2 Festival Guide WELCOME to CAMRA’s 46th ‘Booze on the twice the strength of or ordinary and Ouse’ beer and cider festival, and the 21st St you will not be far wrong. They are definitely NOT Neots Beer & Cider Festival. The festival is for drivers. See pages 6-7 for more details. organised and run by the unpaid volunteers from WINE We will also be serving a selection of wine the Huntingdonshire branch of CAMRA, the at the cider bar. . FOOD Our caterers, from the nearby Bridge THEME As you will have seen from our posters House , will be providing a variety of food at and the programme cover, our theme for this year all sessions. is a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the the death of William Shakespeare. SOFT DRINKS Free soft drinks will be served at the cider bar for the designated driver of your CASK ALE We believe that the best craft beer party. comes in a cask! Our cask ale bar will offer a great selection of more than 70 real ales from CHILDREN Whilst lunchtime is the ideal time to independent UK brewers over the course of the bring the family to the festival, we do allow festival. Over a third of these are from East Anglia children in the hall until 8.00pm. Under 18s at the and a quarter are from the East Midlands, festival must be accompanied by an adult at all demonstrating the fantastic range of local beer times available to our pub licensees. This year we are featuring a range of beers from both Sussex and Please remember that it is against the law to Nottinghamshire; sometimes straying into purchase alcohol if you are under 18,or to neighbouring counties too. There are some fine purchase alcohol on behalf of someone who breweries in these areas producing lots of tasty is under 18. A Challenge 21 policy will be in ales, many of which are rarely seen around here. operation. If you are lucky enough to appear Real ales have also been ordered from across under 21, you can expect to be asked to prove Britain, including Scotland, Wales, Northern and your age. Southern England. The festival features the gold ADVICE FOR NEWCOMERS A few hints for and silver medal winners from CAMRA’s newcomers to CAMRA beer festivals. Hopefully Champion Winter Beer of Britain judged in a by the time you are reading this you have gained competition held last month at the National admission and paid a returnable deposit for a Winter Ales Festival in Derby. We also have the souvenir festival glass. You can decide later current Champion Beer of Britain; Cwtch, a whether to keep your glass or pick up a refund on fabulous best bitter from Tiny Rebel in South your way out. Wales. A full menu with detailed descriptions is presented on pages 8-15. You now have a choice between the main cask ale bar, or bottled beers and draught cider. If you BOTTLED BEER Our bottled beer bar will be are unsure what to try, speak to one of our selling a range of bottled beers from Belgium, the volunteer staff – they will be delighted to give their Netherlands, Germany, the USA and the UK, recommendations or answer questions. including examples of the most distinctive and individualistic beer styles in the world, such as Be guided by the OG (original gravity, a measure Trappist, lambic and wheat beers, pale ales, of the amount of sugar before fermentation) or brown ales and lagers. A full menu is shown on ABV (alcohol by volume) of the beers – in general pages 18-21 with detailed descriptions of the higher numbers mean stronger flavours and more styles and the specific beers available. alcohol. Start with low strength beers such as mild or ‘ordinary’ bitter (you may be pleasantly CIDER The draught cider bar will be serving surprised by their flavour levels) and work around 18 ciders and perries, mainly from upwards to appreciate flavours better. Eat some Cambridgeshire and the surrounding counties, food if you are here for a long session - it will help but also from further afield. Please take care with soak up the beer! these powerful drinks - think of them as around Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 3 Festival Guide For cask ales, have a look at the style guide on FESTIVAL GLASS Our festival commemorative pages 8-9 of this programme. Choose a style, pint glasses carry our William Shakespeare then for examples of beers in that style, turn to the festival logo and are a collector’s item and an beer list and tasting notes which begin on page 9. attractive keepsake of the festival. Various other badged glasses are also available. Deposits of The real ale casks are set up in alphabetical order £3.50 will be taken on ALL glasses - pints, halves of the brewery names (’A’ nearest the stage, to ‘X’ and wine glasses. You may return them for a full nearest the entrance. If you need help with your refund, or take the glass home with you. choices or advice on beers available at any time, please ask our knowledgeable bar staff. PAYING FOR DRINKS After a successful trial at last year’s St Ives Festival, we will be running a CHOICE AND QUALITY are at the very heart of token system at St Neots for the purchase of all what CAMRA is about. For many years, we’ve beer, cider, perry and wine. The system is aimed to showcase the ‘Best of British’ at Booze designed to cut queues and enables you to be on the Ouse, served in the best condition served more rapidly by our volunteers. Sheets of possible. More recently we have focussed on the tokens are on sale near the glasses stall in £5 and best local real ales in line with our LocAle scheme £10 amounts. Any unused tokens can be - this accredits for serving high quality local exchanged for a full refund or can be donated to real ales. East Anglia offers a fantastic range of our festival charity; the local group of the Wildlife brews and we would like to see more of them Trust. Your support of this worthy charity is much regularly available in local pubs. appreciated. All of our beers are selected by volunteers who THIRD OF A PINT MEASURES Our have a detailed knowledge of the best beers from commemorative glasses allow a legal measure of their wide experience of running bars at CAMRA one third of a pint (a ‘nip’), to allow you sample a festivals locally and nationally. We use CAMRA’s wider range of beer and cider. cooling system for all the real ales and we also set up the beers in good time. This means that A BIG THANK YOU is extended to all who have they are cool before they are vented and tapped helped in getting our festival up and running, and then have the time that most need to settle everyone who has delivered beer on time and all and develop their flavours. By presenting the CAMRA members who have volunteered to help finest local and regional beers at this festival, we at the festival. Also to those who have taken aim to encourage our local pubs to serve a similar advertising space in the programme and local range of high quality beers in great condition. pubs and shops for displaying our leaflets and posters. And to the brewers and cider makers That’s our plan – although sourcing beers from as without whose skill and craft we would not be able far afield as Inverness and Cornwall can be a to offer you the diversity of flavours available in challenge so please bear with us if the beers their products. Thank you also to everybody at stocked differ a little from our published lists. Rest the Priory Centre for their assistance, and finally, assured, though, that our expert beer selectors to you the customers, for turning up, drinking the will have chosen good alternatives. Please be ales and helping us to shout the real ale message patient if your choice is not available at a loud and clear — ‘Real ale lives!’ particular time. CAUTION Please remember that some of our ALLERGENS With the exception of St Peter’s beers and ciders are very strong. Don’t spoil your Bark G-Free (which is allergen free), and Nene evening and anyone else’s by drinking and then Valley beers (which are all gluten free) all of the driving home. Treat your driver to the free soft cask beers available at this festival contain gluten drinks available at the tombola stall, catch a bus from barley. If you have any concerns regarding or share a taxi. allergens, please talk to the relevant manager (bar or food concession) or the Festival Organiser.

