Brewery tap beer cider & sausage festival this weekend, 4th – 6th december

The Brewery Tap Beer, Cider & Sausage Festival started this afternoon (Friday 4th December) and will run until close on Sunday evening. The pub is located on Ock Street in Abingdon.
There are 30 different real ales, 8 ciders and 20 different types of sausage, including Steak & Marmite and other interesting flavours.
There will [...]

December 4, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: abingdon, beer, beer festivals, pubs  No Comments

Roundup of Abingdon Pub news November 2009

I’ve been a bit busy recently and not kept things up to date, so here’s a quick round up of pub related things that have happened around town over the last few weeks
The Kings Head and Bell reopened on 30th October. This is everything I expected it to be, good beer, reasonably priced food. [...]

November 20, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: abingdon, beer  No Comments

Kings Head & Bell reopening soon

After nearly two years after closing due to structural problems with the historic building, the Kings Head & Bell on East St. Helens Street is due to reopen soon.
A large banner is hanging across the front of the pub proudly proclaiming that it will reopen on October 30th.
It looks like there is still a lot [...]

October 13, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: abingdon, pubs  No Comments

New Brewery for Oxford

A new craft micro brewery called the Shotover Brewing Company is due to
open soon in converted stables in Horspath just outside Oxford. The
owner and head brewer Ed Murray has been craft brewing for over twenty years
and has made the decision to turn his interest into a commercial venture.
It is anticipated that beer will be [...]

October 9, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Breweries, Craft Brewing, abingdon, beer, beer festivals  No Comments

Abingdon Pubs who are members of The Head Brewer’s Club

Greene King announced yesterday that The Brewery Tap in Abingdon has been chosen as an exclusive member of the new Head Brewer’s Club, a collection of Greene King’s hero cask ale pubs. It was picked due to its dedication to great cask beer.
You can read more details on Greene King’s Run a Pub blog
More [...]

October 9, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: abingdon, pubs  No Comments

Brewery Tap increases its range of real ales

This week the Brewery Tap on Ock Street in Abingdon, one of the two entries in this year’s Good Beer Guide, will have some more real ales available at the bar. These are:

White Horse – Wayland Smithy
West Berkshire – Maggs mild. If there is enough support this may become permanently available
Highgate [...]

September 15, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: abingdon, pubs  No Comments

Two pubs in Abingdon are awarded entry into the Good Beer Guide 2010

In previous years The Brewery Tap in Abingdon has been able to claim the accolade of being the only Good Beer Guide pub in Abingdon. This year however, it is joined by the Stocks Bar (at the Crown & Thistle Hotel) in the latest edition of the guide which was published last week.
The [...]

September 13, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: abingdon, pubs  No Comments

Abingdon Brewery Tap improves beer range

The Brewery Tap on Ock Street in Abingdon, is now offering a wider choice of real ales with two hand punps being free of tie. Initially these include White Horse Brewery’s Wayland Smithy, and Slater’s Top Totty.
The Brewery Tap has always been known for its quality of ale, and was the only pub in [...]

September 7, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: abingdon, beer, pubs  No Comments

West Berkshire Brewery Wins Bronze Medal at Great British Beer Festival

I have just heard that local brewery The West Berkshire Brewery has won bronze medal today at the Great British Beer Festival for its Dr. Hexters’s Healer
The other winners include:

Champion Beer of Britain: Rudgate Ruby Mild
Silver: Oakham Attila

In Abingdon, you can often find West Berkshire Beers including Doctor Hexters Healer at the Stocks Bar in [...]

August 4, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: abingdon, pubs  No Comments

A New Abingdon Brewery?

Abingdon may get its very own micro brewery soon. Since the Morland brewery was bought by Greene King in 1999 and subsequently closed down and converted into flats, Abingdon has been without a commercial brewery.
Loose Cannon Brewery have applied for planning permission on the Ashville Trading Estate 6 Suffolk Way, Abingdon, OX14 5JX [...]

July 7, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Breweries, Craft Brewing, abingdon, beer  One Comment