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June Edition of Oxford Drinker

The June issue of The Oxford Drinker is now out. Copies of the free magazine should appear in Abingdon pubs that serve real ale over the next few days. If you can’t wait until then, or for some other reason can’t get out to your local pub, you can read it online here Articles of [...]

June 3, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Broad Face 1st Beer Festival Preview

The 1st Broad Face Beer festival starts today and continues over the weekend. There is a good range of beers, many from local breweries including Old Bog‘s Monstrous Mild which was recently awarded ‘beer of The Wantage Beer Festival‘.

April 1, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Brewery Tap Beer Festival roundup

The Brewery Tap beer festival last weekend was very successful… almost too successful with approximately 1600 pints of beer & cider in the beer tent sold on Friday & Saturday leaving only the 6 ales at the bar left on Sunday. First beer to sell out was WB-40, a limited edition beer brewed by the [...]

April 1, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Abingdon Beer Festivals – March/April

There’s quite a few real ale related events going on in Abingdon over the next few weeks, coinciding with the Abingdon Arts Festival. This weekend (Friday 25th to Sunday 27th March) sees the Brewery Tap‘s Beer, Cider, Music & Sausage festival. This features 12 beers in the beer tent, 6 at the bar, and 6 [...]

March 23, 2011 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Round up of Abingdon Pub News – September 2010

There are rumours that The Plough on Stert street may shut again soon. It only reopened a couple of months ago at the start of July after being closed for several months prior to that. It seems that most of the regulars made other pubs into their regular during the period it was closed and [...]

September 4, 2010 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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The Plough is Reopening

There is a notice of the window in the Plough on Stert Street saying that it will be reopening on 1st July. I don’t know any more at this stage, but if I find anything out I’ll update this post. The Plough is a classic local pub, with a pool table, darts board and TVs. [...]

June 24, 2010 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Brewery Tap’s Second Beer, Cider and Music Festival

The Brewery Tap, Ock Street, Abingdon is holding its second beer & cider festival at The Brewery Tap between Friday 26th and Monday 29th March. The first was in December 2009, and had an excellent range of beers combined with an amazing range of sausages. The Brewery Tap are planning to hold four festivals a [...]

March 22, 2010 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Feb 2010 Issue Oxford Drinker Available

The Oxford CAMRA branch’s newsletter for Feb/March 2010 has now been published. It includes news, articles and information about pubs and breweries in the Oxford and White Horse branch areas. Free copies can be found in most real ale pubs. In Abingdon this includes Brewery Tap, Stocks Bar, Punchbowl, King’s Head & Bell, Spread Eagle, [...]

February 6, 2010 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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Wantage Beer Festival

The Wantage beer festival takes place today and tomorrow. This is organized by the White Horse branch of CAMRA and features 30 real ales from local breweries, as well as cider and perry. For more information please visit www.whitehorsecamra.org.uk/beerfestival.htm It is open between 11am-11pm on Friday 20th November and Saturday 21st November. Stagecoach number 31 [...]

November 20, 2009 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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This blog

This blog is not really working as I had planned… I had expected to post mostly technical stuff about software development, but it has actually turned out to be mostly about brewing and pubs. Now that this is also syndicated on my company’s web site I plan to split the blog into two. One for [...]

April 29, 2008 · The Abingdon Drinker · No Comments
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