Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "Why Americans and Brits say 'cider' to mean very different things" video.

  1. Canada and the USA for the most part had been very conservative societies and the majority of the population were against Alcohol, it was not part of America and also Canada until the 1960s but only became properly mainstream in the 1990s so pretty recent. My state of Washington did not permit the sell of Alcohol in any store except state run stores until the 2000s as an example, so Cider was simply by default non alcoholic which is why the name Hard Cider came to be as the name Cider was already in use at that point as a drink safe for children so the last thing a Cider maker waned was a PR disaster with kids getting drunk thinking it was alcohol free so the word Hard Cider stuck by default. I don't think it is some big issue like you make it out to be in the video and also most Alcoholic Ciders do not put on the label Hard Cider but just normal Cider so it really isn't an issue. The one thing to keep in mind is that many of the ciders in the USA have higher alcohol than the UK, I think due to taxation but I am not sure, either way cider I buy from UK tends to be under 7% alcohol while most cider I buy like 2 Towns The Bad Apple from Oregon is 11% alcohol.
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