To: thomas@tbeckett.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pear cider?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:33:48 -0500
Growing up in New England these terms are the facts as I know them:
Cider = Brown juice of apples
Apple Juice = clear juice of apples, like out of a centrifugal juicer made at
home
Hard Cider = fermented brown juice of apples, almost clear.
started with yeast or no additives at all.
Lasts only a day once ready, or a week in
refrigerator
Perry = squeeze pressed juice of pears
Pear wine = clear wine gotten after Perry ferments. Dry white wine.
Best use for a juice pear I have here.
Pasteurized Cider = worthless sold in plastic gallon jugs at supermarkets
Pasteurized Apple Juice = Preserved sold in glass containers at supermarkets.
To be drunk only if desperate.
I know of no "hard Perry" because here when we ferment our juice pear it
doesn't make a product equivalent to
"Hard Cider", it makes a clear white wine [of excellent quality by the way
and much superior to commericial
grape wines, 4 out of 5 bottles of which from the store are best used by
pouring down the sink].