Joining ciders

摘要

With a centuries-long history, England's cider industry knows what it's doing: Its cider apple harvesting and processing operations have evolved to become exceedingly efficient, it has the highest per-capita hard cider consumption of any country and it makes up 38 percent of the global cider market — by comparison, the rest of Europe combined is 24 percent, and North America sits at 12 percent. With statistics like that, U.S. cidermakers and cider apple growers can clearly learn a thing or two fromtheir English counterparts. But, at the same time, the comparatively youthful American industry is positioned well to make some contributions of its own, according to U.K. grower, cidermaker and industry expert Neil Macdonald.