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White Horse Branch

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White Horse Branch Beer Festival in November

We are delighted to announce that the Branch will be organising a beer festival in Wantage on Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22nd of November. This is not the first Wantage beer festival - readers with long memories may recall a charity event in the early 1980s - nor the first CAMRA event - the as-was-then Vale-of-White-Horse-Sub-Branch organised one in East Challow in the early 90s. But it is certainly the first in a long time. We are intending to provide 28 cask ales, local and from far away, light and dark, strong and meek, as well as 6 ciders and 2 perrys. The Festival will take place in the Masonic Hall, Alfred Road, Wantage, OX12 8AN - left out of Mill Street, 50 yards from Town Square (see map).


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Public Transport

From/to Oxford by the X30/31 (Stagecoach) until the early hours, from/to Didcot by the 32 (Thames Transit) until approximately 6PM. There are less frequent services to Faringdon, Newbury and Swindon.

Get involved!

If you are a CAMRA member and would like to help at the festival (or in setting it up/dismantling it), please fill in our staffing form and email it back to us. Those working should read the staff briefing and volunteers' health and safety notes before they start.

Provisional Beer list

Disclaimer: availability of any particular beer during the course of the festival is at the discretion of the bar manager - we will only serve beer when and if we think it is fit to be served.

We hope to demonstrate the quality of our local breweries as well as expose you to beers not so easily found in this area ... and a few old favourites. The following beers will (almost certainly) be available.

Brewer Beer ABV
1648 Gold Angel 5.0
Archers Golden 4.5
Best Mates Alfies's 4.0
Best Mates Scutchamers Knob 3.7
Brakspear Special 4.3
Butts Jester 3.5
Butts Barbus Barbus 4.6
Crouch Vale Brewers Gold 4.0
Dark Star Hophead 3.7
Dark Star Sussex Stout 4.5
Durham Conqueror 4.9
Durham Benedictus 8.4
Greene King Crafty Old Hen 6.5
Morrissey Fox Blonde Ale 4.2
Pitstop Pole Position 5.0
Pitstop Sump 7.0
Rebellion IPA 3.7
Ridgeway Organic Bitter 4.3
Ridgeway Criminally Bad Elf 10.5
Ridgeway Seriously Bad Elf 9.0
Tring Side Pocket for a Toad 3.6
Triple fff Alton's Pride 3.8
West Berkshire Maggs Magnificent Mild 3.9
West Berkshire Dr Hexter's Healer 5.0
White Horse Festival 4.3
White Horse Wayland Smithy 4.4
Wychwood Hobgoblin 4.5
Yates (IoW) Undercliff Experience 4.0
Yates (IoW) Holy Joe 4.9




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Last updated: November 18th 2008
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