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White Horse Branch Beer Festival
Radnor Arms is Central Southern CAMRA Pub of the Year 2011
The
Radnor Arms in Coleshil
has deservedly been voted Central Southern Region CAMRA 2011 pub of the year
in a tough competition involving the CAMRA county champions from
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. This is the third time
in four years that a White Horse CAMRA pub has been awarded this accolade.
The Radnor Arms will now compete with 15 other pubs from throughout the
UK in CAMRA's National competition.
The award will be presented on Tuesday 1st November sometime just after 8PM.
Many congratulations, once again, to Alan, Gemma and the team.
Royal Oak named one of the top four national CAMRA Cider Pubs of the Year 2011
The
Royal Oak
in Wantage, long renouned for its cask beers, has added another feather to
its cap by being named both 2011 Central Southern CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year,
and one of the top four in the National competition.
The Southern Region
competition is open to all pubs in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire,
and awarded on the basis of the range and quality of draught
cider and perry on sale.
As visitors to the Royal Oak will know, there are commonly eight-twelve
examples on offer from throughout the UK.
As far as we are aware, the Royal Oak is the first pub in the UK ever
to make the top four in both the beer and cider/perry competitions.
The Royal Oak truly is unique!
Upcoming beer festivals
The Steventon Sports Club will be holding its beer festival from
the 18th to 20th November. A "meet the brewer" event will take
place on the Saturday afternoon.
Wantage pub installs ten beer engines!
The Shoulder
Of Mutton in Wantage has augmented its three beer engines to take
the total to ten. Although the intention had been to use two of
these for cider, such has been the demand on them that cider has
been relegated to "standard" boxes beside the bar.
The pub will use eight for beer and the remaining
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.
Further Pub closures
We can confirm that The
True Hart, Bishopstone, The Volunteer, Grove and the
The Star, Sparsholt are currently closed.
The derelict Royal Oak, Watchfield, is in very bad shape
and due for demolition. The Crown, Marcham, is up for auction,
while the Thatched Tavern, Appleton and
Leather Bottle, Challow Station are closed for good (bad),
and have been converted into houses.
The Snooty Fox, Littleworth, is now an Indian restaurant,
the Snooty Mehmann.
as is the Lamb, West Hanney, the Hanney Spice.
If you have further details, please let us know.
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