Still

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• Style

  Still cider

  Cider with no perceptible dissolved carbon dioxide, presented as a fermented fruit drink whose texture rests on body, acid and tannin alone.

Related terms

Terms that belong to the same part of the subject, or that this one is routinely confused with.

• Cider

  Sparkling

  Carrying enough dissolved carbon dioxide to form a persistent bead and a distinct prickle, whether from bottle conditioning, tank conditioning or injected gas.

• Cider

  Pétillant

  Lightly sparkling — enough dissolved gas to prickle on the tongue but well below the pressure of a fully sparkling cider, typically the result of a slow, incomplete secondary fermentation.

• Serving

  Escanciar

  The Asturian pour: the bottle held high overhead and the glass low at the hip, so that a thin stream falls a metre or more and breaks on the rim of the tilted glass.

• Chemistry

  Carbon dioxide

  The gas produced alongside ethanol in fermentation, and the gas that makes a cider sparkle. Its solubility falls as temperature rises, which is why a warm bottle foams.

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Sources

What this page rests on. Where a source is marked as registered rather than read, CiderHQ is recording that the body is authoritative on the subject without claiming to have worked through the document itself. See our evidence policy for what each state means.

• CAMRA cider and perry standards

  Campaign for Real Ale · specialist organisation · retrieved 2026-08-24

  Opened on 2026-08-24. Registered for the consumer-campaigning vocabulary — "real cider", "full juice" — which is advocacy language rather than legal definition, and is recorded as such wherever CiderHQ uses it.

• BJCP Beer Style Guidelines — cider and perry categories

  Beer Judge Certification Program · classification framework · retrieved 2026-08-24

  Opened on 2026-08-24, and the edition matters. CiderHQ registered the 2015 cider guidelines; BJCP has since published a 2025 cider edition, and the old URL now redirects into the current guidelines index. A competition style guide is a dated framework rather than a standing definition, and citing the wrong edition of one is the same class of error as citing a superseded specification. CiderHQ treats BJCP as one competition framework among several and never as the universal cider taxonomy.