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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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October Issue of Oxford Drinker Available

The October Issue of The Oxford Drinker, the newsletter of the Oxford branch of CAMRA (Campaign For Real Ale) is now available. You can pick up a free copy from most good pubs in the area. There are currently copies in the Brewery Tap, The White Horse and The Loose Cannon Brewery shop. They should [...]

October 1, 2010 · 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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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 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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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 · The Abingdon Drinker · One Comment
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