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by JimiofEden
1710 days ago
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In my experience, cider is a bit contextual. I've heard and used it to mean both alcoholic and non alcoholic cider. But usually people default to mean a non filtered apple juice like you said. (Since we also have apple juice, but it's hard to think of it as anything other than super processed sugary drink) Apple liquor/cordials are usually called just that, or more specific depending on the type of liquor (i.e., my family keeps a bottle of Apple flavored whiskey) Things like apfelkorn probably just get wrapped up in the catch-all term schnapps, if not one of the above terms |
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"Apfelkorn" isn't actually schnapps, by my lexicon. I thought schnapps was basically synonymous with "obstler" - a clear, white spirit distilled from fermented fruit. I think of Himbeergeist, or Poire Willem. In Germany, it is legal to set-up a garden still, and make your own fruit spirits, without a licence; and that stuff can be very strong - much stronger than say a whisky at the bar. I've had this stuff served to me from a plastic watering can.
I believe apfelkorn is basically apple juice fortified with grain spirit (vodka, essentially). I think in some parts of Germany, it's customary to drop a shot-glass of apfelkorn into a litre-glass of pilsner (people do this with Jagermeister, for reasons I don't understand at all - why mix nice pilsner with nasty cough-mixture?)
There are sweet alcoholic products that are labelled "schnapps" that are more like fortified wine than spirits.