August Festival 2024

friday 23rd August – Monday 26th August 

opening hours for the festival are:

Friday and Saturday: 12pm–12am  Sunday 12pm – 11.30pm.

Monday: 12pm – 11.30pm

…and guess what! it’s happening again!! The magnificent August Bank Holiday Beer Festival! 20 real ales, a range of keg beers and six ciders. food will be provided both  saturday and Sunday and we have live music Saturday and Sunday, so enjoy!! (I will put more of the beers/ciders/music below when confirmed later this week)

    REAL ALE  |  ciders

Peter Cook's Little Jazz Band

Sunday 25th August 2.30pm

Covered

Saturday 24th May 4pm – 6pm

 

– On the racks –

Acorn: Barnsley Bitter (3.8%)

Our multi-award-winning Barnsley Bitter is brewed using the finest quality Maris Otter malt and English hops. Chestnut in colour, it has a well-rounded, rich flavour and retains a lasting bitter finish. The beer is brewed using yeast strains that were used in the 1850s to brew ‘Barnsley Bitter’. Acorn Brewery’s Barnsley Bitter won the SIBA Gold Award for Cask in 2023 and also won a Gold Award in KEG 2024. It also won a Silver Award in its class at the Great British Beer Festival in 2006 and 2015, with a Bronze in 2018. Additionally, it has been a finalist in 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2019.

Kent Brewery Mayflower

Lancaster: Amber (3.6%)

The Lancaster Amber is a beautiful golden brown in colour, making it as pleasing to the eyes as it is to the palate. This beer is incredibly easy to drink, making it a favourite among beer enthusiasts and casual drinkers alike. Not only does the Lancaster Amber offer a unique taste and a beautiful colour, but it’s also vegan friendly. This means that everyone can enjoy this high-quality beer, regardless of dietary preferences or restrictions.

 

Signature Roadie

Coach House: Honey Pot Bitter (3.8%)

A dark amber bitter, brewed with pure honey which adds a floral nose and a smooth luscious silky finish.

Salopian Paper Planes

Southport: Dark Night Mild: (3.9%)

Award-winning dark mild. Smooth, dry, with coffee and chocolate flavours.

Bank Top:Flat Cap (4%)

Our signature beer, a pale bitter with a citrus aroma and hoppy citrus finish.

Kent Brewery Black Honey

Bradfield brewery:Farmer's Brown Cow (4%)

A rich deep chestnut coloured ale, with a beautifully smooth creamy head. A citrus aftertaste gives way to a long dry finish.

Oakham Dragon

Lakedown: Magic Hour (3.4%)

‘Magic Hour’ is the latest offering from our small batch cask range. It’s a classic Golden Ale brewed with Fuggles and Goldings hops that is light and refreshing with a balanced bitterness, with notes of citrus, honey, and spice. Perfect for summer.

 

Bowland:Bumble(4.1%)

A SIBA regional gold winner, this blonde ale is lightly hopped with the addition of our own local raw honey.

360 Double Act

Disruption is Brewing: memoirs of a Geezer (4.2%)

Pale brown session bitter with malt flavours present throughout. Dry with a lasting sharp and bitter finish.

Stonehenge: Great Bustard(4.5%)

A dark amber coloured beer with a deep red hue traditionally brewed using only the finest quality of Stonehenge Spring Water, barley, rye, crystal and wheat malts, whole hops and the brewery’s own top-fermenting yeast. The complex malt and fruit flavours develop into a very pleasingly fruity and bitter aftertaste which lingers on. This fine beer was first brewed to celebrate the approval in November 2003 for the reintroduction of the Great Bustard bird onto the Salisbury Plain.

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Oakham: Cloud (4.8%)

An unfined hazy Session IPA packed with New World hop character. Expect citrus and tropical fruit aromas and flavours in abundance and a luscious mouthfeel.

Gadd's West Coast IPA

Fuzzy Duck: Cunning Stunt (4.3%)

An amber coloured bitter brewed with Willamette and Bramling Cross hops. The body from the malt is balanced with hops to produce blackcurrant, spice and herbal notes.

360 Double Act

Pictish: Alchemists Ale (4.3%)

A refreshing straw coloured ale, with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish

kelburn: Jaguar (4.5%)

One of our best-selling beers. A golden, full bodied ale with undertones of grapefruit and a long lasting citrus, hoppy aftertaste. This beer has bite!

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Iron Pier: Killicks Mill IPA (5.3%)

A tropical hazy pale ale, brewed with Citra and Idaho 7 hops. Full bodied with a mouth watering juicy finish. 