4 About CAMRA THE BEGINNING The Campaign for Real Ale In 2013 a successful campaign resulted in the was formed in 1971 by four beer drinkers removal of the ‘beer duty escalator’, an disgruntled by the declining quality of British automatic annual beer duty increase set at 2% draught beer. Within five years CAMRA had above inflation, and instead beer duty was grown into Europe’s most effective consumer reduced by 1p per pint, with a similar reduction movement. in 2014. ‘REAL ALE’ was a term coined by CAMRA for Recently successful lobbying encouraged the cask beer. During the 1970’s CAMRA’s real ale government to announce extended protection revolution stemmed the flow of filtered, of pubs listed as Assets of Community Value pasteurised draught beer that had been (ACV), which will now automatically have rapidly replacing live and naturally drawn cask permitted development rights removed; this beer as local brewers aped the national means that a community pub listed as an ACV brewers with their tasteless, chilled and highly cannot be demolished or converted into other carbonated, but powerfully marketed branded uses such as a shop or restaurant without keg beers. planning permission. CASK BEER’S revival by the brewers was JOIN CAMRA. Despite a remarkable increase encouraged and supported by CAMRA and a in the number of real ale breweries and outlets, burgeoning new sector of real ale with over 85% of pubs in England and Wales microbreweries was spawned. now stocking real ale, there remain many threats to real ale, including industry CONSUMERS’ CHAMPION. CAMRA quickly globalisation, pub closures, and high duty became the champion of the beer consumer in rates. Visit the CAMRA shop and join CAMRA all areas of the brewing and pub trade. In the at this festival to help local and national 1980’s more flexible licensing followed campaigns to save pubs and breweries and CAMRA’s lobbying as pubs were allowed to increase quality and choice and availability of open during weekday afternoons. real ales at reasonable prices. BEER DUTY was reduced for smaller brewers WE NEED YOU! Huntingdonshire CAMRA in 2003 in a move urged by CAMRA to curb always needs more active members, so if you closures of microbreweries that were cut out of have joined CAMRA, please think about one of the market by trading agreements and huge the following way in which you could contribute discounts demanded by the powerful new non- to the campaign. It’s easier than you may brewing pub groups. think: BEER FESTIVALS are one of CAMRA’s most Become a beer scorer. Rate the beer you drink effective strategies. Local festivals like this and enter your beer score via CAMRA’s one are organised and run by volunteers in national online pub guide, WhatPub.com. CAMRA’s network of local branches to encourage consumers to ask for quality real Adopt a pub (or two). Help deliver the branch ale and pubs to provide it. magazine, Opening Times, to your local, and let us have news about what is going on there. CAMPAIGNS are designed by CAMRA to get more people to visit pubs and drink real ale, Help at a beer festival. Come over onto the and to improve consumer rights for beer other side of the bar and help serve for a drinkers. In recent years CAMRA has mounted couple of hours. Or choose another option to a number of highly successful campaigns in help - it’s not just about serving beer. support of cask beer and pubs, such as LocAle, and ‘Community Pubs Month’. Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 5 Real Cider & Perry Traditional cider is Ouse made throughout the *** A CAMRA award winning cider UK, with perhaps the COTSWOLD, Coleshill, Oxfordshire. www. best-known areas cotswoldciderco.com. A small producer from being the West Oxfordshire. They focus on using cider apples Country, Kent and sourced from their local area. Herefordshire. There is, however, a long No Brainer 6.0% ABV - Dry. A still, hazy cider established cider with a rich fruity taste. tradition in East Anglia , Hemingford Grey, and especially Cambridgeshire; and as usual, CROMWELL Cambridgeshire. www.cromwellcider.co.uk. we are pleased to see the two major producers Award winning cider maker and represented here. Huntingdonshire’s main producer. They use Making cider is pretty simple; firstly apples are culinary and dessert fruit which is predominately collected from trees or picked off the ground by from their own trees. scrumping - hence the term ‘scrumpy’. The - Medium. Initially apples are then washed, sorted and pulped Cavalier Perry 6.0% ABV sweet, this perry becomes slightly dry and before being pressed to extract the all-important refreshing. juice. This juice is placed in fermenting vessels where the naturally occurring yeast from the Oliver’s Pinky 7.0% ABV - Medium Dry. apples ferments the sugars and produces cider. Matured in a red wine cask and is initially Simple, or not, that’s it! sweetish followed by a dry after taste. Some of the large, national producers filter and Oliver’s Sweetheart 6.7% ABV - Medium pasteurise cider before it gets to you. These so- Sweet. Sweet but not ‘sticky. Medium flavour called ‘premium’ brands are high on image and with slightly sweet aftertaste. price, but bland, gassy and low in flavour and temperature. But that doesn’t happen to the DORSET NECTAR, Bridport, Dorset. www. cider we serve here - this festival only stocks dorsetnectar.co.uk. Based outside of Bridport, traditional cider. this producer sources apples from their own farm and focus entirely on West Country cider Whereas the Cambridgeshire drinker can buy a varieties. pint of real ale in probably 90% of the pubs, real cider is much harder to come by. This is Wild Cat 5.0% ABV - Medium. Fruity cider with particularly tragic as East Anglia boasts fifteen a sparkle and a bite. commercial cider makers; but their products can HANDMADE, Chippenham, Wiltshire. www. be hard to find in our pubs. handmadecider.co.uk. This CAMRA award This festival we have the winner and second winning producer is one of the few cider makers placed ciders from the 2015 CAMRA East Anglia in Wiltshire who make their product available cider competition; and they are both from commercially. Cambridgeshire. Fire Starter 6.0% ABV - Medium Dry. Soft with Your Cider & Perry Bar Manager is Andy a refreshing favour. Blagbrough. HARDING’S, Abbotsley, Cambridgeshire. www. Please Note: HardingsCider.co.uk. Having moved from Luton * A new cider from this producer at Booze on in 2014, this prize winning cider maker makes a the Ouse welcome addition to the local cider scene. ** First time for this producer at Booze on the Products are made from apples sourced in the region and no preservatives are added. 6 3 Counties Bounty 7.5% ABV - Medium Dry. A pure juice of Cambridgeshire perry and dessert crisp cider which is initially dry, followed by a pears. smooth after taste. Trip Hazard 8.2% ABV - Medium. A fruity, full 3 Peace Sweet 7.5% ABV - Medium Sweet. bodied and strong cider. It has a rich and 2014 CAMRA Champion cider of East Anglia. complex taste. Slight dry aftertaste. This is a light cider which is smooth and SPINNEY ABBEY, Wicken, Cambridgeshire. refreshing. www.spinneyabbey.co.uk. A small producer HECKS, Street, Somerset. www. based in the north of the county. Previous hecksfarmhousecider.co.uk. Based in the heart winner of the ‘Cider of the Festival’. of Somerset cider making, this well respected Monk & Disorderly 5.6% ABV - Medium. Voted producer makes award winning ciders and best cider at the 2014 St. Ives beer & cider perry. festival, this pleasant cider with a good apple Farmhouse Perry 6.5% ABV - Medium. A full flavour and slightly sweet finish. and rich perry with loads of fruit and flavour. Has Nun Bee-Having Badly 5.6% ABV - Medium a sweetish aftertaste. Sweet. Contains honey to give this cider a rich PICKLED PIG, Stretham, Cambridgeshire. and smooth flavour. Idea for sore throats! www.pickledpig.co.uk. Based in the heart of Cambridgeshire at Stretham, this CAMRA Availability award winning cider maker is well known and Real cider and perry are available in many pubs enjoyed throughout the county. in the branch area. The following list is not definitive and there will be others who only serve New Season Porker 6.5% ABV - Medium. it during the summer months. If you have any Early version of Porker’s Snout. Refreshing and information about the availability of real cider made from local apples. Runner-up in the and perry, please email it to: CAMRA 2015 champion cider of East Anglia [email protected] competition. ALCONBURY WESTON - White Hart Sweet Little Pig 6.0% ABV - Sweet. A fruity CATWORTH - Racehorse sweet cider full of flavour provided by a high COLNE - Green Man proportion of Cox’s apples in the blend. GAMLINGAY - Cock, Wheatsheaf Toffee Apple 6.5% ABV - Sweet. A slight GLATTON - Addison Arms caramel taste gives this cider a hint of sweet GREAT PAXTON - Bell toffee apples. HARTFORD - King of the Belgians HEMINGFORD ABBOTS - Axe & Compass POTTON PRESS, Potton, Bedfordshire. www. pottonpress.co.uk. This CAMRA award winning HEMINGFORD GREY - Cock cider maker is rapidly gaining a reputation for HOUGHTON - Three Horseshoes the excellence of his products. All ciders and HUNTINGDON - Falcon, Victoria perries are made from freshly pressed local LITTLE GRANSDEN - Chequers apples and pears. NEEDINGWORTH - Queen’s Head SAWTRY - Greystones Elderflower 5.0% ABV - Medium Sweet. A ST. IVES - Oliver Cromwell, Royal Oak, White blend of apples with fresh elderflowers added Hart late in the fermentation. This is a rich and ST. NEOTS - Hog & Partridge, Pig ‘n’ Falcon, refreshing cider with a sweet aftertaste Olde Sun, Weeping Ash Potton Perry 6.5% ABV - Medium Dry. Clean, crisp and refreshing. This perry is made from the

Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 7 Real Ale Beer is brewed with malted barley, hops and sometimes like over-cooked cabbage. water and fermented with yeast. Real ale is The tongue detects salt, sweet, bitter and sour freshly brewed and contains some live yeast in elements and combinations of these allow the cask so it continues to ferment and mature. identification of hop and malt flavours and fruity Hops provide aroma and bitterness. Malt tastes that develop in fermentation. The best provides balancing sweetness and fruity flavours beers will provide a number of these features, can develop as the yeast converts the sugars to with sweetness and bitterness in good balance. alcohol and a natural sparkle of carbon dioxide. Finally, the aftertaste or finish will often bring out Most cask beers are clarified or ‘fined’ using dry, bitter flavours from hops or roast malt. Try Isinglass; a form of fish collagen. Unfined / these four processes and compare your findings vegan beers are identified as such and may be with those of our tasting panels. Our real ale bar naturally cloudy. In contrast to real ale, keg beer managers are trained CAMRA tasters. Do not has had the yeast removed, is often pasteurised hesitate to speak to them about the taste or for longer life and has carbon dioxide added quality of any beer if you have queries or artificially. concerns - they’ll be delighted to assist. The following details of the real ales available at the festival include tasting notes taken REAL ALE STYLES predominantly from CAMRA’s annual Good Beer MILDS are low in alcohol (usually 3-4%) and Guide (on sale at the CAMRA Shop). They are range from pale amber to dark brown and black written by trained CAMRA activists who do their in colour. They are lightly hopped and can be tasting in pubs - their findings are therefore sweetish. The taste may be malty, sometimes representative of the beer quality available to with a light roast malt, liquorice or caramel you. We also list values for ABV and OG, where flavour. available, to provide an indication of the strength BITTERS range in colour from brown to tawny, and body of the beers. copper, or amber, but can be paler. They are ABV is alcohol by volume, which gives the bitter with a hoppy aroma and taste and may alcohol level as a percentage of the volume of have fruity, malty or faint toffee flavours. beer. This figure is the most accurate indication Alcoholic strengths vary from 3% upwards. of a beer’s alcoholic strength. Ordinary ‘Bitters’ are hoppy, crisp and refreshing and not too heavy. ‘Best bitters’ have more OG is original gravity, the density or specific alcohol and hops and can be quite malty. ‘Strong gravity of the unfermented wort and an indication bitters’ are highly hopped, full-bodied and often of the amount of sugars in the brew before predominantly malty or fruity. fermentation. Water has a gravity of 1000 degrees, so an OG of 1050 means 50 parts per GOLDEN ALES are yellow or golden, highly thousand parts of beer. A higher OG usually hopped and refreshing, often with citrus flavours means a heavier, stronger beer, although beers from the hops. of the same OG can be lighter, but higher in OLD ALES and STRONG MILDS are full-bodied alcohol if fermented more. with malty richness and fruitiness, usually dark BEER TASTING is basically a four-tiered but can be paler. Some have a light roast malt process and it really begins, not with the tongue, aroma and taste and strong milds can have a but with the eyes and nose. The colour, clarity rich caramel flavour. and natural sparkle provide an immediate visual PORTERS are black or dark brown, full bodied impression. A swirl of the glass releases aroma and complex with roast malt and hop aromas and a sniff reveals desirable hoppy, malty and and tastes. fruity characters or undesirable aromas indicating faults, such as vinegar, phenolic or are usually black with dry, intense TCP aromas or high levels of sulphur, roast flavours from roasted barley. Sweet stouts 8 Real Ale are traditionally sweetened with lactose. taste. Some sweetness, but the balance is predominantly dry & bitter, with increasing BARLEY WINES are amber, copper or tawny bitterness in the aftertaste and are full bodied, fruity and very strong in alcohol. They can be sweet or assertively bitter. Timothy Taylor - Keighley, W Yorks Dark Mild (ABV 3.5 %, OG 1034) Malt & STRONG OLD ALES are similar to barley wines caramel dominate throughout in this sweetish but are dark brown or black and may have a very beer with background hop & fruit notes rich malty character with light roast malt in aroma and taste BITTERS (below 4% ABV) SPECIALITY BEERS are produced using one or Bartrams - Rougham, Suffolk more novel ingredients, including cereals other Green Man (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1040) Full bodied than barley, fruits, herbs, honey or flowers other golden bitter with peaches & oranges on the than hops. The category includes wheat beers, nose & palate with a spicy finish fruit beers, ginger beers, and beers flavoured Hammerpot - Poling, W Sussex Shooting Star with other herbs and spices. (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1038) Chestnut bitter with malt, Real Ales – The Best Craft Beers toffee & blackcurrant flavours. Lemon, floral hop are on Cask! aromas with a mellow, balanced aftertaste We hope to offer the following real ales over the Kissingate - Lower Beeding, Horsham, W course of the festival, but the list may change Sussex Kissingate Sussex (ABV 4.0 %) and some beers might not be available at every Glorious chestnut beer with simple roasted malt session. We do all we can to maximise the notes. Gentle floral & gathering bitterness range, but some beers take longer to be in their derived from a blend of English hops. Crisp, best condition, and some beers will inevitably sherbet bitterness, sweet malty finish sell out before the end of the festival if the event is to be financially successful. Try something Nobby’s - Thrapston, Northants Best Bitter else, and ask our staff when the beer you want (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1037) LocAle A fine session will be available. bitter with an excellent lasting hop finish - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk LocAle -A beer brewed within 30 miles of the Old Cannon festival. Best Bitter (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1037) Traditional East Anglian bitter. Rich hoppy aroma & MILDS bitterness dominate throughout with just a hint of Castle Rock - Nottingham sweetness in the aftertaste Black Gold (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1037) Dark ruby Panther - Reepham, Norfolk mild. Full-bodied and fairly bitter Golden Panther (ABV 3.7 %, OG 1039) Flowing Hook Norton - Banbury, Oxon Hooky Mild malt notes throughout are supported by orange (ABV 2.8 %, OG 1033) Chestnut brown, easy- hop airs. Gently tapering finish lapses into a drinking mild. Complex malt & hop aromas give growing dry bitterness way to a well-balanced taste, leading to a long, Purity - Great Alne, Alcester, Warwickshire Pure hoppy finish that is unusual for a mild Gold (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1040) Easy drinking beer Rudgate - Tockwith, York with a lovely dry & bitter finish. Made with Ruby Mild (ABV 4.4 %, OG 1041) Nutty, rich English Maris Otter & Cara Gold malts plus ruby ale. A little stronger than usual for a mild Northern Brewer, Fuggles, Hereford Golding & Styrian Golding hops Son of Sid - Little Gransden, Cambs Muck Cart Mild (ABV 3.5 %, OG 1035) LocAle BEST BITTERS (4.0-4.5% ABV) Black mild with a resounding roast malt Bexar County - Peterborough presence & a caramel background in aroma & American (ABV 4.5 %) LocAle A Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 9 Real Ale classic APA with a Bexar County twist; zesty flavours balanced by a hoppy dryness American hops with a long bitter finish -Unfined Papworth Brewery - Papworth Everard, Cambs Black Hole Brewery - Burton upon Trent, Staffs Mad Jack (ABV 4.1 %) LocAle Copper Cosmic II (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1044) Beer with an coloured, well-balanced bitter with citrus amber glow & initial malt aroma. The complex overtones & a hint of caramel - Unfined balance of malt & English hops gives a lingering - Huddersfield, W Yorks taste of fruit, nuts & a dry happy bitterness Rat White Rat (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1040) Very pale Brighton Bier Co - Brighton, E Sussex hoppy ale made from low colour Maris Otter Free State (ABV 4.5 %) A for the 21st malt. Combination of three high-alpha US hops Century. Brewed with oats & rye for complexity & gives an intensely aromatic and resinous finish dry hopped with Equinox for aroma Tempest - Tweedbank, Galashiels, Borders Castle Rock - Nottingham Armadillo (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1039) A 21st Red Riding Hood (ABV 4.3 %, OG 1043) US Century session IPA, with waves of zesty orange style red ale. Reddish brown fruity bitter with citrus & tropical fruit flavours amplified by US initial malt, caramel & hops leading to a lasting Amarillo hops malty bitter finish Tiny Rebel - Newport, Gwent Clarkshaws - Coldharbour Lane, S E London Cwtch (ABV 4.6 %, OG 1045) Arguably the Gorgon’s Alive! (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1040) Golden coolest word on the planet, Cwtch is a unique coloured beer with spicy hops throughout. The Welsh Red Ale. Six malts, 2 US hops and weeks flavour has hints of orange & peach with a dry of Tiny Rebel love and attention go into making bitterness - Vegan, unfined this beer - Overall CBOB 2015 Digfield Ales - Barnwell, Northants STRONG BITTERS (>4.5% ABV) March Hare (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1044) LocAle Bartrams - Rougham, SuffolkCaptain Bill Straw coloured premium ale with a subtle fruit Bartram’s Best Bitter (ABV 4.8 %, OG 1048) flavour. Crisp, dry bitterness on the palate with a Brewed using a Victorian recipe, so there is just full malt finish Maris Otter and crystal malt in the grist & good Downlands - Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex old Fuggles & Goldings hops in the boil Best (ABV 4.1 %, OG 1042) Caramel and toffee Castle Rock - Nottingham Idle Valley Reserve nose leads into a rich, fruity, russet brown best (ABV 5.0 %) Single-hopped IPA brewed with a bitter thats typical of the style new UK hop variety - Olicana. Supporting nature Lymestone - Stone, Staffs reserves in Nottinghamshire Pounamo (ABV 4.2 %) A Maouri welcome in a Dark Star - Partridge Green, W Sussex Festival glass; New Zealand’s finest Mouteka hops (ABV 5.0 %, OG 1052) Chestnut-bronze bitter assault your taste buds with an array of sweet with a smooth mouthfeel & freshness; a classic Polynesian fruit flavours. Very pale, crisp & style strong bitter brewed as a version of Festive hoppy (a former great Sussex beer from King & Barnes) Nene Valley Brewery - Oundle, Northants Elland - Elland, W Yorks Australian Pale (ABV 4.4 %, OG 1044) LocAle Pilgrim IPA (ABV 5.0 %) Single hopped straw Rich golden coloured ale with a floral aroma coloured ale, deep fruit & spice flavour & aroma preceding citrus & tropical fruit flavour from the with a refreshing bitterness Australian Galaxy hops - Gluten free - Bury St Edmunds, SuffolkNew Nobby’s - Thrapston, Northants Swift Nick Horizons IPA (ABV 6.0 %) A bold & refreshing (ABV 4.2 %) LocAle Golden in colour, thrice IPA, generously dry hopped with accents of citrus hopped to quench your thirst. Biscuity malt & tropical fruit, rich malt & a crisp bitter finish 10 Real Ale Oakham - Woodston, Peterborough Beer Burning Sky - Firle, E Sussex Plateau (ABV 3.5 Monster (ABV 4.8 %) LocAle Reviving an old %, OG 1035) Pale gold in colour, with a crisp recipe, this amber/red beer has lots of complex malt edge & sharp bitterness. Hopped at malt flavours overlaid by citrus & blackcurrant different stages of the brew, with a big mix of US from some of our favourite US hops & NZ hops. Full in flavour, zesty & refreshing Oakham - Woodston, Peterborough Charnwood - Loughborough, Leics Salvation Mompesson’s Gold (ABV 5.2 %) LocAle (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1038) Light refreshing golden Strong copper coloured ale, brewed with beer with tropical fruit, citrus & floral flavours. US Challenger & Styrian Goldings hops to be light Cascade and Amarillo hops create a citrus on the palate but overflowing with flavour & with aroma & crisp clean bitterness on the finish a long-lasting bitterness Dark Star - Partridge Green, W Sussex Papworth Brewery - Papworth Everard, Cambs Hophead (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1040) Golden- Robin Goodfellow (ABV 5.4 %) LocAle Robin coloured bitter with a fruity/hoppy aroma & a Goodfellow is a shrewd & knavish sprite, the citrusy/bitter taste & aftertaste. Flavours remain merry wanderer of the night. This full bodied ruby strong to the end red ale is rich with dark fruit flavours & a Lacons - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk mischievously silky smooth yet hoppy finish that Affinity (ABV 4.8 %, OG 1046) Robustly full belies its strength - Unfined bodied with a glistening chestnut tint. Complex Red Brewery - Gt Staughton, Cambs Spartan passion fruit & lychee tartness leaps forward from Hoplite (ABV 6.0 %, OG 1059) LocAle Highly Nelson Sauvin & Simcoe hops, closely followed hopped English ale. Light gold in colour, the by a perfectly charming balance of fruit & malt on WGV and First Gold hops give a crisp the finish marmalade after taste - the brewer’s favourite! Mallard - Southwell, Notts Thornbridge - Bakewell, Derbyshire Specduckular (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1042) Jaipur IPA (ABV 5.9 %, OG 1055) Flavoursome Refreshing, golden ale full of fruity hops with a IPA packed with citrus hoppiness that’s nicely malty undertone, Moderately bitter with notes of counterbalanced by malt & underlying lemon, grapefruit and biscuity malt sweetness & robust fruit flavours Nene Valley Brewery - Oundle, Northants Xtreme Ales - Whittlesey, Cambs Single Hop Blond Session Ale (ABV 3.8 %, OG 1037) Simcoe (ABV 5.0 %) LocAle Light coloured beer LocAle Light golden session ale with a with aromas of pine, passionfruit & apricot, plus refreshing citrus hop finish. Supreme thirst plenty of bitterness from the US Simcoe hops quencher - Gluten free GOLDEN ALES Oakham - Woodston, Peterborough Citra (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1042) LocAle Refreshing Abbeydale - Sheffield, S Yorks grapefruit & peach aroma & flavour characterise Dr Morton’s Alphabetti Forgetti (ABV 4.1 %) this golden ale. Bittersweet palate gives way to a This pale golden beer has a full hop kick, with long dry aftertaste orange & grapefruit flavours enhanced with fresh pine & raisin notes Old Cannon - Bury St Edmunds, SuffolkBlonde Bombshell (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1042) Subtle citrus Blue Monkey - Giltbrook, Nottingham flavours, with a pleasant bitterness & BG Sips (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1041) Pale, intensely astringency that grows on the aftertaste. Hoppy, hoppy beer. Enticing tropical fruit aromas well-balanced & quaffable finished with a good level of thirst quenching, almost peppery bitterness Pin-Up - Southwick, Brighton, E Sussex Session IPA (ABV 4.1 %, OG 1040) Pale coloured beer, made with US & German hops. A Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 11 Real Ale great flavoured beer with a light crisp bitterness, PORTERS plus citrus & floral aromas Brewsters - Grantham, Lincs Red Brewery - Gt Staughton, Cambs Stilton (ABV 4.9 %, OG 1049) Rich roast White Duck IPA (ABV 4.8 %, OG 1044) LocAle flavoured porter brewed with 4 malts & balanced Clean, balanced light golden ale with a smooth with spicy rich flavours from English hop melon & grapefruit finish varieties Salopian - Shrewsbury, Shropshire Digfield Ales - Barnwell, Northants Bauhaus (ABV 4.2 %) Pale beer with a fresh Old Crow Porter (ABV 4.3 %) LocAle A fruit aroma. Combines a radiance of citrus & traditional rich, full-bodied porter with a balanced grapefruit flavours that tingles the palate & roasted malt finish culminates in a crisp dry finish Elland - Elland, W Yorks Son of Sid - Little Gransden, Cambs 1872 Porter (ABV 6.5 %, OG 1065) Creamy, My Kingdom for a Horse (ABV 6.5 %) LocAle full-flavoured porter. Rich liquorice flavours with Pale golden ale; easy drinking with a fruity finish a hint of chocolate from roast malt. Soft but that belies it’s strength satisfying aftertaste of bittersweet roast & malt - Silver CWBOB 2016 St Peter’s - St Peter S Elmham, Bungay, Suffolk Golden Ale (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1040) Full-bodied, Tempest - Tweedbank, Galashiels, Borders robust golden/amber ale. Strong hop bouquet Elemental Dark (ABV 5.1 %, OG 1053) Robust leads to a mix of malt & hops combined with a railway porter, with a classic smooth malty roast dry, fruity hoppiness. The malt quickly subsides, character. Balanced with spicey British & New leaving creamy bitterness Zealand hops St Peter’s - St Peter S Elmham, Bungay, Suffolk STOUTS Hoppy T’Ale (ABV 4.2 %) Copper coloured well Bad Co - Dishforth, N Yorks rounded seasonale brew, full of malt flavour & Dazed and Confused (ABV 5.5 %) Dark & rich moderate bitterness. Noticeable hoopy aroma modern milk with hints of cherry, chocolate, courtesy of the US Cascade hops coffee & almond Three Blind Mice - Little Downham, Ely, Cambs Kissingate - Lower Beeding, Horsham, W Lonely Snake (ABV 3.5%) LocAle Pale golden Sussex Murder of Crows (ABV 10.0 %) Rare, ale, brewed using Citra hops to give refreshing complex double mashed Imperial Stout. Hints of citrus grapefruit flavours & a lasting bitterness. chocolate, woodsmoke & well aged brandy. A Sunshine in a glass! coming together of richness & softness in perfect harmony. Treat with the respect it deserves! - - Broad Oak, Rye, E Sussex Three Legs Third & half pints only - No pints! Pale Ale (ABV 3.7 %, OG 1033) Hoppy session pale ale. Cascade & Summit hops give it a Lacons - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk hugely aromatic nose. Light in body & low in Extra Stout (ABV 4.5 %, OG 1038) Luscious, bitterness, making it very moreish full-bodied seasonal dark stout from a blend of bold roasted malts. Carries a gentle crimson radiance & valiant stone fruits are balanced by Marble - Manchester blackcurrant & a hint of citrus. The finish is both Chocolate Marble (ABV 5.5 %, OG 1055) smooth & dry Brewed with an emphasis on chocolate malts; coffee, cocoa & liquorice flavours with a Pheasantry - East Markham, Newark, Notts Dark chestnut brown with quenching bitter finish -Gold CWBOB 2016 Stout (ABV 4.8 %) tastes of roast coffee beans, chocolate & an appealing dryness

