ACORN BREWERY of BARNSLEY - Barnsley CAMRA

ACORN BREWERY of 

BARNSLEY 

brewery tours by arrangement 

Contact the brewery for our range of 

seasonal beers and merchandise 

Tel: 01226 270734 

Fax: 01226 270759 

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A warm welcome awaits you at 

the family run, award winning 

historic Coaching Inn situated 

in the Peak District National 

Park, high up on the A628 

Woodhead Pass. 

• Four Real Ales 

• Fresh home cooked food 

• Families welcome 

• 10 en-suite bedrooms 

• Moorland views 

• Open log fire 

Open 12-3 (Not Mon) & 6-11; Sat & Sun 11-11 

BORD HILL - FLOUCH - BARNSLEY - S36 4HH 

Tues 31st October - Branch 

meeting and social at the Moulders 

Arms, Summer Street, Barnsley. 

Catch the number 14 bus at 

7:35pm, meeting starts at 8pm. 

Sat 11th and Sun 12th November - 

The 3rd South Yorkshire 

Wetherspoons crawl. This time 

including Lloyds Number 1 Bars. 

See our website at 

www.barnsleycamra.org.uk 

Sat 18th November - Day trip to 

Linthwaite and the Linfit brewery at 

the Sair Inn. Meet at Barnsley 

Railway Station 9:45am for the 

10:01am train to Huddersfield. 

Tues 21st November - The BAR 

Distribution Social, Pick up your 

copies of the BAR and help get 

them to the pubs around Barnsley. 

8pm start at the Gatehouse. 

Sat 25th November - An evening 

trip to Bradford for a Beer and Curry 

Night. Depart Barnsley at 6pm from 

Gatehouse. Return from New 

Beehive Bradford at 11:30pm. 

Remember - Book early. 

Tues 28th November - Branch 

meeting and social at Pack Horse, 

Royston. (A No Smoking Pub). 

Catch the 59 bus from Kendray St 

bus stop at 7:30pm, meeting starts 

at 8pm. 

Forward planners. 

Wed 6th December - Darfield 

Cricket Club, Club will be presented 

with Runner Up of Yorkshire Club of 

the Year 2006. 

Tues 19th December - Early 

branch meeting, social and 

Penistone pub crawl, Meeting starts 

at the Wentworth at 7:30pm. 

Sat 13th January - Not the 

Christmas Party on , at the Keel Inn, 

Canal Street, Barnsley. 7:30pm. 

Tues 30th January - Branch 

meeting at the Chambers, Peel 

Square, Barnsley. Starts at 8pm. 

Tues 27th February - AGM and 

branch meeting at the Joseph 

Bramah, Market Street, Barnsley (A 

No Smoking Pub). Starts upstairs at 

8pm. TBC 

Provisional dates for the next 

Barnsley CAMRA beer festival 

here at the Keel Inn are 

25th - 27th October 2007 


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Hidden just off the busy Old Mill Lane next to ASDA, 

we offer two changing guest beers from local micro 

breweries in top quality condition. The nautical theme 

of the pub reminds visitors of its location next to the 

now hidden remnants of the Aire and Calder 

Navigation canal which closed in the 1950’s. 

Within the pub are drinking areas of various sizes, 

from the lounge to the small conservatory snug. Our 

function room is available for parties and meetings, 

and has a large screen TV. 


WELCOME to the Barnsley Beer Festival. I hope 

you enjoy the wonderful selection of real ales on 

offer over the weekend – a mix of time honoured 

favourites and special festival ales. 

I am once again indebted to our main sponsor 

Acorn Brewery of Barnsley. 

While you’re choosing your beers and ciders, and 

having a great time out with friends please think 

about making a donation to our charity, Barnsley 

Domestic Violence Group or PATHWAYS as they 

are known. In the words of Pathways patron Ian 

McMillan “Domestic Violence isn’t a headlinegrabber. 

It’s not a natural disaster, it’s not a 

famine or an earthquake. And yet, in some ways, 

it is. It’s an unnatural disaster. It’s a famine of 

feeling, where people are hungry for love or a kind word, and it’s an earthquake of 

terror in a house down your street, across your road.” So please consider dropping 

any cash or unused tokens into the collection boxes… Thank You 

Everyone working at the festival here today is an unpaid volunteer. They are all 

CAMRA members who volunteer their time free of charge because they love real ale 

and are keen to promote it. Staff do get a small beer allowance but they only work at 

the event for the love of it! So please be patient at busy times, we will get to serve 

you. 

