Just so you know, if you freeze it it's no longer apple cider. It's apple jack.

Jacking is one of two ways to create hard liquor. The other being distilling. Water freezes at a higher temp than alcohol. You can simply pick out the ice and you're left with liquor.

Neither is legal in the states unless you pay a tax to the gub'mint.

If the product reminds you of sherry, there's a very good reason for that.

I'm not trying to come across as a killjoy. I don't appreciate the fact that you can leave a fiasco of perfectly legal homemade wine on the back porch over a winter night and end up with a slushie that is both mind blowing and fair game for revenuers.

Actually you can do the same thing with the storebought variety. It seems to me it ought to be an allowed activity. But I don't write the rules.