerfully refer to both fries and crisps as "chips" here.
I'm not a big beer fan, but I am fond of wheat beers.
I love ginger beer (the more bite, the better) and ginger ale (prefer Schweppes Ginger Ale in a glass bottle). While hard cider as a term doesn't rate a mention, hard ginger beer does. Possibly because there's not much of it about and the non-alcoholic version is common. Also, hard ginger beer is terrible.
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Date: 2020-07-07 05:01 am (UTC)Oddly, the term "hard" cider never made it here. Cider is cider, regardless of whether or not it has alcohol. Bear in mind we cheerfully refer to both fries and crisps as "chips" here.
I'm not a big beer fan, but I am fond of wheat beers.
I love ginger beer (the more bite, the better) and ginger ale (prefer Schweppes Ginger Ale in a glass bottle). While hard cider as a term doesn't rate a mention, hard ginger beer does. Possibly because there's not much of it about and the non-alcoholic version is common. Also, hard ginger beer is terrible.