Coalheavers Arms Beer Festival Autumn 2008

Coalheavers Arms Beer Festival Autumn 2008

The Coalheavers Autumn beer festival will take place from midday on Thursday 4th September until closing time on Monday 8th September.

Beers

An up-to-date list of beer in the pub is shown on the Beers page. This is the list of beers for the festival (provisional; may be added to):

Banks & Taylor — Shefford Old Dark 5.0% (Bedford): A rich, fruity flavoured dark beer with caramel flavours.
Banks & Taylor — Fruit Bat 4.5% (Bedford): Raspberry flavoured hoppy fruit beer.
Blackfriars — Charter Ale 4.5% (Great Yarmouth): Golden best bitter.
Blackfriars — Bitter 3.8% (Great Yarmouth): An award-winning and extremely popular traditional single-hop bitter with mellow tones and a crisp bitter finish.
Burton Bridge — Top Dog Stout 5.0% (Staffs): A malty stout brewed with pale and chocolate malt with a full rounded bitterness.
Burton Bridge — Staffs Knot Brown Ale 4.8% (Staffs): A smooth drinking brown ale with a clean hoppy aftertaste.
Burton Bridge — Sovereign Gold 4.0% (Staffs): Grapefruit flavor, fresh and fruity without being particularly bitter. Fresh, light palate, very refreshing.
Dark Star — Autumn Equinox 4.5% (Brighton): A chestnut coloured mellow ale with a hint of maltiness. A style of beer reminiscent of the rural English brews of a century ago.
Dark Star — Hophead 3.8% (Brighton): An extremely clean-drinking pale gold-coloured ale with a strong floral aroma and elderflower notes. This beer is full-bodied despite its very quaffable strength and dryness.
Dark Star — Festival 5.0% (Brighton): A chestnut bronze-coloured bitter with a smooth mouthfeel and freshness; a classic Sussex style strong bitter.
Festival — Gold 4.4% (Cheltenham): A golden orange coloured beer with a sweet floral aroma.
Triple FFF — Alton's Pride 3.8% (Hampshire): OVERALL CHAMPION BEER OF BRITAIN 2008 Excellent, clean-tasting, golden brown session bitter, full bodied for its strength. A delicious aroma of malt and hops. An initially malty flavour fades as citrus notes and hoppiness take over, leading to a lasting hoppy, bitter finish.
Grainstore — Silly Billy 4.3% (Oakham): Copper in colour, A fresh and fruity little number with good bitterness.
Grainstore — Osprey 4.0% (Oakham): Golden with a small head. Aromas are soft biscuit malts with citrus and sulphur. Flavours are hoppy and dry with citrus notes.
Green Tye — Chocks Away 4.2% (Hertfordshire): Tasting notes to follow.
Green Tye — Meridian 4.1% (Hertfordshire): Tasting notes to follow.
Inveralmond — Lia Fail 4.7% (Perth): A dark beer with a well balanced sweetness, malt and chocolate tones. Challenger, Fuggles and Cascade hops produce a rich and spicy aroma with a balanced bitterness and full-bodied flavour.
Milton — Five Hop 4.8% (Cambridgeshire): Brewed by volunteers from the Coalheavers for the Peterborough beer festival – a pale beer with mount hood, williamette, cascade, centennial and ??? hops.
Milton — Pegasus 4.1% (Cambridgeshire): Complex copper-coloured beer. The initial hoppiness is balanced with a long fruity, malty finish. Very moreish. A slight tweak to the recipe in the last 6 months has returned this classic bitter to the brewer's original vision.
Milton — Bomber's Drop 3.5% (Cambridgeshire): Our house beer and best seller. Dry hopped very pale beer with a lasting malty character all the way to the end of the pint.
Milton — Sparta 4.3% (Cambridgeshire): Milton's best beer, many claim– See if you agree? Straw coloured, very hoppy and hints of fruit in the finish.
Milton — Asterix 5.0% (Cambridgeshire): Straw-coloured bitter with hints of lemon in the finish.
