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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. The list of beers will include: White Horse – Black Horse Porter West [...]

September 4, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 music from 2pm. Hook Norton [...]

August 28, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Latest Beer at the Brewery Tap

Click the image to see the beers currently being served at the Brewery Tap in Abingdon, and what is in the cellar waiting to come on. If enough people are interested in this kind of info, I could set up a mailing list, forum or database and also ask other local pubs to provide information [...]

August 15, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Quick Round up of Abingdon Pub / Brewery News

Loose Cannon Brewery The Loose Cannon Brewery is now selling Abingdon Bridge and Loose Cannon Pale in pint bottles. Currently available from the brewery shop in Suffolk Way off Drayton Road, at £2/bottle or case of 12 for £21.50. You can of course still buy it directly from the conditioning tanks in plastic PET bottles [...]

August 1, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 are made from the same [...]

February 18, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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This Week’s Beers Available at Brewery Tap

The Brewery Tap in Ock Street has a changing selection of real ales with a mixture of locally brewed ales, award winning beers from further afield and a good selection from Greene Kings guests. For this week (7th February) they have: Morland’s Original 4.0% WEST GATE Suffolk 3.05 RUBY BROWN. Original is a fully fermented, [...]

February 7, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 by. The nearest pub is [...]

February 7, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Abingdon Brewed Beer available

After much anticipation over recent months, the Brewery Tap on Ock Street is the first pub to take deliveries of beer from the new Loose Cannon Brewery, Abingdon’s first commercial brewery since the Morland Brewery was closed 10 years ago. The pub will be serving two beers: Abingdon Bridge Trial 1 and Abingdon Bridge Trial [...]

August 10, 2010 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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