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Cidre de feu (Quebec fire cider)cidre de feu

Cidre de feu is a Quebec cider made from apple juice concentrated by heat alone. Quebec's cider regulation requires the juice to reach at least 28 °Brix before fermentation, and the finished cider to keep at least 80 g/L of sugar at more than 9 % and at most 15 % alcohol. It is the heat-concentrated cousin of ice cider, whose juice is concentrated only by natural cold.

Fully documentedAlcoholic drinksFamily: Cider (apple)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedThe regulation fixes the sugar and alcohol limits but not the amounts; makers set their own.
Apple juiceConcentrated only by heat to at least 28 °Brix before fermentation[qc-cidre2012][oqlf2013]
Yeast and yeast nutrientsAmong the substances the regulation allows during making[qc-cidre]
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What changes: Apples are pressed and the juice runs out

Step 1 of 4
Press the apples
Time
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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Output: apple juice.

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Microbes at work in this step

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Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Cidre de feu is a Quebec cider made from apple juice concentrated by heat alone. Quebec's cider regulation requires the juice to reach at least 28 °Brix before fermentation, and the finished cider to keep at least 80 g/L of sugar at more than 9 % and at most 15 % alcohol. It is the heat-concentrated cousin of ice cider, whose juice is concentrated only by natural cold.

What makes this one different

Cidre de feu is concentrated by heat, while ice cider (cidre de glace) must reach at least 30 °Brix only by natural cold and keep at least 130 g/L sugar at more than 7 % and at most 13 % alcohol.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Cidre de glace (Quebec ice cider)Juice concentrated only by natural cold to at least 30 °Brix; at least 130 g/L residual sugar and more than 7 % to at most 13 % alcohol.
  • Cidre liquoreuxSweet cider with at least 80 g/L residual sugar and 5–15 % alcohol, with no rule on how the juice is concentrated.

Safety

The regulation allows sulphur dioxide or potassium metabisulphite during making, so that the finished cider holds at most 70 ppm free and 420 ppm total, counted as sulphur dioxide.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The recipe was developed in the early 1990s (fr WP). Quebec's cider regulation was made on 5 November 2008 (Order in Council 1096-2008) with ice cider and liquoreux cider but no fire cider. An amendment of 5 December 2012 (Order in Council 1160-2012, published 19 December 2012) added the definition of cidre de feu.

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Microbes
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Temperature, salt and pH
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  1. [qc-cidre] Gouvernement du Québec, Règlement sur le cidre et les autres boissons alcooliques à base de pommes, décret 1096-2008 of 5 November 2008, Gazette officielle du Québec, Partie 2, 19 novembre 2008, no 47, pp. 5921 ff. (definitions of ice cider and liquoreux cider, art. 16 on added substances). Later amendments were not readspec
  2. [qc-cidre2012] Gouvernement du Québec, Règlement modifiant le Règlement sur le cidre et les autres boissons alcooliques à base de pommes, décret 1160-2012 of 5 December 2012, Gazette officielle du Québec, Partie 2, 19 décembre 2012, no 51, s. 2 (definition of 'fire cider', 15°; English text)spec
  3. [oqlf2013] Office québécois de la langue française 2013, Grand dictionnaire terminologique, 'cidre de feu' (fire cider)gov
  4. [s1] Wikipedia (fr), 'Cidre de feu' and 'Cidre du Québec' (fetched 2026-10-16; outline only)wiki