Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA Brewers Challenge (judged at the festival):
Winner – Three Tuns Clerics Cure
Runner-up – Salopian Dead Drop
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Shrewsbury Beer Festival will take place 22-24 September 2016. Hours will be 11-11 Thursday and Friday, 11-9 (or a bit later if there’s beer left) on Saturday
Updated Beer List 20 September 2016
Bar 1
Check gravity list for beers you don’t see here (at stage end)
| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description |
| Atom | Singularity | 3.5 | The Science of Brewing |
| Atom | Critical Temperature | 6.5 | The Science of Brewing |
| Bass | Draught | 4.4 | Brewed with two strains of yeast to produce a complex nutty, malty taste with subtle hop undertones |
| Battledown | Natural Selection | 4.2 | Golden ale, with malts evident and triple hop with a spicy and slightly citrus finish. |
| Battlefield | 1066 | 4.2 | Darker ale with rich malt and striking hop aromas |
| Big Shed | Tyger Tyger | 4.2 | Medium strength predominantly pale malt plus substantial bittering and aroma hops. |
| Black Brook | Pale Ale | 4.0 | A new brewery from Mold |
| Black Brook | Breakfast | 4.5 | A milk stout |
| Black Horse | Queens | 4.4 |
Bar 2
Check gravity list for beers you don’t see here (next to bar 1at stage end)
| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description |
| Black Market | Illicit | 4.5 | |
| Brentwood | Hope and Glory | 3.8 | Red premium bitter. Malt flavours light hops flavour, lingering bitterness. |
| Brown Cow Alchemy | Boudicow | 3.8 | American Pale Ale |
| Brown Cow Alchemy | Alcowmy | 4.0 | Roasted chocolate and coffee, balanced with citrus and tropical fruit hop flavours |
| Bude | Black Rock Porter | 5.1 | Dark ale with blackberry aroma and smoky and chocolate notes with a distinctive black olive aftertaste |
| Buffy’s | Mucky Duck | 4.5 | Chocolate and roasted tones |
| Buffy’s | Norwegian Blue | 4.9 | Malt and fruit |
| Burton Bridge | Staffordshire Knot Brown | 4.8 | Brown Ale |
| Caythorpe | One Swallow | 3.6 | golden bitter, well hopped |
Bar 3
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| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description |
| Chapel | Angel’s Share | 4.0 | Blonde beer. A delicate, floral nose and a herbal spicy taste. |
| Chapel | Last Supper | 4.7 | Passion fruit, lychee and grapefruit notes. |
| Charnwood | IPA | 5.8 | Amber-coloured IPA. Tropical and citrus flavours and a pine and spice finish |
| Clun | Solar | 4.3 | Elderflower |
| Derby | White House Honey | 4.6 | Blonde fruity beer with local Derbyshire honey added |
| Frog Island | Fire Bellied Toad | 5.0 | Golden brown, single hopped with English phoenix hops |
| G2 | Crux | 4.8 | Tropical taste and delicious spicy undertone |
| Gorgeous Beer Co | Golden Bitter | 3.8 | From a new local brewery |
| Lincoln Ale | Imperial Ale | 3.8 | TBA |
Bar 4
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| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description |
| Ludlow | Blonde | 4.0 | Lemony, citrus aroma, crisp citrus notes in taste |
| Mallinsons | Ahtanum | 3.8 | Single Ahtanum hop. Pale golden ale, aroma of lychees, fruit flavours, clean finish. |
| Pickled Pig | Pigs Can Fly | 3.9 | Blonde ale |
| Pig and Porter | Dream More | 4.2 | Pale, mosaic hop, mango flavours |
| Salopian | Dead Drop | 4.7 | Golden beer with a lingering clean palate, a crisp body and a prolonged finish. |
| Shiny | Pail: Comet and Pekko | 4.0 | Same grist, different pail full of hop each time! |
| Shropshire Brewer | Spire Dancer | 4.2 | Golden ale |
| Six Bells (main sponsor) | Dark Angel | 5.6 | Very hoppy porter |
| Six Bells (main sponsor) | Sutra | 4.6 | New beer from our main sponsor |
Bar 5
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| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description
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| Six Bells (main sponsor) | Karma | 4.6 | New beer from our main sponsor |
| Sperrin | Beer Me Up Hoppy | 4.8 | |
| Stonehouse | Zephyr | 3.8 | A new beer from Stonehouse is an event to note. A pale beer with delicate hints of tropical fruit hops |
| Swan | Cygneture | 3.6 | Chestnut ale. |
| Swan | Lilly Little Legs | 4.4 | |
| Three Tuns | Clerics Cure | 5.0 | Light-tan, medium malty sweetness spicy, floral bitterness and hop character |
| Village | Old Raby | 4.8 | Dark ale, sweet aftertaste |
| Wood | Summer Breeze | 3.9 | Citrus aroma. Tangerine hopped bitterness. |
| Rowton | Medieval Mild | 3.3 | Mild made with Bog Myrtle |
Bar 6
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| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description
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| Holden’s | Black Country Mild | 3.7 | Chestnut red mild with a hint of chocolate |
| Hobsons | Champion Mild | 3.2 | chocolate malt nutty dark mild. |
| Firehouse | Mainwaring Mild | 3.6 | A dark nutty mild. From a 1940’s Wartime recipe |
| Church End | Gravediggers Ale | 3.8 | Dark black and red. |
| Church End | Vanilla Jack | 3.8 | Chocolatey, roasted. Added vanilla and Jack Daniels |
| Byatts | XK Dark | 3.5 | Malty. Bitter chocolate and blackberries and a lingering bitterness. |
| Black Country Ales | Pig on the Wall | 5.6 | Refreshing chestnut brown beer. Chocolate and coffee undertones. |
