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Then again, that bottle that Rarity uses to christen the zeppelin in Becoming Popular (The Pony Everypony Should Know) looks an awful lot like a bottle of champagne, and Pinkie does make a comment about the punch being "Spiked" in Owl's Well That Ends Well...

But yeah, I doubt the cider is alcoholic for two big reasons: one, here in the US, where the show is written, cider is not alcoholic unless it's specifically referred to as "hard cider" (apple cider here, by contrast, is basically a less filtered, unsweetened version of apple juice), and two, if the Apple family is just pressing the cider that morning, or the previous day (which is what seemed to have been done), there's no way it would've had time to ferment.