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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

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

Oxford Beer Festival 2009

It is the Camra Oxford Beer Festival next week in Oxford town hall next week. It runs from Thursday 15th October at 5pm-11pm until Saturday when it closes at 8pm.
There will be around 140 different ales and 20 real ciders and perry’s available. This is a good opportunity to try out beers that [...]

October 7, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: beer, beer festivals  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

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