Despite recent pub closures (Fitzharris, Ox, Nags Head and Plough), Abingdon is still a good place for pubs and real ale with many of the still open pubs offering a good range of real ales in good condition and frequent beer festivals. Following on from the recent beer festival at Read more »
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Cross Keys Beer & Music Festival
The Cross Keys is holding its first Beer & Music festival next weekend. This is going to be a busy weekend for Abingdon as it is also Abingdon Heritage Weekend on Saturday and Sunday and Fun In the Park on Sunday afternoon.
Kings Head & Bell’s 2nd Summer Beer Festival
The King’s Head and Bell on East St. Helen’s Street is holding its 2nd Summer Beer Festival this weekend. On Saturday, the Hook Norton draymen (Taffy and Roger Hughes) brought their shire horses to the pub. On Sunday afternoon, Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers will be doing some dancing and playing Read more »
Loose Cannon Pale Ale Trials
The Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon in Suffolk Way has just finished brewing a new beer. As with the Abingdon Bridge when it was launched last year, Will Laithwaite the owner and head brewer has made two different recipies, currently known as Trial Brew 1 and Trial Brew 2. They Read more »
Abingdon Beer Update: February 2011
I am sorry not to have posted anything here for several months. It has been quite an eventful time for Abingdon pubs. The Fitzharris Arms has closed down, currently boarded up and sold to Tesco. This was a community pub serving an area of Abingdon without any other pubs close Read more »