And finally, The consumption of alcohol may make you think that you are whispering 

when you are not. So please bear this in mind when you are leaving the festival, the 

neighbours may think you are loud and not actually whispering, and they could 

possibly be right. 

Jeremy Sykes, Festival Organiser 




Do you think it's right that... 

26 pubs are closing every month? 

8 out of 10 pints served contain less than 100% liquid? 

Of course you don’t and neither do we. If you want to find out more about your favourite real ales, 

campaign for greater consumer choice as well as helping to safeguard the future of British beer and 

pubs, then look no further - join CAMRA, the campaign for real ale today. 

It takes all sorts to campaign for real ale. In September 2006 we had around 84,000 members, 240 in the 

Barnsley area – but we still need your help. Our members are of all ages and interests who, above all, 

enjoy celebrating their favourite product – real ale. 

As a member you will enjoy: 

Membership of your local CAMRA group. 

• Subscription to our hard hitting Monthly Newspaper, What’s Brewing, with news about beer and 

brewing as well as information about the 140 + festivals we run a year. 

• Subscription to The BAR, the Barnsley CAMRA bi-monthly newsletter full of local news and 

events. 

• Free or reduced entry to all CAMRA beer festivals. 

• Discounts on CAMRA products including the best selling Good Beer Guide, available here. 

• Access to the members only section of the website. Which includes “special offers” exclusive to 

CAMRA members. 

Great Minds Think Alike 


If you are reading this any time after 

Thursday evening, you may notice that we 

have held a competition for the Champion 

Beer of the Festival. 

The judging takes place on Thursday evening 

when a selection of invited guests give 

evaluate the beers on offer. All the beers are 

numbered and judged anonymously. They 

are grouped with other beers of their kind 

when possible. The judges taste groups of 

beers and where one team might have bitters 

to judge, another team could be trying strong 

ales. Marks are awarded for taste, condition, 

clarity and aroma, and the winner of each 

section goes forward to the final. Any ties in 

marks are resolved by a vote between the 

team members. 

At all times the identity of the beers is kept 

secret until all the winners are decided. Then 

the tasting panels find out the names of their 

particular favourites at the same time as 

Thursday night customers. 

Once the winners are announced there is 

always a rush to try them. It would be nice to 

be able to predict the winner so we could 

order more casks, but alas it is not possible! 

Last years Gold and Silver award winners 

have made it back this year, the 2005 Gold 

Winner was Acorn Old Moor Porter and 

Silver Award Winner was H.B.Clarks Classic 

Blonde. 

Use the space below to write down this years 

award winners. 

2006 Champion Beers 

of the Festival 

Place Brewery Beer Abv 

Gold ______________ __________ ___ 

Silver _____________ __________ ___ 

Bronze ____________ __________ ___ 

Meals Served - Monday to Saturday 12-2pm & 5.30-8pm - Sunday 12-3pm 


Cheeky Pheasant (4.7% abv) Colour: Golden 

amber. An award winning premium ale 

balancing perfectly the full fruitiness of the malt 

with the bitterness of the hop. 

“A TRUE CLASSIC” 

Kings Shillin’ (4.5% abv) Colour: Pale Gold 

Top of the tree. Superb Styrian Goldings taste 

mixed with Maris Otter Malt – magnificent. 

George Wright Brewing Company, Unit 11, Diamond Business Park, 

Sandwash Close, Rainford, Merseyside WA11 8LY 

Sales: 01352 716791 - Brewery: 01744 886686 

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producers, especially for those who make 

only a small amount of cider. Harvest 

time for cider fruit is roughly from 

September to November and by October 

production is in full flow. 

CAMRA already have the month of May 

set aside as Mild Month and following on 

the success of the Mild campaign, 

CAMRA has now set October aside as 

Cider & Perry Month. 

At the festival we will have a selection of 

around ciders and a perry (cider made 

from pairs) . 

