Drink to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, served as both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people. Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. Cider is a fermented alcoholic drink made from fruit juice, most commonly and traditionally apple juice, but also the juice of peaches, pears ("Perry" cider) or other fruit. Cider may be made from any variety of apple, but certain cultivars grown solely
Cider drink similar to Sprite or lemonade. A popular drink in China is called "Apple Vinegar", which is apple juice. Shanxi Province is noted for the "vinegar" produced there. In Japan, The terms or "apple sparkling wine" refer to the alcoholic beverage. Cidre is also used as a marketing term to describe canned or bottled ciders containing a cider widget or ciders which are cold-filtered rather than pasteurised. The term "cidre bouché" applies to higher quality cider sold in champagne-style bottles. Many ciders are sold in corked bottles, but some screw-top bottles exist. Recent economic growth has led to development of