Fans of sweet fermented beverages will like "a fruitier style of hard cider." He chooses the middle ground for beginners by ...
dry is the least sweet end of the range). There's also European hard cider, which is sometimes aged in oak barrels and focuses on particular apple varieties, favoring traditional fermentation ...
Apples used in sweet cider are usually seconds or culls grown for the fresh market, managed the same as other fresh apples.