[Brad from Tennessee]

[After the allotted time, the cider is dumped into another tank where it gets carbonated. . .]

Homemade hard cider is naturally carbonated. I never set out to make hard cider. It just used to happened when I left a jug of fresh cider out on the kitchen counter too long. Hard cider is distilled into apple jack. Apple jack was also made by leaving a barrel of hard cider outside in the winter to freeze. The alcohol would separate from the cider into a bubble.

[Just another Joe]

Homemade hard cider is naturally carbonated. I never set out to make hard cider. It just used to happened when I left a jug of fresh cider out on the kitchen counter too long.

Yeh, but these guys are making it in LARGE quantities. They don't have the time to let it naturally carbonate.

And applejack is just a little too stout for this country boy.
May as well make brandy.