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Hard cider angry orchard3/21/2024 ![]() ![]() It doesn’t hurt that cider is naturally gluten-free, either. Rather, one could argue that craft beer appreciation instead set the table for cider appreciation-drinkers who have learned to enjoy great beer were primed and ready to appreciate a better crop of hard ciders. One is tempted to compare cider’s growth to the rise of craft beer, but never has craft beer experienced so explosive a growth rate in a single year. That’s the entire industry, with 75 percent growth. ![]() In 2014 alone, cider sales grew by 75.4 percent, according to Chicago research firm IRI. Instead, it revolutionized the cider industry in North America, making cider the single fastest-growing segment of the entire alcohol market in the last few years. Just setting out on my own path of craft beer appreciation some eight years ago, I promptly forgot that hard cider existed. In my mind, they were drinks that fueled (largely female) revelers at college house parties, and little more. The first hard ciders I ever tasted were disgusting, syrupy abominations beverages that aped the flavor profiles and tooth-ravagingly saccharine nature of Smirnoff Ice coolers while making only vague promises that “apples” were involved in some way. ![]()
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