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Chums
MicroPub
22 Chandos Road, Redland
Bristol BS6 6PF
BRISTOL
Beer festival round-up
MetAle Festival
Gryphon, Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5AP. Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th
September. Part 2 of their biannual MetAle Festival, this year kicking
off their 6th birthday celebrations throughout September.
Factoberfest
Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Road, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 1TF. Friday
9th to Sunday 11th September. Expect over 60 different beers over three
days, live music, locally produced food and wonderful surroundings.
Lamplighters Ale and Cider Festival
Lamplighters, Shirehampton, BS11 9XA. Saturday 10th September,
noon to 8pm, with live music. Tickets £7 in advance, £8 on the door
(www.thelamplighters.co.uk).
Cheddar Ales 10th Anniversary Beer Festival
Cherrdar Ales Brewery, Dracott Road, Cheddar, BS27 3RP.
Saturday 10th September, noon to 6pm (family-friendly) and 7pm
to midnight (adults only). 20% off entry for card-carrying CAMRA
members (www.cheddarales.co.uk).
Chew Valley Beer Festival
Ubley Parish Hall, BS40 6PH. Friday 9th Spetember, 7pm to midnight,
and Saturday 10th September, noon to 4pm and 7pm to midnight.
Tickets £8.50 evenings (with live music), £5 Saturday lunchtime,
includes a commemorative glass (www.chewvalleybeerfestival.co.uk).
Volunteer Tavern Beer Festival
Volunteer Tavern, New Street, Old Market Quarter, Bristol, BS2 9DX.
Thursday 15th September to Sunday 18th September. Autumn Beer
Festival and 5th Birthday Party at the Bristol & District CAMRA Pub of
the Year 2016.
Hope and Anchor Beer Festival
Hope and Anchor, Jacobs Wells Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1DR.
Thursday 29th September to sunday 2nd October.
Chums Beer and Cider Festival
Chums, Candos Road, Redland, Bristol, BS6 6PF. Friday 23rd
September from 5pm, Saturday 24th noon to 11pm, and Sunday 25th
noon to 9pm. 20 beers and 10 ciders over the three days.
The Lansdown 30
Dawkins Tales
For Bristol Beer Week at the end of August Dawkins created a
special, one-off brew, aptly named The Unrepeatable: a blend of
ten, largely New World hop varieties in one 3.7% ABV brew. The
aim was to get the punchy, hoppy flavours of their award-winning 6.6%
Ultra but at a “sessionable strength”. Only around twenty casks were
available but a small bottling run means the beer will be available from
the end of August for those who missed it on tap.
There will soon be keg Dawkins beers available. On this subject,
brewery owner Glen Dawkins says: “Before cask aficionados splutter
into their pints, these will be ‘live’ beers with sediment, which mature
in the keg. Think of them as a giant bottle served on draught. Banish
thoughts of ‘smoothflow’. Numerous fellow microbrewers have
successfully blazed this trail already. Compared to cask they’ll naturally
be served livelier and cooler through fonts. We believe this style is best
suited for the hoppier type of beers, including the ones we’ve been
doing unfined for a little while now.”
The plan was to have one or two available at their open day during
the East Bristol Brewery Trail that launched Bristol Beer Week over the
bank holiday weekend.
The explosion of breweries – a fantastic thing in itself – has, though,
collided with a severe shortage of many New World hops, the type
greatly in demand from said brewers. Thankfully, British growers are
responding to the challenge and a recent Dawkins sell-out brew was one
made with the hop Olicana, a variety developed by Charles Faram in
Worcestershire. A 4.5% ABV blonde, unfined beer, itself called Olicana,
it displayed the citrus and tropical aromas and palate that are loved by
a good number of ale drinkers. The cask may have all gone – for now –
but bottles are just becoming available.
At the time of writing, over at Dawkins’ Bristol pubs they were
involved in preparing for Bristol Beer Week, with events such as tasting
offers, tap takeovers, food matching and more. And plans are afoot for
more good things for September’s national Cask Ale Week.
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BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL
23-25 SEPTEMBER
Opening Times
Monday to Thursday
4pm-10.30pm
Friday-Saturday
12noon-11pm
Sunday
12noon-10pm
(Last drinks served 30 minutes
before closing)
“one of the cheapest places in the city to enjoy
a beer, particularly when the pub always has
a choice of four high quality real ales on draught.”
BRISTOL POST, PUB OF THE WEEK, JAN 2015
OPENING TIMES: MON-SAT FROM 12PM. SUN FROM 2PM.
FOOD served 12-3pm mon-fri - SUN pies from 2pm
passage street, Bristol BS2 0JF
bridgeinnbristol.co.uk
The sixth beer festival at the Lansdown in Clifton, Bristol (BS8 1AF),
from 6pm on Friday 30th September and all day Saturday 1st October.
Over 20 ales from within a 30-mile radius of the pub, plus live music
and food.
St George’s Road Autumn Beer Festival
Joint festival with the Three Tuns, the Bag of Nails and the Lime Kiln.
Friday October 14th to Sunday October 16th. Details to be finalised,
but at the time of writing there was talk of “having tokens available
that will give customers the opportunity to get beer at a cheaper rate ...
exchangeable across all of the pubs ... available for purchase before the
festival starts.” Expect many beers, ciders and perries, seasonal food, a
possible barbecue, live music and opportunities to ‘meet the brewer’.
Bath CAMRA’s 1st Winter Ales Festival
Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6AA.
Friday 25th November (6pm-11pm) and Saturday 26th (11am-7pm).
Up to 30 cask beers and a selection of around half a dozen ciders and
perries. Admission £8: includes first £2 worth of beer tokens and a
further £2 worth of free beer tokens for CAMRA members. Advance
ticket purchase recommended: see www.bathandborderscamra.org.uk.
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