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Gwatkin Old Rats Tale

Gwatkin Cider (inc Abbey Dore Ales)
Hereford, Herefordshire
Beer style: Apple Cider
Ref: ratebeer.com May2024

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Available in 330ml bottles.
Dry still cider made in the traditional farmhouse way from a blend of old varieties of cider apples. Their juice is left to ferment and mature in oak barrels, which has been the way of real cider making for centuries. This produces a still cider which has not been carbonated or sweetened. Takes its name from the old story that farmers used to add rats to the fermenting juice to give it extra flavour and body