It occurs to me that a "wine cooler" is something a little different.
First of all I spend most of my time in the "wine" and "cider" sections, because my interests lie some where in between. In the cider section I have seen several posts asking about "other" fruit ciders, some of them are another fruit plus apples so still a cider but others have nothing to do with apples and are being thought of as "cider" by the poster, because of the lower alcohol content, sweetness and or carbonation. The responses to these threads are always helpful but usually something is said to the effect of "if it does not have apples it is not a cider"
On the flip side, on that same cider forum if you are talking about ABV it has been said more than once that "cider" is usually 7% or less and if it has more than that it is an apple wine. So if that is the case wouldn't the opposite also be true of other fruit fermentations that are 7% or less that they are no longer wine and something more along the lines of a "wine cooler" see where I am going with this??
I made a post in the "New Forum Requests" section of the forum suggesting that a wine coolers be made a sub category in the "Wine, Mead, Cider & Soda" section.
I currently have several things going that I would categorize more along the lines of a wine cooler, and will be posting them here in the "wine" section with a tag as described in the beginning of "new forum request" thread.
As a start, my definition of a wine cooler would be a fruit beverage that is 7% ABV or less and is sweet, carbonated, OR both. I would love to here your definitions. Have any of you made any thing in this category??? I would love to here any and on thoughts on this subject.
#tag#winecoolers, hard soda, hard lemonade & more
First of all I spend most of my time in the "wine" and "cider" sections, because my interests lie some where in between. In the cider section I have seen several posts asking about "other" fruit ciders, some of them are another fruit plus apples so still a cider but others have nothing to do with apples and are being thought of as "cider" by the poster, because of the lower alcohol content, sweetness and or carbonation. The responses to these threads are always helpful but usually something is said to the effect of "if it does not have apples it is not a cider"
On the flip side, on that same cider forum if you are talking about ABV it has been said more than once that "cider" is usually 7% or less and if it has more than that it is an apple wine. So if that is the case wouldn't the opposite also be true of other fruit fermentations that are 7% or less that they are no longer wine and something more along the lines of a "wine cooler" see where I am going with this??
I made a post in the "New Forum Requests" section of the forum suggesting that a wine coolers be made a sub category in the "Wine, Mead, Cider & Soda" section.
I currently have several things going that I would categorize more along the lines of a wine cooler, and will be posting them here in the "wine" section with a tag as described in the beginning of "new forum request" thread.
As a start, my definition of a wine cooler would be a fruit beverage that is 7% ABV or less and is sweet, carbonated, OR both. I would love to here your definitions. Have any of you made any thing in this category??? I would love to here any and on thoughts on this subject.
#tag#winecoolers, hard soda, hard lemonade & more