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Temperance movement
Definition
The nineteenth and early twentieth-century campaigns against alcohol consumption, which reshaped cider-producing regions by attacking the truck system, promoting unfermented juice, and in some countries removing orchards.
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In more detail
The movement’s effects on cider were practical as well as moral. In Switzerland it helped establish Süssmost as a mass-market alternative to fermented cider; in the United States it culminated in Prohibition; in Britain it contributed to the ending of the cider allowance to farm workers.
Related terms
Terms that belong to the same part of the subject, or that this one is routinely confused with.
History
Prohibition
The United States ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks between 1920 and 1933, which broke the continuity of American cider-making and coincided with the loss of many cider orchards.
Cider
Süssmost
Unfermented apple or pear juice, literally "sweet must". In Switzerland it is the standard term for the soft drink pressed from cider fruit.
History
Truck system
The practice of paying farm labourers partly in cider rather than wholly in money. It was widespread in the West Country and the three counties and was progressively outlawed by the Truck Acts of the nineteenth century.
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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.
Hochschule Geisenheim University — beverage technology
Hochschule Geisenheim · university · retrieved 2026-08-24
German beverage-technology research covering apple wine and fruit juice processing, including the enzymology of clarification.
Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own
Ben Watson, The Countryman Press, first edition 1999; third edition 2013 · reference work · bibliographic record verified, not opened 2026-08-25
Bibliographic record verified on 2026-08-25 against Open Library: first published 1999 by The Countryman Press, with five editions recorded and a 2008 printing scanned by the Internet Archive as ciderhardsweethi0000benw. The scan is access-restricted to the print-disabled collection. The site had registered this without a year; it now carries one, and the first-edition date matters because a general trade book on cider written in 1999 predates almost the whole of the North American cider revival it is sometimes cited about.
Hereford Museum of Cider collections and interpretation
Hereford Cider Museum Trust · museum · retrieved 2026-08-24