Perry seeing a surge in the popularity of Pear Cider with Old Mout Cidery, Mac's, and Monteith's Brewery each producing a pear cider. Japanese perry is called 'Nashi pear's sparkling wine' or 'Pear ' (in Japan, is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from the unfiltered juice of apples. Cider in Japan refers to a soft drink similar to Sprite or lemonade). In Japan, the most commonly used pear is the Nashi pear. Nashi pears are used for both cider and eating purposes. Pear Cidre can be used as marketing terms to describe canned or bottled ciders containing a cider widget, or
Cider the Basque Country). Central Europe also has its own types of cider with Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse producing a particularly tart version known as Apfelwein. In the U.S. and parts of Canada, varieties of fermented cider are often called "hard cider" to distinguish alcoholic cider from non-alcoholic "cider" or "sweet cider", also made from apples. The juice of any variety of apple can be used to make cider, but cider apples are best. The addition of sugar or extra fruit before a second fermentation increases the ethanol content of the resulting beverage. Cider alcohol content varies from 1.2% to 8.5% ABV