Spring Beer Festival 2010

The Spring beer festival will take place 22nd-26th April 2010.

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):

Brentwood — Roy Rogers 3.8% (Essex)

Light brown session bitter, very smooth and easy drinking after a hard days work.

Adnams — Extra 4.3% (Suffolk)

Former champion beer of Britain in 1993– Brewed to celebrate 2010 Cask Ale Week. A gloriously hoppy aroma balanced by the biscuity fullness of the malts with a dry tart bitterness.

Allgates — Twitter & Bisted 3.9% (Lancashire)

A very hoppy session bitter.

Arran — Clyde Puffer 4.5% (Isle of Arran)

A stout with a deep black colour. Sweet and mellow with a low hop taste.

Arran — Blonde 5.0% (Isle of Arran)

A pale golden continental style Beer, with a citric fruit palate and a good hop character.

Atlas — Latitude 3.6% (Argyle)

A refreshing straw-coloured ale, inspired by the Pale lagers from the Czech town of Pilsen. The aroma combines a zesty attack and an apricot fruitiness, with the subtle floral hop notes of Styrian Golding hops.

Bradfield — Farmers Blonde 4.0% (Sheffield)

A very pale, brilliant blonde beer, with citrus and summer fruit aromas, making it extremely refreshing.

Castor — Roman Gold 3.7% (Cambridgeshire)

A refreshing summer bitter, well hopped, with a light nutty after taste.

Castor — Castor Oil (Cambridgeshire)

Cairngorm — Sheepshaggers Gold 4.5% (Aviemore)

A delicious golden beer ale with a perfect balance between continental hops and the finest malt. The best beer baa none!

Coastal — Hop Monster 3.7% (Cornwall)

A superb easy-drinking golden bitter with a citrus hop blast.

Dark Star — American Pale Ale 4.7% (Sussex)

A yeast strain used for the brewing of the pale dry American Ales was specially imported from the USA, along with some Chinook and Centennial hops, to produce this pale ale. The pale Maris Otter malt provides a perfect light colour and dryness to complement the crisp taste and full aroma of the hops.

Digfield — Fools Nook 3.8% (Northants)

Golden Summer bitter well hopped with a refreshing citrus aftertaste.

Digfield — IPA 4.7% (Northants)

A strong flavoured pale ale with a hoppy aroma and a dry lingering finish.

Dorset — Chesil 4.1% (Dorset)

Amber colour. Citrus/Floral aroma. A pilsner style summer ale.

Elland — Nettlethrasher 4.4% (W.Yorks)

A deep copper coloured traditional ale, brewed using six different malts and developing interesting flavours from the combined use of English and American hop varieties. All this goes together to make this a mighty mouthful.

Frog Island — Fire Bellied Toad 5.0% (Northampton)

A pale golden bitter beer exhibiting the full character of Phoenix hops, the single variety used in the beer.

Fyne — Avalanche 4.7% (Argyle)

A deliciously fruity, straw coloured ale with a fragrant "lemony" foretaste and an intriguing hint of grapefruit in the finish. Distinctly moreish.

Harviestoun — Bitter & Twisted 3.8% (Alloa)

A sharp, blond beer with a superb, fresh hop profile combining aromatic Hallertau Hersbrucker with spicy Challenger. It is finished by late hopping with Styrian Goldings, which gives sharpness like the twist of a lemon. A truly refreshing beer and strangely moreish. Champion Beer of Britain 2003.

Hopshackle — Resination 7.0% (Lincolnshire)

Inspired by the style of Imperial IPA’s . It has vast quantities of Hops added and as a consequence is packed full of hop resins and oils. It is burnished gold in colour and has a white head with an aroma packed full of hop derived spice and herbal character.

Hopshackle — Historic Porter 4.8% (Lincolnshire)

This is an award winning dark beer with deep red highlights and an aroma of malt , grain and fruit . The taste is malt , hops , chocolate and liquorice with a bitter finish.

Hop Back — English Hop Medley 4.0% (Salisbury)

Celebrate St. George’s Day with our tribute to the delights of the great English hop! An easy drinking, chestnut-coloured pale ale with a complex range of flavours.

Itchen Valley — Green Jacket 4.3% (Hampshire)

Fruity hops on the nose, clean and refreshing to taste with a hoppy and bitter dry finish.

Milton — Sparta 4.3% (Cambridge)

Milton's best beer many claim – see if you agree? Definitely the best seller in the Coalheavers year round. Straw coloured, very hoppy and hints of fruit in the finish – you say pineapple – the brewer says mango!

Milton — Pegasus 4.1% (Cambridge)

Complex copper-coloured beer. The initial hoppiness is balanced with a long fruity, malty finish. Very moreish.

Milton — Bomber's Drop 3.5% (Cambridge)

Our house beer. Dry hopped very pale beer with a lasting malty character all the way to the end of the pint.

Milton — Icarus 4.5% (Cambridge)

Brewed with extra pale malt this is a seriously pale and crisp hoppy bitter.

Milton — Tiki 3.8% (Cambridge)

New Zealand Hops and extra pale malt make this pale bitter full of citrus flavours.

Salopian — Oracle 4.0% (Shropshire)

Very aromatic straw coloured ale.

Saltaire — Copper Ale 4.1% (Bradford)

Best bitter hopped with a blend of English hops.

Skinners — Keel Over 4.2% (Cornwall)

A classic Cornish mid strength bitter. Amber coloured and beautifully balanced to give a smooth finish.

St. Austell — Proper Job 4.5% (Cornwall)

Light, clear and refreshing with an assertive hop bitterness, Proper Job IPA is based on a traditional IPA recipe which dates back to the 17th century when it was brewed and supplied to all parts of the British Empire.

Wem — Rainbow Chaser 4.3% (Shropshire)

A very pale bitter brewed with Pioneer Hops.

Weetwood — Oast House Gold 5.0% (Cheshire)

A straw coloured beer. The addition of wheat malt produces a full and memorable foretaste, with Goldings adding a lingering, unique, dry finish.

White — Dark 4.0% (East Sussex)

A dark mild, deep ruby in colour with a smooth malty flavour.

Williams Bros — Froach Heather Ale 4.1% (Stirlingshire)

Flowering heather is added to the brew producing a light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt character, a spicy herbal flavour and dry wine like finish.

York — Centurions Ghost 5.4% (York)

A warming, dark, bitter ale with a roasted malt taste. Very easy to drink for its strength.

Plus 8 More Guests to be confirmed.