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Ebbelwoi

Common name for apple wine in Hesse (Germany); see there.

This fruit wine (also known as apple cider, sour cider, regionally also just cider) is usually made from a mixture of different, relatively acidic apples and fermented with alcohol. The Hebrews and Phoenicians already drank sour, rather vinegar-like cider made from pressed apples, which they called shekar (also mentioned in the Bible ), and the Greeks called it sikera. The Romans not only spread individual apple varieties, but also cider in Europe.

Apfelwein - Geripptes (Glas) und Bembel (Krug)

In Germany, cider is very popular regionally, e.g. in Frankfurt as "Äppelwoi" or "Ebbelwoi". It has an alcohol content of between 5 and 7% vol. "Hessischer Apfelwein" is a...

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