Brewery tap beer cider & sausage festival this weekend, 4th – 6th december
The Brewery Tap Beer, Cider & Sausage Festival started this afternoon (Friday 4th December) and will run until close on Sunday evening. The pub is located on Ock Street in Abingdon. There are 30 different real ales, 8 ciders and 20 different types of sausage, including Steak & Marmite and other interesting flavours. There will [...]
December 4, 2009
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Roundup of Abingdon Pub news November 2009
I’ve been a bit busy recently and not kept things up to date, so here’s a quick round up of pub related things that have happened around town over the last few weeks The Kings Head and Bell reopened on 30th October. This is everything I expected it to be, good beer, reasonably priced food. [...]
November 20, 2009
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Oxford Beer Festival 2009
It is the Camra Oxford Beer Festival next week in Oxford town hall next week. It runs from Thursday 15th October at 5pm-11pm until Saturday when it closes at 8pm. There will be around 140 different ales and 20 real ciders and perry’s available. This is a good opportunity to try out beers that may [...]
October 7, 2009
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Brewery Tap increases its range of real ales
This week the Brewery Tap on Ock Street in Abingdon, one of the two entries in this year’s Good Beer Guide, will have some more real ales available at the bar. These are: White Horse – Wayland Smithy West Berkshire – Maggs mild. If there is enough support this may become permanently available Highgate – [...]
September 15, 2009
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Abingdon Brewery Tap improves beer range
The Brewery Tap on Ock Street in Abingdon, is now offering a wider choice of real ales with two hand punps being free of tie. Initially these include White Horse Brewery’s Wayland Smithy, and Slater’s Top Totty. The Brewery Tap has always been known for its quality of ale, and was the only pub in [...]
September 7, 2009
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West Berkshire Brewery Wins Bronze Medal at Great British Beer Festival
I have just heard that local brewery The West Berkshire Brewery has won bronze medal today at the Great British Beer Festival for its Dr. Hexters’s Healer The other winners include: Champion Beer of Britain: Rudgate Ruby Mild Silver: Oakham Attila In Abingdon, you can often find West Berkshire Beers including Doctor Hexters Healer at [...]
August 4, 2009
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Stocks Bar – Beer, Blues and Jazz Festival
As mentioned in the previous post, the Stocks bar in Abingdon has seen a huge improvement to its beer range and cellar quality over the last year to become one of the best real ale pubs in the Oxford area. It is holding its 3rd beer festival this weekend (Friday 3rd April – Monday 6th [...]
March 31, 2009
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Update on Abingdon Pubs over the last year
I haven’t made many blog entries recently, but now the summer is on its way, it is time to be more active. Pubs in Abingdon have seen some major improvements over the last year. After the take over and closure of the Morlands Brewery and Morrels Brewery by Greene King around the end of millenium, [...]
March 31, 2009
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Hop Harvesting, European Beer Festival
I have just made a blog post on the Oxford Brewer’s Group blog about hop harvesting Also, at the weekend I was in Copenhagen visiting the European Beer Festival. This was an amazing event with lots of interesting things. Expect some blog entries from me about this over the next few days. And thirdly… last [...]
September 15, 2008
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