Archive for the ‘Abingdon Pubs’ Category
More Abingdon Beer Festivals
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 the Cross Keys, there are [...]
September 25, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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E-petition to Protect diversity of our town centres
Saturday’s protest in Abingdon against Tesco turning the former Ox pub into a Tesco Direct as reported in the Oxford Mail yesterday and the Abingdon Blog seemed to go well, although unfortunately I was unable to attend as I was still working as a volunteer at the Great British Beer Festival. An e-petition has now [...]
August 9, 2011
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Protest to Stop The Ox becoming a Tesco Direct
As reported last week on The Abingdon Blog, Tesco have started work converting The former Ox pub into a Tesco Direct. It has also been reported in The Oxford Mail and Abingdon Herald. Many local people are opposed to this as it is next to an existing recently opened convenience store, and the underhanded way [...]
August 4, 2011
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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
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Rehanging the Broad Face Sign
Dusty, the landlord of The Broad Face on Bridge Street will be hanging up the restored original pub sign (as featured on the front cover of the current issue of the Oxford Drinker) at the pub on the evening of Friday 4 March 2011. Local band, Full Circle, will be playing and hopefully it will [...]
February 26, 2011
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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
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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
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