12 Real Ale Tiny Rebel - Newport, Gwent St Peter’s - St Peter S Elmham, Bungay, Suffolk Dirty Stop Out (ABV 5.0 %, OG 1052) Smoked Grapefruit Beer (ABV 4.7 %, OG 1047) Very oat stout that has all the characteristics of a strong aroma & taste of grapefruit, this heavy night out; complex, dark, with hints of refreshing beer is exactly what it says on the tin. smokiness & perfume aromas. Blend of 9 malts Superb example of a fruit beer matched up with a firmly-hopped backbone Titanic - Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Staffs BARLEY WINES Chocolate & Vanilla Stout (ABV 4.5 %, OG Nene Valley Brewery - Oundle, Northants Mid- 1047) Brewed using roast barley & Maris Otter Week Bender (ABV 7.4 %, OG 1070) LocAle Pale Malt, giving a huge rich body to the beer, Dark amber in colour. Deep malt, molasses & plus a generous amount of English North down candied orange flavours with a big hop hit hops to create a bitter edge. Sweetness comes throughout - Gluten free from addition of chocolate & Madagascan vanilla Titanic - Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Staffs SPECIALITY Plum Porter (ABV 4.9 %, OG 1051) Dark brown Bexar County - Peterborough with a powerful fruity aroma. A sweet plum A Lemon Tree My Dear Watson (ABV 3.7 %) fruitiness gives way to a gentle bitter finish. LocAle Lemon meringue pie beer - Unfined - Romeo and especially Juliet are mad for this! Collaboration with Weird Beard Xtreme Ales - Whittlesey, Cambs Greene King - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Plum Mild (ABV 5.0 %) LocAle Last of the Marmalade on Toast (ABV 4.5 %) Warming & summer plums! It’s a strong mild and yes, it tastes malty beer with a subtle hint of orange liqueur; of plums! giving it a zesty aroma Kissingate - Lower Beeding, Horsham, W Sussex Black Cherry Mild (ABV 4.2 %, OG 1042) Very dark wholesome mild. Subtle rounded flavours from black & amber malts. Hints of fruitiness from black cherry inclusions. A lasting but mild bitterness from Amarillo hops Panther - Reepham, Norfolk Honey Panther (ABV 4.0 %, OG 1044) Amber coloured gentle flowing brew with honey and malt throughout. Malt, caramel and hop flavours taper to a bittersweet finale Skinner’s - Truro, Cornwall Ginger Tosser (ABV 3.8 %) Hoppy golden ale, fused with Cornish honey, gives this session beer a superb round finish with a hint of ginger. First brewed for red headed pancake tossers! St Peter’s - St Peter S Elmham, Bungay, Suffolk Dark G-Free (ABV 4.2 %) The beer pours oaky brown, with a nose of chocolate and fruits, leading to a sweet, full bodied beer with some liquorice notes. A dry aftertaste follows - Gluten free

Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 13 Huntingdonshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2012

14 Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 15 The Real Ales ü An easy checklist of real ales at the festival Brewery Beer ABV% Style Abbeydale Dr Morton's Alphabetti Forgetti 4.1 Golden Ale Bad Co Dazed and Confused 5.5 Stout Bartrams Captain Bill Bartram's Best 4.8 Strong Bitter Bitter Bartrams Green Man 4.0 Golden Bexar County A Lemon Tree My Dear Watson LocAle 3.7 Speciality Bexar County American Pale Ale LocAle 4.5 Speciality Black Hole Brewery Cosmic II 4.2 Best Bitter Blue Monkey BG Sips 4.0 Golden Ale Brewsters Stilton Porter 4.9 Porter Brighton Bier Co Free State 4.5 Best Bitter Burning Sky Plateau 3.5 Golden Ale Castle Rock Black Gold 3.8 Mild Castle Rock Idle Valley Reserve 5.0 Strong Bitter Castle Rock Red Riding Hood 4.3 Best Bitter Charnwood Salvation 3.8 Golden Ale Clarkshaws Gorgon's Alive! 4.0 Best Bitter Dark Star Festival 5.0 Strong Bitter Dark Star Hophead 3.8 Golden Ale Digfield Ales March Hare LocAle 4.2 Best Bitter Digfield Ales Old Crow Porter LocAle 4.3 Porter Downlands Best 4.1 Best Bitter Elland 1872 Porter 6.5 Porter Elland Pilgrim IPA 5.0 Strong Bitter Greene King Marmalade on Toast 4.5 Speciality Greene King New Horizons IPA 6.0 Strong Bitter Hammerpot Shooting Star 3.8 Bitter Hook Norton Hooky Mild 2.8 Mild Kissingate Black Cherry Mild 4.2 Speciality Kissingate Kissingate Sussex 4.0 Bitter Kissingate Murder of Crows 10.0 Stout Lacons Affinity 4.8 Golden Ale Lacons Extra Stout 4.5 Stout Lymestone Pounamo 4.2 Best Bitter Mallard Specduckular 4.2 Golden Ale Marble Chocolate Marble 5.5 Old Ale Nene Valley Australian Pale LocAle 4.4 Best Bitter Nene Valley Blond Session Ale LocAle 3.8 Golden Ale Nene Valley Mid-Week Bender LocAle 7.4

