Yes, kombucha contains alcohol. How much lab tests find in commercial brands, why it rises inside the bottle and what the law says in each country.
Beer is the alcoholic drink most associated with gout. What studies say about purines, alcohol, uric acid and alcohol-free beer.
From Asturian natural cider to Quebec ice cider, discover the main types of cider, the laws that define them and how they compare in the glass.
Learn how to taste cider like an expert, from color and aroma to sweetness, tannin and faults, with BJCP scoring and the Asturian escanciado.
No amount of alcohol is known to be safe in pregnancy, whether wine or beer. What to do if you drank before knowing, and what a 0.0 beer really contains.
In beer tasting, crisp has nothing to do with crunch. It describes a dry, clean, fresh finish, and the BJCP defines it as an abrupt turn to sharpness.
Angry Orchard went national in the US in 2012 with Crisp Apple among its three core ciders, and now runs a cidery on a 24-hectare orchard in New York.
Sidra Real Etiqueta Blanca is the everyday cider of CCU Argentina’s longest-running brand, made in the Alto Valle de Río Negro from red and green apples.
The Original Dry is the 5.3% version the brand bills as export strength for the US and Canada, and it is also sold in the UK in cans and bottles.
Trabanco Tradicional is the yellow-label natural cider of a Gijón house making cider since 1925, fermented with natural yeasts mostly in chestnut casks.
El Gaitero Clásica is the sparkling cider of the Asturian house founded in 1890 in Villaviciosa, extra semi-dry, 4.1%, with ample bubbles and firm acidity.
Sidra 1888 is the 5% cider Sáenz Briones makes from red apples in Argentina’s Alto Valle de Río Negro, at a company owned by CCU since 2010.
