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Where is the line between hard cider and apple wine?

Is it the bubbles? The yeast that gets pitched? Whether it's apple juice or apple cider that's used?
 
i thought straight fermented juice was hard cider.

adding sugar pre-ferment is apple wine.

adding honey pre-ferment is cyser.
 
motobrewer said:
i thought straight fermented juice was hard cider.

adding sugar pre-ferment is apple wine.

adding honey pre-ferment is cyser.
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Ok, if that's true, I added brown sugar pre-ferment and I've ended up with a 10%ABV, but I intend to carbonate. Is there really such a thing as a carbonated wine?
 
Ickythekid said:
Ok, if that's true, I added brown sugar pre-ferment and I've ended up with a 10%ABV, but I intend to carbonate. Is there really such a thing as a carbonated wine?
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Sure! Sparkling wine and champagne are both carbonated wines. You could even bottle it in champagne bottles, for extra coolness ;)

You don't really need to get caught up in the definitions, though. Its an apple wine, which is a kind of cider. The only time it would really matter is if you were entering a contest and needed to make sure it was entered in the right category.
 

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