16 The Real Ales ü Your real ale bar manager is Allan Shaw Brewery Beer ABV% Style Nobby's Best Bitter LocAle 3.8 Bitter Nobby's Swift Nick LocAle 4.2 Best Bitter Oakham Beer Monster LocAle 4.8 Strong Bitter Oakham Citra LocAle 4.2 Golden Ale Oakham Mompesson’s Gold LocAle 5.2 Strong Bitter Old Cannon Best Bitter 3.8 Bitter Old Cannon Blonde Bombshell 4.2 Golden Ale Panther Golden Panther 3.7 Bitter Panther Honey Panther 4.0 Speciality Papworth Brewery Mad Jack LocAle 4.1 Best Bitter Papworth Brewery Robin Goodfellow LocAle 5.4 Strong Bitter Pheasantry Stout 4.8 Stout Pin-Up Session IPA 4.1 Golden Ale Purity Pure Gold 3.8 Bitter Rat White Rat 4.0 Best Bitter Red Brewery Spartan Hoplite LocAle 6.0 Strong Bitter Red Brewery White Duck IPA LocAle 4.8 Golden Ale Rudgate Ruby Mild 4.4 Mild Salopian Bauhaus 4.2 Golden Ale Skinner's Ginger Tosser 3.8 Speciality Son of Sid Muck Cart Mild LocAle 3.5 Mild Son of Sid My Kingdom for a Horse LocAle 6.5 Golden Ale St Peter's Dark G-Free 4.2 Speciality St Peter's Golden Ale 4.0 Golden Ale St Peter's Grapefruit Beer 4.7 Speciality St Peter's Hoppy T’Ale 4.2 Golden Ale Tempest Armadillo 3.8 Best Bitter Tempest Elemental Dark 5.1 Porter Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9 Strong Bitter Three Legs Pale Ale 3.7 Golden Ale Timothy Taylor Dark Mild 3.5 Mild Tiny Rebel Cwtch 4.6 Best Bitter Tiny Rebel Dirty Stop Out 5.0 Stout Titanic Chocolate & Vanilla Stout 4.5 Speciality Titanic Plum Porter 4.9 Speciality Xtreme Ales Plum Mild LocAle 5.0 Speciality Xtreme Ales Single Hop Simcoe LocAle 5.0 Strong Bitter Wolf Granny Wouldn’t Like It 4.8 Strong Bitter

LocAle Denotes a beer brewed within 30 miles of the festival Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 17 Bottled Beer Bar We hope you will pay the bottle beer bar a visit - it’s has an even gentler hop character. well worth it. As always, we will have a wide and titillating selection of beers from Belgium, The prefix edel-, as in ‘edelpils’, refers to the fact Netherlands, Poland, Germany and USA. that the beer has been brewed from the best quality hops. Edel is German for ‘noble’. Examples: Please take note of our main bar rules: No drinking Augustiner Helles, Jever Pils, Trunk Dunkel. from the bottle. All beer will be poured from the bottle into your glass. No glass, no service. Kellerbier or ‘cellar beer’, is unfiltered lager that is Takeaways are available, but a bottle deposit will usually quite hoppy and aromatic. Kellerbiers are apply. Enjoy. generally amber or reddish in colour.

Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers, Kӧlsch Always popular when the weather is hot will be only too happy to help you find something to (and indeed when it isn’t), Kӧlsch beers are blond, suit your taste. If you think you’ll need some fizzy and easy drinking, and therefore easily guidance, please come and ask. confused with lager. In fact these beers are top- fermented and so are technically pale ales. The We have included below some of the main beer name “Kӧlsch” refers to the city of Cologne. styles and terminology that you are likely to come Example: Früh Kӧlsch. across at our bar. If you’re looking for something more obscure and different, don’t worry, we may Rauchbier Rauch is German for ‘smoke’, and the have that too! name signifies that the barley malt has been dried over an open fire. This treatment gives the beer a Don’t forget, you can buy many of these beers from distinctive smoked flavour that is reminiscent of Wadworths in St Ives, Bacchanalia in Cambridge, barbecued burgers or sausages. These beers or from Beers of Europe in Setchey, Norfolk. have a dedicated and very enthusiastic group of fans (including a few of the festival staff). Example: Germany Aecht Schenkerla. Lagers and Pilsners Germany produces a huge variety of lagers and pilsners, which are easy- Weizenbier/Weissbier The German term drinking, effervescent beers generally ranging from weizenbier translates as ‘wheat beer’, beer in 4.5 to 5.5% ABV. Beers from the north of the which, as the name implies, some or all of the country tend to be more bitter and hoppy than barley is replaced with wheat. German weizenbier those brewed further south. A beer designated a is made with at least 50% wheat. The term pilsner is likely to be more hoppy than a lager. weissbier means ‘white beer’, which refers to the Lagers and pilsners are brewed through a distinctly familiar pale yellow colour of wheat beers. different process from ales. They are bottom- However, there are also dunkel weizen, or dark fermented at a significantly lower temperature - wheat beer. Wheat beers are commonly unfiltered, around 10 degrees C ­ and for weeks or months making the beer naturally cloudy. These beers are rather than days. A different species of yeast is also sometimes referred to as hefeweizen, or ‘yeast required wheat’ beers. In contrast, kristalweizen are filtered and therefore clear. Most weizenbiers are sold Helles beers are straw-coloured lagers. Helles is bottle or caskconditioned,­ which means they are German for ‘light’, referring to the colour of the beer very lively when poured. Like any wheat beer, (not the strength). German wheat beers are generally very refreshing and easy to drink. They tend to have complex and Dunkel beers are dark brown in colour, and are interesting flavours, which can include clove, generally less bitter and hoppy than their blond banana and a spicy character. To allow these counterparts, though still light and refreshing. They flavours to shine, these beers are usually lightly are very different in character from British dark hopped and therefore not bitter. Example: ales, so don’t be put off trying one if you think you Andechser Weissbier Hell don’t like dark beer. You may also come across a schwarzbier, which is even darker in colour and

