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The Old Anchor Inn Beer Festival
The Old Anchor on St. Helen’s Wharf in Abingdon has a beer festival this weekend from Friday 16th July until Sunday 18th July. All of the beers are from local breweries, most of which are rarely or never seen in any Abingdon pubs. A provisional list is: Beer abv Brewery Quarry w-RECK-ed 5.5% Old Bog [...]
July 12, 2010
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Various Updates on Abingdon Pubs
The Railway Inn in Culham has The Festival That Dare Not Speak It’s Name this weekend (Friday 28th May – Monday 31st). This is a charity event featuring lots of live music with proceeds going to Churchill Partners Cancer Research UK and Young Women’s Music Project. The Flowing Well in Sunningwell has its beer festival [...]
May 26, 2010
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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
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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
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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 [...]
October 9, 2009
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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 may [...]
October 7, 2009
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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
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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 for [...]
July 7, 2009
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