CIDER and PERRY List 

Unlike real ale production, which can 

happen at any time of the year, real cider 

& perry can only be made when the fruit 

1 Gwynt y Ddraig Dry Cider - 7% 

is ripe. Great skill goes into producing 2 McConnell Dry Cider - 6.3% 

both products. Great store is placed in 

3 Troggi Seidr Dry Cider - whole 

the quality of ingredients and variety of 

juice dry cider from Monmouthshire 

flavours created by the malt, hops, yeast 

orchards - 7% 

and water used to brew the beer. 

It is a Producer rather than a Brewer that 4 Ermies and Gerties Dry Cider - 7% 

makes cider & perry. They may use a 5 Rathays Old Goat Cider - 7.5% 

mixture of bittersweet and bittersharp 

cider apples or sweet dessert apples, or a 

6 Gwatkins Kingston Black 

mixture of the two to make cider; but 

Cider - 7.5% 

perry can only be made from specialized 7 Oliver’s Blakeney Red Sweet 

perry pears, which are high in natural 

Perry – made from a single variety 

tannin. 

of Blakeney Red perry pears - 7% 

The choosing, pressing and blending of 

8 Crossmans Home Orchard Special 

the fruit to make cider is just as much of a 

Cider - unfiltered, from Somerset 

craft as making beer and produces a vast 

cider apples - 7.5% 

range of tastes, styles and aromas, 

similar to those produced in fine wine. 9 Parsons Choice Sweet 

Like wine, each year's fruit produces a Cider - 6.8% 

unique vintage, so much so that cider and 10 Wilkins Sweet Cider - one of the 

perry have been sometimes called ‘The best-selling non-commercial 

Wine of the West'. 

ciders - 6% 

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Oakwell Brewery 

Barnsley, South Yorkshire 

Old Tom Mild 3.4% abv 

This dark mild is exported from Barnsley and is 

available throughout Britain, very rarely seen 

around Barnsley though. Enjoy. 

Barnsley Bitter 3.8% abv 

A nut brown coloured bitter with a roasty malt 

aroma. Dry, hoppy and roast malt flavour with 

a bitter finish. 

Salamander Brewery 

Bradford, West Yorkshire 

Salamander 3.8% abv 

A new session beer from this brewery. It is 

possible that the name of the beer will change 

as we go to print. 

Golden Salamander 4.5% abv 

Citrus hops characterise the aroma and taste 

of this premium beer, which has malt 

undertones throughout. The aftertaste is dry, 

hoppy and bitter. 

Thornbridge Brewery 

Bakewell, Derbyshire 

Blackthorn Ale 4.4% abv 

Blackthorn is a beautiful light golden ale with 

wonderful grapefruit and lemon aromas. This 

fruity brew benefits from an excellent medium 

body and biting bitterness to the finish. 

Jaipur IPA 5.9% abv 

Complex, well-balanced with a fine blend of 

citrus and other fruit flavours, mixed with a 

slight sweetness and ending with a lingering 

bitter finish. Hoppy and dangerously drinkable. 

Wentworth Brewery 

Rotherham, South Yorkshire 

Old Autumnal 5.5% abv 

A new strong seasonal ale. 

George Wright Brewing Company 

Rainford, Merseyside 

Kings Shillin’ 4.5% abv 

Top of the tree. Superb Styrian Goldings taste 

mixed with Maris Otter Malt – magnificent. 

Cheeky Pheasant 4.7% abv 

An award winning premium ale balancing 

perfectly the full fruitiness of the malt with the 

bitterness of the hop. 


Abbeydale 

Aizlewood Road, Sheffield 

Drop Hammer 4.3% abv 

This is a new mid-brown ale from the Sheffield 

brewery. 

Black Mass 6.6% abv 

A strong black stout, quite bitter and dry but full 

flavoured with characteristic hop aroma. 

Acorn Brewery of Barnsley 

Wombwell, Barnsley 

Barnsley Bitter 3.8% abv 

This Champion Bitter Beer of Britain (Silver) is 

brewed using finest quality Maris Otter malt and 

English hops. Chestnut in colour, well rounded 

and rich flavour with a lasting bitter finish. 

Silver Star 4% abv 

A festival special produced for Barnsley Beer 

Festival. 

Darkness 4.2% abv 

Aromatic roast malts give a deep red colour and 

Fuggles hops give a mild bitterness and aroma. 

