Wantage Beer And Cider Festival 2019
Wantage Beer and Cider Festival 2019
The 9th Wantage Beer and Cider Festival took place from 11AM until 11PM on Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th of March 2019, at the Beacon, Portway, Wantage, OX12 9BY. 28 real ales from throughout the country were available, together with 4 ciders and 2 perrys. Food and soft drinks was on sale.
The festival was open from 11 until 11 both days. Admission was be £2 (£3 Friday 5-11) for the general public, but free to card-carrying CAMRA members; under 21’s needed to show some ID. Glass hire was £2, and festival glasses were available.
All Six Nations rugby games was shown live on Saturday, and local Musician Neil Dwerryhouse, “The man with the stereo hands!”, gave an excellent performance live after the games at 8PM.
Beer list:
| Brewery | Name of Beer | ABV | Style |
| Amwell Springs | Chairman Dave | 3.5 | Pale Ale |
| Ashover | Rattle Imperial Red | 7.4 | Red IPA |
| Barn Owl | Old Scruttock’s Inscrutable | 3.9 | New English Bitter |
| Bellingers | Pathfinder | 4.3 | Continental Lager |
| Broken Bridge | Cofffee Chocolate & Orange Porter | 4.6 | Orange Porter |
| Butts | Barbarosa | 4.7 | Bitter fortified with Port |
| Castle Rock | Arthur Skill | 4.2 | Coffee Stout |
| Clavell & Hind | Coachman | 3.8 | Golden Ale |
| Corinimum | Firebird | 4.0 | English Bitter |
| Glamorgan | Try Time | 4.0 | Copper Bitter |
| Goffs | Jester Brew No 3 | 4.8 | Special Bitter |
| Hop Kettle | Tropic Cloud | 6.5 | West Coast IPA |
| Hydes | Kansas State Glass Cat Pale | 4.3 | Pale Ale |
| Indigenous | Tickety-Boo | 4.2 | Golden Ale |
| Innformal | San Frinncisco | 5.9 | West Coast IPA |
| Kew | Pagoda Number 11 | 4.7 | Pale Ale |
| Little Ox | Bamm-Bamm | 4.8 | IPA |
| Loose Cannon | Shawshank Fermentation | 3.6 | Dark Mild |
| Love Beer | Mild Rover | 4.5 | Mild |
| Luna | Keplers’ Law | 4.5 | Tropical Stout |
| Lymestone | Pounamu | 4.0 | Golden Ale |
| Magpie | Wanderers | 3.8 | Session IPA |
| Red Cat | Driftwood | 5.4 | Oaked IPA |
| Steam Town | Bishop’s Gold | 4.6 | Golden Bitter |
| Titanic | First Class | 3.8 | Amber Bitter |
| Wadworth | Alternate Currant | 4.6 | Blackcurrent Bitter |
| Wantage (Brewed at Bicester) | King of Wessex | 5.2 | Traditional IPA |
| White Horse | Moon Stallion | 3.9 | Pale Bitter |
Cider and Perry list:
| Producer | Name of Cider/Perry | ABV | Style |
| Snails Bank, Herefordshire | Orchard Dry | 5.2 | Dry Cider |
| Harry’s, Somerset | ‘Scrummage’ Medium Farmhouse | 6.2 | Medium Cider |
| Tutts Clump, Berkshire | Rhubarb | 4.0 | Medium Sweet Cider |
| Charlton Collective, Wantage | Lost Afternoon | 6.0 | Medium Dry Cider |
| Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire | Ross Perry | 5.5 | Medium Dry Perry |
| Oliver’s, Herefordshire | Traditional | 6.0 | Medium Dry Perry |
We are most grateful for our beer, shirt and glasses sponsors:
Ashby Construction,
Coleman & Coleman Jewellers, Wantage,
Dolphin Art, Wantage,
Mallers Kitchens, Wantage,
Shrivenham Football Club,
The Kings Arms, Wantage
The Plough, West Hanney,
The Royal Oak, Wantage,
The Sholuder Of Mutton, Wantage,
The Swan, Faringdon,
Wadworth Brewery, Devizes,
Webbs Taxis, Wantage, and
White Horse Brewery, Stanford In The Vale.