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Beverage Style: Botanical Cider

Botanical Cider (formerly known as Spiced Cider or Spice, Herb, and Vegetable Cider) includes ciders with any combination of culinary spices, herbs, and vegetables. Allowable ingredients include nuts (anything with ‘nut’ in the name, including coconut), chili peppers, coffee, chocolate, spruce tips, rose hips, hibiscus, fruit peels/zest (but not juice), and the like. It does not include culinary fruit or grains. Flavorful fermentable sugars and syrups (agave nectar, maple syrup, molasses, sorghum, treacle, honey, etc.) can be included only in combination with other allowable ingredients, and should not have a dominant character.