Woodchuck Hard Cider is a brand of hard cider

Cider

Cider or cyder is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice. Cider varies in alcohol content from 2% abv to 8.5% abv or more in traditional English ciders. In some regions, such as Germany and America, cider may be termed "apple wine"...

 produced by the Vermont Hard Cider Company, LLC in Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury (town), Vermont

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. It is the top-selling hard cider in the United States, with approximately 47% of the hard cider market in the US.

Varieties

All Woodchuck ciders are naturally gluten-free because the product is made from apples only, without any grains.

The company sells several types of cider under the Woodchuck name, including core flavors, limited released which are sold at particular times of year, and private reserves which are produced in limited batches.

Core styles

• Amber - traditional New England cider
• 802 (Dark & Dry) - has caramelized sugar added, but still drier than Amber. Named after the area code of the company.
• Granny Smith - made from only Granny Smith
  Granny Smith
  The Granny Ramsey Smith green apple is a tip-bearing apple cultivar, which originated in Australia in 1868. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The tree is thought to be a hybrid of Malus sylvestris, the European Wild Apple, with the domestic...
  
   apples
• Pear - apple cider with natural pear flavoring added
• Raspberry - apple cider with a raspberry flavoring added

Limited releases

Woodchuck has seasonal cider varieties which are released according to time of year:

• Spring - flavored with maple syrup and brown sugar
• Summer - more tart than Amber cider
• Fall - flavored with cinnamon
  Cinnamon
  Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods...
  
  , nutmeg
  Nutmeg
  The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. The most important commercial species is Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia...
  
  , and white oak
  White oak
  Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak of the Fagaceae family, native to eastern North America and found from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. Specimens have been...
  
  
• Winter - a combination of "Premium French" and "Traditional American Oak"

Private reserves

In fall/winter 2008, Woodchuck started shipping a limited release of an oak-aged cider simply called Oak Aged. They also formerly produced a variety called Colonial, which was also aged in oak barrels.

In the fall of 2010, the company produced a limited run of pumpkin hard cider, which they claim as the world's first pumpkin cider.

Barrel Select private reserve is hard cider that combines the taste of cider with the taste of Kentucky bourbon

Bourbon

- Food and drink :* Bourbon whiskey, an American whiskey made using a corn-based mash* Bourbon biscuit, a chocolate sandwich biscuit* A beer produced by Brasseries de Bourbon* Bourbon coffee, a type of coffee made from a cultivar of coffea arabica...

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External links

• http://www.viewpoints.com/Woodchuck-Draft-Cider-reviews# Woodchuck Draft Cider Reviews