Milton — Obelix 4.4% (Cambridgeshire): Thirst quenching dry pale ale.
Nailsworth — Artist's Ale 3.9% (Gloucester): A powerfully hoppy, zingy, tangy thirst quenching bitter full of citrus flavours. A refreshingly moreish session beer.
Nethergate — Jolly Roger 4.2% (Suffolk): Amber coloured beer with some fruity aromas and hoppiness.
Nethergate — Wild Goose Bitter 4.5% (Suffolk): Golden beer with understated flowery scent of hops, accompanied by a very softly sweet nougat and caramel note of malts. Simple yet delicious.
Old Cannon — Best 3.8% (Suffolk): Amber bitter with nice balance of malt and a bitter finish.
Peakstone — Nemesis 3.8% (Staffs): Gold with a sweet malt aroma. Biscuity, buttery malt taste with grassy hop.
Peakstone — Chained Oak 4.2% (Staffs): Golden coloured and hoppy with some bitter fruit flavour. Crisp malt finish.
Titanic — Iceberg 4.1% (Staffs): A combination of Maris Otter pale malt and fine wheat malt give this refreshing beer real zest. Add fresh tasting Yakima Galena and Cascade hops and what you get is a fantastic wheat beer that will hole any passing thirst.
Titanic — Triple Screw 4.5% (Staffs): Deeply hoppy, stunnigly malty and delightfully smooth,this three pronged attack on the taste buds is a treat for all beer lovers. Propel yourself to the bar.
Titanic — Nautical Mild 4.8% (Staffs): Brewed to celebrate Mild Month this dark ruby beer has a knotty juxtaposition. Sweetness from the dark malts preludes the smooth dryness of the hops. "Nautical but Nice".
Titanic — Look Out 4.4% (Staffs): Tasting notes to follow.
Tring — Astra Vixen 4.0% (Herts): Tasting notes to follow.
Tring — Space Cowboy 4.0% (Herts): Light amber in colour with a rounded hoppy character.
TSA — Scotch Mist 5.0% (Stirlingshire): A light and refreshing Scottish version of a wheat beer. Ideal summer drink with vanilla overtones and a lightly hopped lingering and rewarding aftertaste.
Wadworth — Henry's IPA 3.6% (Wiltshire): This golden brown beer, named after Henry Wadworth, has a good balance of flavour and a long lasting aftertaste, becoming biscuity. A good session beer.
Wadworth — Bishop's Tipple 5.0% (Wiltshire): A golden brew with an intriguing aroma from the delicate Saaz and spicy Styrian Goldings hops. The full flavour is well balanced with hop bitterness giving a clean finish for easy drinking.
Wylam — Rocket 5.0% (Northumberland): A pale copper traditional best bitter. Deceptively easy drinking with a fresh citrus and aromatic character from the Centennial hops. Good bitter finish.
Wylam — Northern Kite 4.5% (Northumberland): A ruby ale in the style of a traditional ‘scotch’ where the hops are balanced by residual maltiness to give subtle hop character and a rich palate. Brewed to celebrate the re-introductionof the Red Kite to the North East after an absence of 170 years.

Ciders and Perries

On the festival bar: Rich's Farmhouse Cider (6.0%), Seidr O Sir Maes Edwy (6.3%) and Ross on Wye Ashton's Bitter Cider (6.5%).

On the main bar: Moles Black Rat Cider (6.0%) and Westons Country Perry (4.5%).

Food

On Saturday lunchtime there will be Tom's home-made curry! Supplies are limited, so get there early. There's going to be a Jamaican BBQ on Sunday lunchtime.

We will be offering home-made beefburgers made with whichever dark beer the chef enjoyed the most the night before. Adding stout or mild to the burger mix gives a really juicy flavour to the burgers. If the service is slow please be aware the chef has manfully had to taste all the beers and ciders for quality control and may be feeling a little worse for wear! Check out the recipe we use!

Jacket potatos with Beans, Cheese or Tuna Mayo will also be available.