18 Bottled Beer Bar Belgium deliciously refreshing style of beer. Example: It is virtually impossible to capture all Belgian beers Struise Witbier. in a neat set of categories, as the variety is huge. Here we introduce you to some of the foremost Wild beer or Iambic Wild beer’ is a catch-all term categories to help you navigate your way around for beers that are fermented using yeast present in most of what we have to offer. If you spot the air, rather than yeast selected and added by the something on our menu that doesn’t fit within any brewer. Additionally, to produce Iambic, brewers of these categories, we recommend you give it a use old hops that still have their antiseptic qualities, try! but have lost much of their bitterness. Finally, the beer may be left to age for up to four years to allow Abbey and Trappist Beers The terms abdijbier the complexity of flavours to develop. The result is (abbey beer) and Trappist are appellations rather a sour beer that should be drunk almost more like a than referring to a particular style of beer. Abbey wine than a beer. There is a reason these are beers are brewed in the monastic tradition on known as the champagne of beer! Gueuzes are behalf of a particular abbey, while Trappist beers blends of lambics of different ages, and are more still see monks themselves involved in the brewing commonly encountered than straight Iambics. process. Many abbey and Trappist brewers offer beer according to a system that reflects the role of Krieks and Framboises are produced by steeping the drink in monastic life, with beers at three cherries or raspberries, respectively, in casks of different strengths. The lightest beer was for daily fermenting Iambics. These beautifully coloured consumption, the mid-strength beer for special beers can range from quite sweet to very tart and occasions, and the strongest beer for guests and refreshing, and are consistently popular. for sale outside the abbey. However, not all Examples: Drie Fonteinen, Girardin Framboise. breweries follow this pattern, notably Orval, who An increasingly popular activity of offer a single dry-hopped amber beer that is unlike Flavoured ales brewers in Belgium and elsewhere is to add fruit or anything else and well worth a taste. These days, other flavours to beer­usually in an attempt to make the mid-strength beer (about 5.5-7%) is often a the beer sweeter and more appealing to those less ‘dubbel’, a rich dark brown beer that has a enamoured of hoppy bitterness. Fruit-flavoured noticeable sweetness. The high strength beer (8- ales now abound, and can be much sweeter than 9.5%) is generally a ‘tripel’, a blond beer that may the crisp fruited Iambics. Another popular range in flavour from sweet to dry and hoppy, and flavouring is honey, which when fermented has the has lovely depth of flavour that may include spicy effect of softening the usual bitterness of the beer or fruity notes. The monastic tradition has had wide without becoming overly sweet or cloying. influence on brewing in Belgium, and you will see Examples: Drie Horne Besselaer (redcurrant), numerous dubbels and tripels offered by non- Dupont Biece de Miel (Honey). abbey breweries. Examples: Rochefort 6 8 and 10. Your bottled beer bar manager is Roy Endersby Blonds Belgian blond ales range hugely in strength, flavour and, it must be said, quality (though we naturally only stock the best!). A good Belgium/Netherlands blond will avoid blandness but still be easy to drink, Boelens, Bieken 8.5% ABV 33cl Hazy golden even the ones higher in strength. If you are new to beer with a strong head. The aroma and flavour is Belgian beer this style is a good place to start. lightly spiced, lightly yeasty with dulled fruit. Examples: Kierkom Bink Blond, Witkap Stimulo De Molen Heen & Weer 9.2 ABV 33cl Delicious Witbier Witbier is the Flemish term for wheat beer, tripel. Smooth, fruity and soft sweetness to it. Very the Walloon equivalent being blanche; both names good and balanced beer. mean ‘white’, referring to the universally pale colour of Belgian wheats. In contrast to the fruity, Emelisse, Smoked Rye IPA 6.2% ABV 33cl An spicy notes in German wheat beers, Belgian wheat IPA brewed with 20% Rye malt and 10% beers are typically citrusy and may have hints of Wevermann smoked malts. Simcoe and cascade herby coriander. This is a very accessible, hops Booze on the Ouse St Neots 2016 19 Bottled Beer Bar De Naeckte Brouwers Leprechaun 8.0% ABV Boon, Kriek (Cherry) 4.5%ABV 37.5cl Ruby red 33cl Firm head. Colour is brown. Aroma and taste in colour with tan head. All cherries, thick luscious are roast malt, caramel, hops, nuts and chocolate. aroma. Flavour is cherries, low carbonation. Bitter finish. Delicious.

Rameses Bier Shire Stout 8.9% ABV33cl A stout Boon, Oude Kriek (Cherry) 6.5% ABV 37.5cl from Rameses Bier brewed at the 3 Horne brewery. Dark red and sour with medium dryness and Brewed with biological coffee, vanilla, hop flowers, cherries. A fine lambic. bog myrtle and juniper berry. Boon, Gueuze Mariage Parfait 8% ABV 37.5cl Ramese Bier Pardoen Koele Kikker 6.6% ABV Crisp, clean and dry; a brew that is simply subtle, 33cl Hazy amber brew with a dry bitter tate and balanced and well crafted. hints of caramel. Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueuze 6.0% ABV 37.5cl Roole Dop Double Oatmeal Stout 9.6%ABV 33cl Chocolate and roasted malts, which are Girardin, Framboise (Raspberry) 5% ABV 37.5cl combined with soft smoothness from the oats. Add Brown-reddish colour with a big slightly pinkish and in a little bitterness from Columbus hops and you off-white head. Sweet raspberry aroma. Tart get a dangerously drinkable double oatmeal stout. raspberry flavour with some sweetness.

Rodenbach Grand Cru 6%ABV 33cl A blend of Hanssens, Oude Gueuze 6% ABV 37.5cl A 1/3 young beer and 2/3 of beer aged 2 years in mixture of several vintages to produce a lambic large oak vats. The more important proportion of which is refreshingly fruity with a dry finish. oak matured beer contributes to its fruity taste, complexity and intensity. The finish is worthy of a Oud Beersel, Oude Kriek 6.5% ABV 37.5cl great wine. Everything a sour ale should be. Effervescent on the tongue, tart in the back of the throat. Deep Van Steenberge Gulden Draak 9000 10.5% ABV complex flavour. 33cl Three different kinds of malt, provide the Gulden Draak with a deep golden amber colour Timmermans, Strawberry 4%ABV 33cl Light and a fruity scent. Together with the smooth and hazy red color with off white pinkish head. Sweet subtle sweet taste ensures this a wonderful and tart fruity aroma, strawberry. Sweet and light. accomplished bouquet. Timmermans, Kriek 4%ABv 33cl Dark red color, pink head. Aroma of cherries and candy. Taste is Trappist Beers medium sweet. Abbaye St-Rémy, Rochefort 8 9.2% ABV 33cl Dark brown with a reddish tinge. Aromas of malt and fruit. Sweet malt and caramel flavours with a Germany Andechs, Dunkles Weissbier 5% ABV 50cl refreshing fruitiness. Cloudy chocolate colour. Intense fruity wheat Abbaye St-Rémy, Rochefort 10 11.3% ABV 33cl aroma with light caramel notes. Likewise fruity Dark brown colour with a slight head. Aroma of taste and a long lasting roasty, bittersweet dark fruits and malt. A complex beer with a mix of sparkling palate. Perfect Dark wheat beer. flavours. Andechs, Weissbier Hefetrub 5.5% ABV 50cl A quite pale cloudy brew, firm head, fresh yeasty Gueuze and Lambic smell. Wonderful refreshing wheat beer. Boon Framboise (Raspberry) 4.5% ABV 25cl Clear deep red with a pink head. Aroma has notes Andechs, Bergbock Hell 6.9%ABV 50cl Clear pale of raspberries with a hint of sourness. Taste is light golden colour.. Medium bodied, alcohol not too to medium sweet and light sour with a long present in taste. Some hopnotes detectable but not raspberry, fruity and very dry finish. bitter, well balanced. Nice Bock.