| Brampton | Mild | 4.9 | Dark mild. Coffee, toffee and caramel tones |
| Bathams | Mild | 3.5 | Sweet and well-balanced dark brown ale with a hoppy, fruity finish |
Gravity Beers
These beers ARE AVAILABLE NOW, and will be moved to a pump when one is available. Ask at bar 1 (Stage end) for service
| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description
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| Firehouse | Woodman Pale | 4.4 | A golden fruity sweetish bitter with a dry hoppy finish. |
| Magpie | Eight is a wish | 4.2 | British hops, Belgian fruit twist |
| Pickled Pig | Grenade | 8.2 | Old Ale |
| Battledown | S.P.A. Premium | 4.6 | A medium bodied deep amber beer, with malt and fruit overtones |
| Black Horse | Thanks PA | 4.0 | |
| Brampton | Wasp Nest | 5.0 | Mid-amber ale. Rich malty flavour with Fuggles and Goldings hops to balance. |
| Brentwood | Spooky Moon | 3.8 | Dark brown bitter with a sweet fruity finish |
| Brown Cow Alchemy | How Now Vintage | 8.1 | Light and dark roasted malts. Generous hops |
Gravity Beers
These beers ARE AVAILABLE NOW, and will be moved to a pump when one is available. Ask at bar 1 (Stage end) for service
| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description
|
| Bude | Porthbud | 4.0 | Light colour, passion fruit aroma and hoppy after taste. |
| Burton Bridge | Blazin’ Saddles | 4.5 | |
| Caythorpe | Dover Beck | 4.0 | A deep golden, well rounded, smooth tasting bitter |
| Charnwood | Tipping Point | 4.2 | Light Red multi grain beer. American and New Zealand hops |
| Church End | Cuthbert’s | 3.8 | Light brown bitter |
| Derby Brewing | Bull Shark IPA | 5.0 | Tropical fruits, sweet malty biscuit, bitterness, dry floral finish |
| Frog Island | Shoemaker | 4.2 | Amber beer with malty and citrus aroma and flavours |
| G2 | Otava | 4.2 | Deep gold classic IPA |
Gravity Beers
These beers ARE AVAILABLE NOW, and will be moved to a pump when one is available. Ask at bar 1 (Stage end) for service
| Brewery | Name | ABV (%) | Description
|
| Gorgeous Beer Co | Blonde Ale | 4.8 | From a new local brewery |
| Mallinsons | Firetail | 4.3 | Golden ale hints of stone fruits |
| Salopian | Blind Spot | 8.2 | Golden orange IPA, aroma of lime pulp and fresh botanics, palate of tropical fruit and sweet mango. |
| Shiny | Affinity | 4.6 | Strong Golden Bitter with lots and lots of fruity Citra hops |
| Sperrin | Cannon Fire | 5.5 | Porter |
| Stratford on Avon | Amarillo | 5.0 | Single hop ale |
| Village | White Boar | 3.8 | IPA |
| Wood | Jonnack | 3.8 | New beer from an established Shropshire brewery |
The main Festival sponsors this year are The Six Bells, Bishops Castle. The Pig and Porter ‘Dream More’ is sponsored by The Bailey Head in Oswestry. There are still some beers without sponsors – if you or your company are interested, you get listed in the programme and an advert on the sponsors wall for a flat payment of £75 (regardless of how much the beer costs).
Ciders
Butford Farm Organic
Green Valley
Hecks Port Wine
Janet’s Jungle Juice
Old Monty
Jack Ratt Vintage
Renshaw’s Red Eye
Ross on Wye
Skyborry
Wylde Kingston Black
Perry
Old Monty
Skyborry
Wylde
ABV and dryness index will be displayed on the cider bar at the festival
There will also be pure apple juice (what our American cousins call “soft” cider), and a wide range of country wines.
Remember these are ORDERS at this stage. There’s always the chance that an individual beer will be unavailable and substituted when we get it delivered on 19 September.
IN ADDITION – the 2016 Festival will be hosting the Regional Mild competition. The 6 top Milds of the West Midlands region of CAMRA will be subjected to a tasting panel, the winner of which will be forwarded to the National Champion Beer of Britain competition.
About The Champion Beer of Britain
The Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) is an award presented each year by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), at their Great British Beer Festival. Beers can qualify in three ways:
- CAMRA tasting panels judge the beers in their geographic area of the UK. The recommendations of these panels are put forward to six regional panels, with the winners of these qualifying for the finals in August.
- Votes from CAMRA members via a form in What’s Brewing, the CAMRA newsletter.
- Winning one of the 150 Beer Of The Festival awards from CAMRA beer festivals held throughout the year
Nominated beers are then grouped into categories and go through several rounds of blind tasting at the Great British Beer Festival. Category winners are then re-judged to determine the supreme champion – the Champion Beer of Britain.
Shrewsbury Beer Festival 2016
Entry is £2.50, FREE to CAMRA members except after 6pm on Friday
Address:
The Morris Hall,
Bellstone,
Shrewsbury.
SY1 1JB
The Morris Hall – Shrewsbury
Note:
- Quiet Festival ALL SESSIONS
- Unfortunately due to the historic nature of the location there is no access for customers in wheelchairs or unable to climb steps.
- Subject to Change Without Notice
- E&OE – Updated 11 July 2015
Our facebook Festival Page is here. Our Festival Twitter feed is here.
In the meantime, for news of other beer festivals in Shrewsbury, Shropshire & surrounding counties during the rest of the year, see our Branch Events page here
End of the successful 2015 festival
Shrewsbury Beer Festival 2015 summary
Campaign for Real Ale - Shrewsbury and West Shropshire Branch 