Beer Festival 12th-16th August 2004

Our second beer festival takes place from Thursday 12th August to Monday 16th August. A provisional beer and cider list is shown below. (Check back here to see if it's changed...)

If the weather is good, home-made burgers will be available from a BBQ in the garden. If the weather isn't good we'll cook them in the kitchen instead. (Update, Monday evening: it's not looking good at the moment according to BBC Weather...) Rolls and baked potatos will also be available.

Beers

Some of these will be available on the main bar, and some from the festival stillage in the public bar. The usual range of Milton beers will also be available on the main bar.

Bartrams - Green Man 4.0% (Suffolk)

An organic beer with subtle use of coriander, west country floor-malted Maris Otter malt and New Zealand hops.

Bartrams - Captain Bill 4.8% (Suffolk)

Bartrams - Leo 4.0% (Suffolk)

The latest beer in Bartram's Zodiac range.

Butcombe - Blonde 4.3% (Somerset)

Made with the palest English malt (sometimes known as lager malt), using the finest Slovakian Styrian and Czech Saaz hops. A premium bitter with a great nose.

Hampshire - Greece Lightning 4.2%

This 'Olympic' IPA is Gold and Bronze in colour. Delicate malt flavours derive from Imperial and Amber malts. To continue the Olympic theme there are plenty of First Gold hops in this refreshing beer.

Harviestoun - Schiehallion 4.8%

Brewed with lager malt and Hersbrücker and Challenger hops. Fermented with a lager yeast, but treated in every other way as a cask ale, save for a week or two of cool conditioning prior to release. Named after the misty mountain near Pitlochry. Has won numerous awards as a cask conditioned beer, including three times gold winner at the Great British Beer Festival.

Humpty Dumpty - Swallowtail 4.0% (Norfolk)

Golden ale. A hoppy flavour with a dry finish.

Humpty Dumpty - Lemon & Ginger 4.0% (Norfolk)

Based on Swallowtail with a subtle ginger aftertaste.

Humpty Dumpty - Claud Hamilton 4.3% (Norfolk)

With its dark brown colouration, this old-style oyster stout is a stirring mix of roast fruity sweetness. The bitter-sweet finish draws out a hint of caramelised toffee.

Humpty Dumpty - Cheltenham Flyer 4.6% (Norfolk)

An amber ale, with excellent bitterness.

Hydes - Fit as a Fiddle 4.0% (Manchester)

Fabulous flavours emanate from this golden tinted highly quaffable rather special brew due mainly to the use of Styrian Gold.

Milton - Thebes (Cambridge)

This is the first outing in the UK for a new beer from Milton brewery and kicks off their imminent "Ancient Cities" collection. This is a wheat beer.

Milton - Constantine (Dry Hopped) (Cambridge)

Milton - Theodora 4.1% (Cambridge)

Originally brewed for the 2004 Elysian beer festival in Ely.

Milton - Beran's Birthday Beer (Cambridge)

In honour of the landlord's 21st birthday on Saturday (alright, 31!) Milton have brewed a new beer. Pale and hoppy with guest hops from the Wye Valley brewery this beer promises to give anyone who drinks it a 'happy beer day'.

Nethergate - Umbel Ale 3.9% (Suffolk)

Wort is percolated through coriander seeds to give a wonderful, warming, spicy fruit tang to both the taste and the aroma. The hops are strong enough to make themselves known and a strong bitter malt finish hits late. Always extremely popular in the Oakdale!

Nethergate - Sheep's Eye 4.1% (Suffolk)

A seasonal beer (brewed only in August).

Nethergate - Augustinian 4.5% (Suffolk)

A pale, refreshing complex best bitter. Fruity aroma leads to a bitter-sweet flavour and aftertaste with predominance of citrus tones.

Nethergate - IPA 3.8% (Suffolk)

This amber-coloured session bitter is clean, crisp and very drinkable. Plenty of malt and hoppy bitterness together with some fruit are pleasing to the palate. Bitterness lingers in a long dry aftertaste.

Old Cannon - Gunner's Daughter 5.0% (Suffolk)

A well balanced strong ale with a complexity of hop, fruit, sweetness and bitterness in the flavour, and a lingering pleasant, hoppy, bitter aftertaste.

Old Cannon - Best Bitter 3.8% (Suffolk)

An excellent session bitter brewed using Styrian Goldings, giving a crisp grapefruit aroma and taste. Very refreshing and full of flavour.

Old Cannon - Blond Bombshell (Suffolk)

Oldershaw - Paradise Lost 4.8% (Lincolnshire)

Number 13 in the Peterborough CAMRA "30 Beers for 30 Years" series. A golden premium ale.

Oldershaw - High Dyke 3.9% (Lincolnshire)

A golden session beer, fairly bitter and hoppy. Made with Williamette, Mount Hood, Fuggles and Cascade hops.

Oldershaw - Newton's Drop (Lincolnshire)

A golden/amber coloured distinctive hoppy beer, brewed using the new dwarf 'First Gold' hop.

St. Peter's - Golden Ale 4.7% (Suffolk)

English Halcyon malts are used together with lager malts. Goldings hops provide the bitterness and the aroma. A delicate and refreshing bitter.

Pitfield - Shoreditch Stout 4.0% (London)

Light-bodied, but smooth and dry, with flavours of maple syrup and charcoal.

Pitfield - ?? ?? (London)

Tom Wood - Tom Wood's Harvest Bitter 4.3% (Lincolnshire)

From the brewery also known as Highwood's, this is a mellow beer, pale amber in colour with a slight hint of honey.

Ciders

These will be available in addition to the usual Cassels or Old Rosie. Ask for them at the main bar; we will fetch them from the cellar.