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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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Thought it was time to get a blog

Everybody else seems to have one, so now do I…. This will cover several subjects: Software Development – I run a software development company, developing software in C++, Java and whatever else is useful to solve a problem. We are focussing on small games devices at the moment, eg. mobile phones and custom made handheld [...]

April 15, 2007 · The Abingdon Drinker · One Comment
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