Gadd's West Coast IPA

Stewarts: Edinburgh Gold(4.8%)

Refreshing, balanced and full of flavour. This is a captivating golden ale, sophisticated in taste and rich in colour. Edinburgh Gold pours deep gold with a white head. On the nose is a complex blend of noble hops and a little caramel sweetness. The taste is medium to light-bodied with continental hops and moderate bitterness providing a pleasing smooth finish.

360 Double Act

Kent: Neomexicanus (5%)

This bright and punchy IPA is heavily-hopped with Sabro, Talus and Zappa, bringing lots of exciting new world flavours, like citrus, coconut and Stonefruit.

Oakham/Salopian: Harmonic (4.4%)

A Collaboration Cask West Coast Pale brewed with our friends from Salopian Brewery!

Quintessential West Coast Pale with bold citrus hop flavours, pine resin notes and a bitingly bitter grapefruit finish harmonising on a firm malt backbone.

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Salopian:Shropshire Gold(3.9%)

Golden, with a floral aroma and a full hoppy flavour that is balanced by a crisp dry maltiness and a rich finish.

Gadd's West Coast IPA

Stonehenge:Pillars of Pale (4.1%)

A light pale ale traditionally brewed using only the finest quality of Stonehenge Spring Water, barley and wheat malts, whole hops and the brewery’s own top-fermenting yeast. Our light pale ale is made using new world hops, giving hints of tropical and white fruits.

– CIDERS –

360 Double Act

Kentish Pip: forager (still)(3.4%)

Forager is a taste sensation packed full of juicy hedgerow berries and bursting with natural flavour. Based on an old family recipe, we love pairing real fresh berries with crisp Kentish cider to create a premium, natural and not overly sweet fruit cider.

Kentish Pip: Skylark (still)(5.5%)

Skylark is a next generation sparkling cider, popping with big notes of fresh Kentish dessert apples, followed by a flourish of complex cider tannins. Slow fermentation of this special blend of dessert and cider varieties creates a deeply refreshing, medium dry cider for people who expect the beyond.

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Kentish Pip: High Diver (4.8%)

High Diver plunges you into a world of fine bubbles and bobbing apples. A luxurious blend with Cox and Bramley apples, medium dry, marrying fresh acidity with a bright aromatic fruit character. It’s a perfect partner to oysters and seafood or simply to enjoy on its own. Take a dive and see what you find.

broadoak: Pear and Chilli(4%)

Our classic national gold award winning perry expertly blended with an influence of South East Asian chilli, imparting a lovely warm finish.

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Kentish Pip: Craftsman (4.8 %)

Our original cider, Craftsman, is the people’s favourite from the connoisseur to the enthusiast. A sublime balance of fresh apple, complex notes and subtle tannins. Medium dry, combining crisp and aromatic dessert apples with heritage cider varieties. Don’t settle for anything less.

Anspach & Hobday Golden Bitter

Broadoak: Moonshine Rum and Raisin(4%)

Moonshine premium cider has been infused with rum and raisin, invoking the flavours of the warm and sunny West Indies. 

– Waiting in the wings –

Surrey Hills Brewery Shere Drop

kent: heaven Scent (4.6%)

A rich and creamy stout enriched with notes of Tonka, Vanilla and Coconut 

Goachers Special House Ale

Salopian: Hoptwister (4.5%)

With a palate that is fresh, piercing and focused, complemented by soft malt overtones and pronounced citrus flavours. A strong focus of taut, lemony, grapefruit on the finish which is balanced by a dry bitterness. 

Five Points XPA

Stonehenge: Pigswill (4%)

An amber coloured session bitter traditionally brewed using only the finest quality of Stonehenge Spring Water, barley, crystal and wheat malts, whole hops and the brewery’s own top-fermenting yeast. This session bitter is full-bodied and not so bitter, but rich in hop aroma which gives the beer a delightful aftertaste. The finish is slightly malty and fruity.

Salopian Lemon Dream

Downlands : Cosmia (4.2%)

A tropical and fruity pale hopped exclusively with mosaic.

 

Oakham Citra

Thornbridge: Jaipur (5.9%)

Usually recognised as the first UK craft IPA, and was brewed with a huge amount of US hops at a time where this was very unusual, these provide a fantastic experience of grapefruit, lemon and tropical fruit with an enticing bitterness. We balance these with a great English malt base of Low Colour Maris Otter from Norfolk that helps keep the beer light and drinkable with enough sweetness to keep it all in harmony.