Cider

Cider is an alcoholic beverage made using the fermented juice of apples. The earliest documented record of it dates all the way back to 55 BC when Julius Caesar's retreating troops brought the idea back to Rome after witnessing the native Celts fermenting crabapples in Britain. Today the United Kingdom is the largest consumer of cider, however it is third behind France and Spain in terms of production.

The use of cask ageing in cider is not traditional and as such, ex-cider casks in whisky maturation are not common either. In fact, the use of ex-rum casks to age cider is far more common than the reverse practice. To date there have been very few rums aged in ex-cider barrels with some of the earliest releases in 2019 by experimental Danish bottler, Phantom Spirits.