Our fifth beer festival is taking place from Tuesday 15th November to Tuesday 22nd November.

Beers

An up-to-date list of beer in the pub is shown on the Drinks page. 24 of the beers will be on the stillage in the public bar, and the rest will be cycled through the handpumps. This is the list of beers for the festival:

Batemans - Salem Porter 4.7 (Lincolnshire)

A porter with a dry roast, nutty palate and rich malty after-taste.

Brewsters - Marquis 3.8 (Leicestershire)

A well balanced and refreshing session bitter with maltiness and a dry, hoppy finish.

Brewsters - Daffy's Elixir 4.2 (Leicestershire)

A best bitter with a pale golden appearance. Two English hops combine to give a well balanced beer with a big hop finish. This beer won a silver medal at the Beauty Of Hops Competition in 2004 under its development name, Sunshine. The Reverend Daffy was an eccentric 17th Century Vicar from the Vale who sold his elixirs as "cure alls".

Brewsters - Rutterkin 4.5 (Leicestershire)

A premium bitter with a golden appearance. A zesty hop flavour from American Mount Hood hops combines with a touch of malt sweetness to give a rich, full bodied beer.

Brewsters - Brunhilde 4.8 (Leicestershire)

Buffy's - Lite Relief 4.1 (Norfolk)

Vanilla in both aroma and taste is the dominant feature in this amber brew. The basic maltiness is subdued by a dryish hop background. The flavour speedily diminishes to a sweet vanilla echo.

Buffy's - Bitter 3.9 (Norfolk)

Copper coloured with a subtle hop and malt bouquet.

Crouch Vale - Essex Boy's Bitter 3.5 (Essex)

A pale brown beer with plenty of pleasing malt and hop flavour despite the low gravity. Unputdownable!

Crouch Vale - Crouch Best 4.0 (Essex)

This mid-brown beer is wonderfully full bodied and malty. A classic 'best' and an established local favourite which aims to please and succeeds time and time again. Definitely moreish!

Eccleshall - Slaters Top Totty 4.0 (Staffordshire)

A light, straw-coloured bitter with a big hoppy aroma. The hops with fruit produce a full bitter finish.

Eccleshall - Slaters Shining Knight 4.5 (Staffordshire)

No dominant flavours but hops and fruit combine in the bitter finish, A good session beer for its strength.

Eccleshall - Slaters Bitter 3.6 (Staffordshire)

Golden Bitter with a hop and fruit aroma. Hoppiness develops to a good bitter finish.

Eccleshall - Slaters Premium 4.5 (Staffordshire)

A full flavoured amber beer with a smoked maltiness balanced by a citrus fruit - belies its strength.

Eccleshall - Slaters Supreme 4.7 (Staffordshire)

Copper-coloured bitter with a fresh fruity and hoppy aroma; sweet start and a dry bitter finish.

Fenland - Amber Solstice 4.1 (Cambridgeshire)

Fenland - Smoke Stack 4.2 (Cambridgeshire)

Beautifully balanced brew. This black nectar has stunning red highlights as is is raised to drink. An initial malty aroma is finely complemented by a roasted and complex scent. The first sip suggests a mild but it is a beer with a satisfying hop bite.

Frog Island - Natterjack 4.8 (Northamptonshire)

Deceptively robust, golden and smooth. Fruit and hop aromas fight for dominance before the grainy astringency and floral palate give way to a long dry aftertaste with a hint of lingering malt.

Frog Island - Shoemaker 4.2 (Northamptonshire)

An amber bitter with an orangey aroma of fruity Cascade hops which is balanced by malt. Citrus and hoppy bitterness lasts into a long, dry finish.

Jarrow - Rivet Catcher 4.0 (Tyne&Wear)

Silver medal winner at the Great British Beer Festival in the new Golden Ales category. Developed from a home-brew recipe this fantastic bitter is named after one of the many jobs in a ship yard.

Jarrow - Bitter 3.8 (Tyne&Wear)

A refreshing ale with a good body. A decent solid bitter.

Jarrow - Old Cornelius 4.8 (Tyne&Wear)

Named in honour of the oldest surving Jarrow marcher (who has since died). A deep ruby-red ale. Quite full bodied with a malty sweetness, weaker (4.8%) than it tastes. Some hop balance that develops into a pleasant bitter edge on the finish.

Jarrow - Joblings Swinging Gibbet 4.1 (Tyne&Wear)

Amber best bitter using a toffeeish pale malt like Marris Otter, with some pleasant English type earthy/citric hops.

Jarrow - Westoe IPA 4.6 (Tyne&Wear)

Jarrow - Palmers Resolution 3.8 (Tyne&Wear)

Dry hopped beer of a copper gold colour with good spicey hop, burst of red fruit in mouth with nice hop/fruit finish. Good session bitter.

