Cider house

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A cider house is an establishment, often little more than a room in a farmhouse or cottage, selling cider only, for consumption on the premises.

The cider sold is usually brewed on the premises, from apples grown in a local cider orchard. Such cider houses were once common and are still occasionally to be found, in for example the West Country of the UK.

Changes in taxation of cider in the early 1970s, and social changes, mean that most cider houses now exist in name only.

Cider houses also exist in other countries, for example the Basque Country where they are referred to as sagardotegi.

[edit] External links

• List of the remaining cider houses in the UK. Retrieved 1/9/2007.
• Description of Ye Olde Cider Bar in Newton Abbot. Retrieved 1/9/2007.