Barnsley Gold 4.3% abv 

CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain Finalist 2004 

and Champion beer of Rotherham Oakwood 

Festival 2004. This golden beer has good 

bitterness levels, with a fresh citrus and hop 

aroma. 

Old Moor Porter 4.4% abv 

A full bodied Victorian style chocolate porter 

with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives 

way to smooth, mellow finish. Last years 

champion beer of the festival winner. 

IPA 5.0% abv 

Traditional India Pale Ale dominated by fruit and 

hops, light golden in colour with a flowery 

aroma. 

Gorlovka Imperial Stout 6% abv 

Named after the Ukrainian twin town of 

Barnsley, this brew is a deep ebony coloured 

imperial stout with bags of malt, spicy hop 

bitterness and a fruity dry finale. 


Bradfield Brewery 

Bradfield, Sheffield 

Festival Special ?.?% abv 

Nothing known about this special from the team 

at Bradfield, it will be good. 

Concertina Brewery 

Mexbrough, Doncaster 

Club Bitter 3.9% abv 

A fruity session bitter with a good bitter flavour. 

Elland Brewery 

Elland, West Yorkshire 

Bargee 3.8% abv 

Pale brown, grainy session bitter. Fruity aroma 

and taste complemented by a bitter edge in the 

aftertaste. 

Elland Back 4.6% abv 

Golden beer, with a light citrus scent. Very bitter 

and perfumed. Thick and silky on the palate. A 

really good beer. 

Fernandes Brewery 

Wakefield, West Yorkshire 

Malt Shovel Mild 3.8% abv 

A dark, full-bodied, malty mild with an 

abundance of roast malt and chocolate flavours, 

leading to a lingering, dry, malty finish. 

Empress of India 6% abv 

A strong, light-coloured, malty beer with a 

complex bitter palate. Fruit and malt dominate 

the aftertaste. 

Glentworth Brewery 

Skellow, Doncaster 

Light Year 3.9% abv 

Hoppy, crisp session beer, light in colour. 

G B Gold 4.5% abv 

A new light, hoppy premium bitter. 


H.B. Clarks & Co (Successors) Ltd 

Wakefield, West Yorkshire 

Classic Blonde 3.9% abv 

Gold and Silver Award Winning Ale at Barnsley 

Beer Festivals in the past. A light-coloured ale 

with citrus and hoppy flavour, a distinctive 

grapefruit aroma and a dry finish. 

Wendy's Blossoms 4.0% abv 

A festival special brewed using hops grown from 

the old Oakwell brewery. Now a secret supply 

grown locally in Barnsley, by Wendy. 

Rams Revenge 4.6% abv 

A rich ruby dark copper coloured ale. Well 

balanced with its roast barley and malt. It has a 

deep fruity taste with a smooth dry finish. 

Hammerhead 4.8% abv 

Amber coloured ale with a pleasant fruity palate 

and a long lasting flavour. 

Kelham Island Brewery 

Alma Street, Sheffield 

Festival Special 4% abv 

A Barnsley festival special beer produced by the 

makers of the award winning Pale Rider. 

Easy Rider 4.3% abv 

We provide cover for staff that are off 

sick, on holiday or have just not turned 

in for work. We support publicans to 

make their heavy workload a little 

easier and release some of the pressure 

absence can cause. 

A pale, straw-coloured beer with a sweetish 

flavour and delicate hints of citrus fruits. A beer 

with hints of flavour rather than full-bodied. 

Little Valley Brewery 

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire 

Hebden’s Wheat 4.5% abv 

Yellow coloured, hazy, fruity beer with aromas of 

coriander and lemon. 

Naylors Brewery 

Crosshills, Keighley, West Yorkshire 

Mothers Best 3.9% abv 

Well-balanced with plenty of malt and hop 

character, this mid-brown bitter has a pleasant 

fruity aroma and bitter aftertaste. 

Jacks Cauldron Special 4.8% abv 

This is a new seasonal beer. 

BAR-CODE AGENCY 

also provides training which includes: 

• Personal Licence Holder 

Qualification 

• Drugs Awareness 

• Professional Barpersons 

Qualification 

• And More... 

For more information about our 

services please see us at our stand 

during the festival or phone or call in 

and see us in our town centre office 

next door to the Citizens Advice Bureau 

and Barnsley Library.

ACORN BREWERY of BARNSLEY - Barnsley CAMRA

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