Jennings - Red Breast 4.5 (Lake District)

Brewed with two classic English cone hops and natural coloured malt, drinks with full flavour for a warming glow.

Milton - Jupiter 3.5 (Cambridgeshire)

The perfect session bitter - superbly full of flavour and bitterness for its strength.

Milton - Pegasus 4.1 (Cambridgeshire)

Former champion beer of East Anglia, this classic bitter has a perfect balance of bitterness and malt flavours. Very moreish!

Milton - Minotaur 3.3 (Cambridgeshire)

A full flavoured chocolate/coffee mild only 3.3% but packed with flavour.

Milton - Jericho 4.8 (Cambridgeshire)

A sherbert hop character comes forward in this delicious pale ale.

Milton - Nero 5.0 (Cambridgeshire)

In the landlord's humble opinion Milton's best beer. A full bodied oat stout with hints of chocolate and coffee with a superb bitter finish. One of the blackest beers around and now vegan!

Milton - Cyclops 5.3 (Cambridgeshire)

Deep copper coloured ale, with a rich hoppy aroma, full body, fruit and malt notes develop in the finish. Brewed with three different malts and four different varieties of hops.

Milton - Sparta 4.3 (Cambridgeshire)

A special beer that has proved so popular it has been added to the regular milton brews. Pale in colour and decidedly hoppy with a characteristic Milton bitterness.

Nottingham - Extra Pale Ale (EPA) 4.2 (Nottingham)

Very pale exquisitely citrusy hoppy beer. Back by popular demand (by the landlord mainly).

Nottingham - Sooty Oatmeal Stout 4.8 (Nottingham)

A traditional classic oatmeal stout brewed to an original recipe. "It's food and drink in a glass." Champion Beer of the 2002 Cambridge CAMRA Beer Festival. Available in Winter only.

Potton - Village Bike 4.3 (Cambridgeshire)

Classic English premium bitter, amber in colour, heavily late hopped. Champion beer of Bedfordshire 2003.

Potton - Night Fighter 4.0 (Cambridgeshire)

A dark malty beer with a light hop character.

Rudgate - On Yer Bike 3.9 (Yorkshire)

Rudgate - Old Glory 4.3 (Yorkshire)

Rudgate - Well Blathered 5.0 (Yorkshire)

A premium golden ale.

Rudgate - Special 4.5 (Yorkshire)

A hoppy pale ale.

Rudgate - King Hrauding 4.5 (Yorkshire)

A dark ale for this God of the Goths. Full rounded flavours well balanced to give a smooth yet fruity finish.

Roosters - Eagle Eye 3.9 (North Yorkshire)

Crystal is the aroma hop in this beer. Nice tangerine aroma. Easy drinking.

Sharps - Cornish Coaster 3.6 (Cornwall)

Straw coloured session ale with a fresh hoppiness merged with a sweet biscuit malt, finishing with a wonderful hop bite. Full of flavour for its strength.

Sharps - Doom Bar 4.0 (Cornwall)

A justly famous beer. Fully malted ale with superb balance and complexity. On the palate a clean and light body of crunchy malt is complimented by a subtle lightly hopped finish. Named after the infamous Doom Bar sand bank in the Camel estuary.

Tring - Huck me Buck 4.4 (Hertfordshire)

A classic bitter with good caramel sweetness balanced with a bitter finish.

Wychwood - The Dogs Bollocks 5.2 (Oxfordshire)

Dog's Bollocks was first brewed in 1994/5 and quickly became a classic with cult status. Described as 'big, round and fruity', Dog's is a full-bodied Golden Retriever-coloured brew. It combines Cara malt and malted wheat with Styrian hops from Slovenia to give a bite of fruit flavours.

Vale - Black Swan Dark Mild 3.3 (Buckinghamshire)

Dark and smooth.

Vale - Wychert Bitter 3.9 (Buckinghamshire)

Pale amber ale. Full bodied and full flavoured with nutty / fruit undertones.

Ciders and Perries

The following ciders and perries will available during the festival:

Food

There will be a daily special in addition to our normal menu:

Tuesday

Chilli con Carne made with Milton Nero and Minotaur

Wednesday

Marco's Pasta with "Ragu" homemade Italian meat sauce

Thursday

Bangers and Mash - Cumberland sausages with creamy mash and onion gravy

Friday

Thai Green Chicken Curry with Jasmine rice

Saturday

Beef curry with pilau rice and poppadum

Sunday

Marco's Boscaiella made with Brazilian steak and aubergines

Monday

To be decided...