UPDATE (Thursday evening): Our festival is still ON. We have followed guidance and put extra hygiene measures in place. We have received no advice to cancel. If we do receive that advice we will follow it. The welfare of our customers, volunteers, staff at the Beacon and anyone else present is our only concern. If you are showing any signs of the latest symptoms – a fever or ‘continuous’ cough’ – please, please do not attend, follow Government advice and self isolate. We are hoping to welcome everyone else to another fabulous festival, the beer we tapped this evening is amazing!

The 10th Wantage Beer and Cider Festival will take place from 11AM until 11PM on Friday the 13th and 11AM until 10PM on Saturday the 14th of March 2020, at the Beacon, Portway, Wantage, OX12 9BY. 28 real ales from throughout the country will be available, together with 4 ciders and 2 perrys. Food and soft drinks will be on sale, and there is parking at the venue.

Admission will be £2 (£3 Friday 5-11) for the general public, but free to card-carrying CAMRA members; under 21’s will need to show some ID. Glass hire is £2, and festival glasses will be available.

All Six Nations rugby games were to have been shown live on Saturday, but it seems that now only the Wales vs Scotland match at 2:15PM will go ahead. Fortunately, local musician Neil Dwerryhouse, “The man with the stereo hands!”, will be performing live at 8PM on Friday

Beer list (now confirmed, availability at the discretion of the bar manager):

Brewery	Name of Beer	ABV	Style
Anarchy	Blonde Star	4.0	Blonde ale
Ashton	Mosaic	4.4	APA
Barn Owl	Scutchamer Knob	4.2	Ruby ale
Bellingers	Moonlight	5.2	Red ale
Bond Brews	Alfred’s Ale	4.0	Best bitter
Broad Town	Fettlers Finest	3.6	English IPA
Butts	Torguide	5.0	IPA
Corinium	Whisky Barrel Aged	8.0	Barley wine
Dark Star	American Pale Ale	4.7	APA
Everards	Tighthead	3.9	Brown bitter
Facers	Don’t Give a Ruck	4.5	Blonde ale
Faringdon	Black as Your Soul	3.8	Dark mild
Hop Kettle Swindon	No Bad Days	5.6	West coast IPA
Indigenous	Chinwag	4.0	Best bitter
Listers	American Pale Ale	4.2	APA
Little Ox	Big Breakfast	5.5	Coffee stout
Love Beer	Barney Snuggles	3.9	English pale ale
Luna (White Horse)	Sputnik v2 Spl Aged	7.7	Imperial stout
Luna (White Horse)	Festival Special	4.4	APA
Milestone	Scotland the Brave	4.1	Bronze bitter
Potbelly	Best	3.8	Traditional bitter
Roosters	Mind Games	3.0	Pale ale
Salopian	Unavailable (sorry!)
Tap Social	Grebe’s Procession	5.5	Oatmeal stout
Titanic	Dr Rudi	4.4	Pale ale
Wadworth	Carrier Ale	3.6	Malty bitter
Wantage	Eternal E	4.1	Pale ale
White Horse	Endeavour	4.2	Dark gold

Cider and Perry list:

Producer	Name of Cider/Perry	ABV	Style
Gwatkins	Foxwhelp	6.0	Dry cider
Gwatkins	Squeal Pig	4.5	Medium perry
Mates	Jackdaw	5.6	Medium cider
Pangvalley	Midway	6.6	Medium cider
Ross On Wye	Ross Perry	5.5	Medium dry perry
Tutts Clump	Rhubarb	4.0	Medium sweet cider

We are most grateful for our beer, shirt and glasses sponsors:

Ashby Construction,
Gavin Warrington,
JT Stage Productions,
Mallers Kitchens, Wantage,
Shrivenham Football Club,
The Dolphin Gallery, Wantage,
The Lamb, (Wantage,
The Plough, West Hanney,
The Plumb Pudding, Milton,
The Royal Oak, Wantage,
The Shoulder Of Mutton, Wantage,
The Swan, Faringdon,
Wadsworth Brewery, Devizes,
Webbs Taxis, Wantage, and
White Horse Brewery, Stanford In The Vale.