I’ve only ever had carbonated cider in the US. Hard cider 
Although I do like round, too - lots of dried meats like Biltong.
Spicy pan fried vegetable dumplings and scallions with cold, blanched yu choy dressed with soy sauce/chili crisp, fresh ginger and sriracha.
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Really? France has a long history of fizzy, alcoholic ciders, and I’m surprised that Germany doesn’t.
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The real Hard Ciders are naturally Carbonated from Fermentation much like Beer or Champagne/Sekt/Cava…etc…
They do it is called Apfelwein, Most, Ebbelwoi or Viez.
Not sure how common or popular it is, I am sure that “Linguafood” can address that for the greater Berlin Area.
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It’s carbonated apple juice. The farm I bought it from is an apple orchard so they sell apples at the farm stand. They also sell sparkling apple cider (with alcohol and non alcoholic), apple juice, apple cider vinegar and pastries (apple fritters, apple pies, etc.). I bought the non alcoholic cider and it contains carbonated apple juice. Not sure about the alcoholic version.
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@BierMonk & @ernie_in_berkeley you both misunderstood.
I have had ample amounts of French cidre growing up, although I always found it to be more wine-like than US cider. Ebbelwoi isn’t carbonated AFAIK and tastes like feet 
I know that hard cider in the US is carbonated due to fermentation.
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That’s cool! Apfelschorle is more diluted since you add seltzer, and one of the most refreshing summer drinks I can think of 
Some orchards sell cider that, left to its own devices on your very cold back porch, will ferment and get a little fizzy. But, they aren’t selling it that way on site!
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Not very exciting but tasty and easy: a portion of qeema with kale and potatoes from the freezer, bulked up with a bit more kale, over rice.
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In fact, I once fermented orchard cider by adding some wine yeast. It wasn’t very good.
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BF needed to get out of the house. So, we ended up at Deep Ellum (formerly The Gaff, formerly The L, formerly Frosty’s) on Moody Street in Waltham, MA. While I know that it is beloved by the base that followed it here from Allston, its biggest flaw is that it is not The Gaff. But, that is not its fault. We got wings (buffalo sauce on the side for me), so I could enjoy them (and some Great Hills Blue) with an Etna Rosso. Also, chorizo, mixed pickled vegetables, and chips and onion dip. BF started with an Old Fashioned and then shifted to a Ballast Point Sculpin. Everything was enjoyable.
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What a beautiful night sky. Mystical, even.
Oh, the other stuff, too - but we see lots of foodie stuff here. That moon is less common, and more special therefor.
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I buy unpasteurized cider from a farm in Amesbury, MA every year. I pour it into freezer containers BEFORE it gets fizzy for later use in cooking.
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MOAR leftovers.
The last of the lasagna & we split the two remaining sausages from the Italian market. A mess of burrata caprese for starters. Gaffel Kölsch with.
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The worst thing I ever tried (in this arena) was yeast fermenting acid whey after making paneer. I hated the idea that I was just wasting the acid whey, but I didn’t like just drinking it.
I found some crazy Norwegian youtuber who claimed you could ferment it to make blaand, a fermented drink.
Maybe his stuff actually tasted good, but mine sucked bigtime all three times.
[Edit - this is as opposed to sweet (non-acid) whey fermentation]
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Yeah, but the fizzy stuff always felt so subversive at 6:30 in the morning before going to school in the 80s 
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I have never seen proper Apfelschorle in Canada.
Some Canadian orchards and grocery stores sell a sparkling apple juice or sparkling non alcoholic cider, which is sweeter with less apple taste than the Apfelschorle sold in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
I haven’t checked any Polish grocery stores in Ontario to see if they have any. I like the Slovenian blackcurrant juice (not carbonated) sold at Polish stores. I also haven’t seen German or Austrian Johannisbeerschorle in Canada. I recently tried a Canadian carbonated blackcurrant juice but it doesn’t taste nearly as good as what is sold in Germany.
I think Martinelli’s in the States still sells carbonated apple juice.
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They do. It’s very popular at Chinese restaurant banquets.
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