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Real ale and Cider festival

We are really excited about this year’s beer festival. This festival’s beer list sets the record for the highest number of new beers, festival/special brews and speciality beers; it equals the record for the number of beers never featured before.
Speciality beers include wheat beers, a cask lager and beers variously flavoured with blackcurrant, chocolate, coffee, coriander, ginger, hazelnut, juniper, strawberry and vanilla.

As usual, there is a good range of ABVs, colours, styles and sizes of brewery, as well as a good geographical spread, including beers from the Isle of Man and Jersey.

Three of the international brewers have never before been featured by Wetherspoon, as well as two of the British brewers. This is also the first time that we have featured brewers from Italy and Sri Lanka.

It should be noted that this is the 20th anniversary of the first Wetherspoon beer festival, held in October 1990. To mark the occasion, we are featuring Moorhouse’s Pendle Witches Brew, one of the six beers featured in that first festival, with a special version of the pump clip mentioning this fact.


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As a matter of interest to anyone, i am staging a brewing demonstration at the Job Bulman Wetherspoons on Gosforth High Street Newcastle tomorrow 30/10/10. Hoping to mash in at around 1.30pm. should be a good day.

En-route back home today and I saw some POS flashcards and a flyer at 'the windmill' in Stansted airport today. I normally avoid it as when I pass through (early mornings on a Friday) it's invariably stuffed with stag/hen parties swilling stella/magners and troughing fried breakfasts.

Beer festival though drew me in.

Full marks. I tried Lion Stout (good), an APA from two Sam Adams brewers made with English grown wet hops (better) and the very best was a Juniper spiced amber ale from the Netherlands. £3 for 3x 1/3rd pint taster glasses and a delightful punctuation on a days commuting... even if the sun wasn't past the yard-arm!

Had a fab 3 beers yesterday, Wheat Dreams a clear wheat beer yum!, Samual Adams Blonde Ambition yummy! & Shepherd Neame Cinque Ale yum!

I can highly recomend poping into a JDW over the next few days and sampling a few brew!

Steve

carpet19 wrote:As a matter of interest to anyone, i am staging a brewing demonstration at the Job Bulman Wetherspoons on Gosforth High Street Newcastle tomorrow 30/10/10. Hoping to mash in at around 1.30pm. should be a good day.

How did it go Ken?

I believe Kay is the manager there? I was speaking to her partner Tony (my postman) this morning about the place.