The 1st Broad Face Beer festival starts today and continues over the weekend. There is a good range of beers, many from local breweries including Old Bog‘s Monstrous Mild which was recently awarded ‘beer of The Wantage Beer Festival‘.
Beer List
| Brewery | Beer | ABV | Taste Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vale Brewery | Gravitas | 4.8% | A strong, pale ale packed with hop and citrus flavours, rounded off by a dry malty biscuit finish. A pronounced hop aroma throughout. |
| North Costwold | Shag Weaver | 4.5% | Pale coloured cask conditioned lager made with New Zealand Hops. |
| Old Bog Brewery | Monstrous Mild | 5.6% | Malty, slightly perfumed nose with a thick, stout like body. A strong, velvety smooth mild with a distinctive fruity and malty taste. |
| Shotover Brewery | Prospect | 3.7% | packed with a combination of English and new world hops to give a surprisingly big mouthfeel and a striking dry hoppiness that is very moreish. A classic pale copper English bitter colour. |
| Loddon Brewery | Ferryman’s Gold | 4.4% | using Slovenian Stryian Golding hops, (originally an English variety, which have been grown in slovenia for the last 100 years), which impart a zesty Lime flavour. The mix of Cara malt and Wheat malt give a smooth, creamy body to the beer. |
| White Horse | Wayland Smithy | 4.4% | combines the best ingredients money canbuy and the skills of the traditional brewer to create a hammering good beer. Red like the fire at it’s heart and balanced with buckets of aromatic hops, it’s enough to give other brewers the hump |
| Loose Cannon | Abingdon Bridge | 4.1% | Abingdon Bridge is the first beer released by the newly established Loose Cannon Brewery (Abingdon). Mid brown in colour with a well rounded bitterness. Full flavoured with a floral aftertaste. |
| Rebellion | X9 GAL IPA | 3.7% | A copper coloured, easy drinking beer with considerable depth and complexity and a well balanced malt & fruit flavour continues to long, refreshing & crisp finish. |
| Leeds | Yorkshire Gold | 4.0% | Full golden ale specially selected for this brew made of English north down hop gives this well balanced bitter rich satisfying finish. |
| Hawkshead | Hawkshead Red | 4.2% | A Red Ale. Bitter-sweet. First comes the sweetness of the Dark Crystal malt, which gives it the red colour, and then the long dry finish. A beer for those who like their ale to have some colour and taste of malt. |
| Okells Brewery | Olde Skipper | 4.5% | A light coloured beer with hop and fruit aroma, An initial sweetness bitter dry finish. |
| Thwaites | Wainwright’s | 4.1% | golden ale, refreshing with a delicate citrus fruit flavour and subtle sweetness. |
There is live music on Friday (TC Band) and Saturday (Full Circle)
They will also serve local cheeses and homemade chutneys and few ale dishes and a’la carte menu:
- Beef and Ale Stew with Black Olive Mash £8.95
- Real Ale Batted Fish of the Day with Hand Cut Chips and Homemade Tatare Sauce £9.25
- Selection of Locally Sourced Sausages with Ale Braised Shallots and Red Wine Jus £8.95
- Real ale Beef Chilli with Aromatic Basmati Rice £8.95
- Ale and Onion Soup with Real Ale Bread £4.60