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Yet Another Local Micro Brewery
We have been told that a one-barrel plant is being installed
in the Swan
in Faringdon. The new outfit will trade, perhaps unsurprisingly,
as the Faringdon Brewery, and will be operated by Oak Taverns
who have a similar setup in the very popular Cross Keys in Thame.
The Swan itself is under new management, will
reopen after a complete refit in a month or so,
and plans to offer a range of six cask beers. Exciting times
in Faringdon, following on from the opening of the Portwell
Cellar Bar earlier in the year. More details when we get them.
Bank Holiday Beer Festival at the Fox and Hounds
The Fox and Hounds
in Uffington will be holding its third annual bank-holiday
beer festival from the evening of the 27th to closing time on
the 30th of August. This coincides with the local White Horse
show. Roughly 15 beers will be available, and live music will
be on offer.
Oxfordshire Pub of the Year Hat-trick for Royal Oak For the third year in a row, the Royal Oak in Wantage has been voted Oxfordshire CAMRA's pub of the year by the county's CAMRA branches. There will be a presentation of the award in due course. The Royal Oak is now competing for the Southern-Region CAMRA pub of the year award with other champion pubs from Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.
There will be a Vale of the White Horse CAMRA presentation for the
previous round of the competition at the Royal Oak on Wednesday 21st
July. All most welcome.
Arkells September 2010 Beer Festival
Swindon brewers Arkells will be holding a beer festival on Saturday September
11th at the Kingsdown Brewery. All proceeds will go to the local charity
Prospect Hospice. For more details see the Arkells'
website.
New Local Micro Brewery in Coleshill
We gather that a new micro brewery is being set up
at the Radnor Arms, Coleshil
by the same team who operate Halfpenny at Lechlade. Locals have come
up with name, the Forge Brewery, and Forge will install a four barrel
plant, in a converted outbuilding next to the pub, over the weekend
of 25-26 July. The first brew is expected off
the production line around August 14th, with an ongoing programme of
three brews per week thereafter. Four core beers have been chosen -
Anvil Ale 3.8%. Sledgehammer 5%. Hammer & Tongs 4.2%. Blacksmiths Gold 4%.
- with others to follow later in the year.
White Horse CAMRA now in Oxford Drinker
White Horse CAMRA is now providing copy for Oxford City CAMRA's
newsletter, "Oxford Drinker". The latest edition is available
online.
Printed copies of Oxford Drinker may be found in pubs throughout the
White Horse region.
White Horse Branch Beer Festival
Our second annual beer festival
was once again, we hope you will agree, a resounding success. Over six hundred
thirsty drinkers consumed almost all of the beer, cider and perry,
CAMRA signed up a White-Horse-record 34 new members (welcome one and all!) ...
and Festival workers now have their lives back.
Pitstop Star was voted beer of the festival,
Ridgeway's Bad Elf came second, with Thornbridge Jaipur IPA third.
Attendees and sponsors gave a generous £280 to the Festival charity, Soundabout.
We are already planning for next year's festival. Watch this space.
Further Pub closures
We can confirm that the
Thatched Tavern, Appleton,
True Hart, Bishopstone,
Leather Bottle, Challow Station,
Swan, Faringdon,
Snooty Fox, Littleworth,
Barrington Arms and Fat Dog in Shrivenham,
Royal Oak, Watchfield
and
Lamb, West Hanney
are all currently closed; The
Hind's Head, Kingston Bagpuize,
is apparently up for sale.
If you have further details, please let us know.
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