# What's the difference between apple juice and apple cider? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 13, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195 "2011-02-13T07:09:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/21 "2011-02-13T21:02:52Z")
I’m just trying to emphasise the differance, we would never call apple juice - cider, and we would always mean an alcoholic drink when we use the word cider. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/22 "2011-02-14T01:48:13Z")
a true cider can ferment i think and apple juice doesnt? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/23 "2011-02-14T02:11:55Z")
> [@ChrisBooth12](#): > > a true cider can ferment i think and apple juice doesnt? Apple juice ferments fine, as long as it’s not sorbated. But, yeah, if you have a regular farmhouse, unpasteurized cider, you can just leave that and let nature take its course. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/24 "2011-02-14T23:00:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If it’s clear and yella, you got juice there, fella. > If it’s tangy and brown, you’re in Cidertown! > > …of course, in Canada, the whole thing’s flip-flop. …I dunno about you, but I ain’t ever seen any brown, tangy apple juice. If I bought juice like that I’d think it went bad somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/25 "2011-02-14T23:42:12Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > …I dunno about you, but I ain’t ever seen any brown, tangy apple juice. Where I shop, it is always in the cooler near the produce section, in half gallon plastic bottles like milk comes in. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/26 "2011-02-14T23:46:50Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Where I shop, it is always in the cooler near the produce section, in half gallon plastic bottles like milk comes in. Or even gallon jugs. Looks like [this](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zp8Fn_8Lico/SRiGlPlX6VI/AAAAAAAAELk/QZf94_8UkR4/s1600-h/apple_cider.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/27 "2011-02-15T01:32:36Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Apple juice ferments fine, as long as it’s not sorbated. But, yeah, if you have a regular farmhouse, unpasteurized cider, you can just leave that and let nature take its course. And add a dead dog! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/28 "2011-02-18T02:25:58Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Ah, it’s been years since I’ve read Pratchett, but I agree that “scumble” is most likely a linguistic riff on “scrumpy.” Not just the name: _It’s not true about the rats, or the snakes’ heads, or the lead shot. The one about the dead sheep is a complete fabrication_ All of the stories referenced there are stories about scrumpy (The dead sheep is a dead dog in the scrumpy story, but the gory details are probably the same). ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195/29 "2011-02-18T03:47:09Z")
> [@](#): > > In the year of sixteen forty-two, in a little cider mill > A poor old dog lay down to rest 'cause he was feeling ill > He chose a most precarious perch above the apple press > An in his sleep he tumbled in and perished in distress > … 😃 [http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/s/scrumpy.html](http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/s/scrumpy.html) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NhzhwawbMrQ/hqdefault.jpg "Dead Dog Scrumpy.(written by Trevor Crozier)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhzhwawbMrQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-apple-juice-and-apple-cider/571195.md?page=1)