20 Bottled Beer Bar Heller, Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen from a long maturing and high levels of extract. 5.1% ABV 50cl Smoky flavour of malts, wood and Mild bitterness and a strong malt notes. hops with some sweetness, and a hoppy finish. An intense smoky beer. Amber Kozlak 6.5%ABV 50cl A great beer. Smooth with amber/dark colour .Nice head, great Heller, Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen aroma of smoked barley or hops. Reputed to be 5.2% ABV 50cl The famous smoky beer made with one of the best on Polish market barley and wheat malts. UK Heller, Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock DRAYCOTT Buckden, Cambs. The beers are 6.5%ABV 50cl A smoked bock beer for Bamberg’s bottle-conditioned and have received CAMRA Real strong beer season (October through December). Ale in a Bottle accreditation; they are available in Matured for months in ancient rock-cellars ‘proper’ one-pint bottles. underneath Bamberg Buckden Bronze Bitter 4.1% ABV A golden- Heller, Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche Doppelbock amber ale with gentle nut and caramel taste. 8% ABV 50cl Oak Smoke Malt has a smoother and more multi layered smoky note than the intensely Buckden Black Porter 3.8% ABV This dark aromatic Beech Smoke Malt. The hence complex garnet-brown beer has a welcoming aroma of malt smokiness in the “Schlenkerla Oak Smoke” is with a touch of liquorice and some fruit. Crisp and paired with Hallertau aroma hops. With 8% alcohol not too heavy, on the sweet side of bittersweet, but and amber colour it matures for months in the deep with bitter roasted grain and contrasting fruit notes. brewery cellars underneath Bamberg into a special Well roasted grain dominates the dry, bitter finish treat for smoke beer lovers. Buckden Pale Ale 4.1% ABV Light golden ale. Früh Kölsch 4.8%ABV 50cl Top-fermented beer Has an initial caramel and honey flavour with a features the best ingredients. A favorite beer of follow-on aroma of peaches and cream. Cologne, which became one of the city’s original. Buckden Ruby Bitter 4.6% ABV A copper Hackerr-Pschorr Oktoberfestbier 5.8%ABV coloured fruity sweetish bitter with biscuity malt 50cl Clear deep golden color, white head. Aroma is and a hoppy finish from a blend of Challenger, light malts and some fruity notes. Malty taste, fruity Pilgrim and Northdown hops notes, some hops

Küppers Kölsch 4.8% ABV 50cl Thick creamy USA white head. Clear golden pour. Nice and refreshing Booklyn Black Chocolate Stout 10% ABV 35.5cl An award winning redition of the Imperial Stout Jever Pils 4.9% ABV 50cl Light straw coloured style once made exclusively for Catherine the pils, with a delicate malt favour and a hop bite. Great.

Paulaner Salvator 7.5%ABV 50cl A rich red- Flying Dog Easy IPA 4.7% ABV 35.5cl A light brown in colour. Rich roasted caramel malts. bodied brew with huge citrus notes upfront that Flavour is a nice slightly spicy caramel, good level blend into fruit (think of apricot and peach) of yeastiness, slightly bitter. Very good beer. softness. Biscuit malt notes float in the back ground as it finishes crip and refreshing. Scheyern Weissbier Dunkel 5.2%ABV 50cl Pours cloudy dark brown with a huge forthy off- Rogue Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout 6%ABV white hrad that lingers. Strong and typical Weiss 35.5cl Thick & black with a creamy tan head that aromas of banana and yeast. lasts all the way down. Textbook stout flavours... roasted malts, chocolate, hint of coffee, slight Poland smoke. Light bitter finish, perfect sweetness. Spot on. Amber Johannes 6.5%ABV 50cl A beer with a full and mature bouquet. Its essential flavour comes 21 Ouse Boozers The Best Local Real Ale Pubs – Use EATON SOCON Eaton Oak Them or Lose Them! Great North Road, PE19 7DB. A stylish food Recently, the combined effects of the smoking oriented pub that offers Wells Eagle IPA, Wells ban, tax rises, supermarket discounting of Bombardier and Youngs Special. alcoholic drinks and the general downturn in spending have hit pubs hard and nationally pub EATON SOCON Old Sun closures are running at 29 a week. But most 161 Great North Road, PE19 8EQ. Popular pubs are viable under the right management, community pub that offers Greene King IPA and and CAMRA would like to see planning a guest beer. protection to retain existing pubs. This could include enforcing a viability test before allowing EATON SOCON Waggon & Horses conversion to other uses. Great North Road, PE19 8EF. Traditional village pub offering Woodforde’s Wherry and a guest Increasingly, pubs are being converted into beer. restaurants and shops - a change that does not generally require a planning application, EATON SOCON White Horse allowing no opportunity to object to such 103 Great North Road, PE19 8GY. 18th century changes. coaching inn with a well preserved historic interior, offering Lighthouse, Fuller’s Recently the government has announced London Pride, St Austell Tribute and two guest extended protection of pubs listed as Assets of beers. Community Value (ACV), which will now automatically have permitted development EYNESBURY rights removed; this means that a community Cambridgeshire Hunter pub listed as an ACV cannot be demolished or 64 Berkeley Street, PE19 2NF. Community pub converted into other uses such as a shop or offering Wells Eagle IPA and two guest beers. restaurant without planning permission. The Huntingdonshire Branch of CAMRA will in the EYNESBURY Hare & Hounds coming months be seeking to get as many Berkeley Street, PE19 2TX. Community pub community pubs listed as AVCs as possible, and offering Fuller’s London Pride and three guest we welcome the help and support from local pub beers. goers in this campaign. Please see contacts on page 26. LITTLE PAXTON Anchor High Street, PE19 6HA. Busy community pub Real ale choice and availability can only be offering three or four regularly changing guest encouraged by retaining a wide range of local beers. pubs. And their future is in your hands. Why not lend your support by visiting some of the ST NEOTS Bridge House following pubs in the local area, selected and Market Place, PE19 2AP. 16th century riverside recommended for their choice of well-presented town pub and restaurant offer three regularly real cask ales. changing guest beers.

EATON FORD Barley Mow ST NEOTS Coach House 27 Crosshall Road, PE19 7AB. A busy 18 High Street, PE19 1JA. Busy pub offering community pub that offers Greene King IPA and good value food and up to five real ales Abbot and a regularly changing guest beer. including Greene King IPA, Abbot and guest beers.

22 Ouse Boozers ST NEOTS Hog & Partridge Pride and an imaginative changing selection of 25 Russell Street, PE19 1BA. Offers a wide and two guest beers. constantly changing range of real ales from small independent brewers, typically at least BLUNTISHAM White Swan four real ales, and a good range of real cider and 30 High Street, PE28 3LD. Friendly village perry. community pub, offering four real beers including Greene King IPA, Fuller’s London ST NEOTS Hyde Park Pride, and two changing guest beers, one of New Street, PE19 1AJ. Large busy community which is from the Cambridge Moonshine pub offering Black Sheep Bitter, Courage brewery. Directors, John Smiths Cask Bitter and one guest beer. CATWORTH Racehorse 43 High Street, PE28 0PF. Village community ST NEOTS Pig ‘n’ Falcon pub, offering three guest beers including beers 9 New Street, PE19 1AE. Offers a wide and from local breweries like Digfield and Nene constantly changing range of real ales from Valley, and also Westons Old Rosie real cider. small independent brewers, typically at least eight real ales, and a good range of real cider COLNE Green Man and perry. 1 East Street, PE28 3LZ. Village community pub, offering five real ales with regular beers ST NEOTS Olde Sun Oakham Inferno and Sharp’s Doom Bar, and 11 Huntingdon Street, PE19 1BL. Low beamed three guest beers often including beers from cosy traditional town centre pub offering local brewery Elgoods. Woodforde’s Wherry, and five constantly changing guest beers, including beers from ELLINGTON Mermaid Adnams, Elgoods, Marstons, Thwaites, and High Street, PE28 0AB. Recently reopened Woodforde’s , and Westons Old Rosie real village community pub offering three guest cider. beers and good food.

ST NEOTS Weeping Ash GLATTON Addison Arms 15 New Street, PE19 1AD. Wetherspoons Sawtry Road, PE28 5RZ. Village community conversion of a former post office, which offers pub, offering Digfield Shacklebush, guest beers Greene King Ruddles Best Bitter and Abbot, from other local breweries, and Cromwell real and a choice of typically two guest beers, and at cider. least two real ciders. GREAT PAXTON Bell There are also many excellent out-of-town pubs 50 High Street, PE19 6RF. Family run village in our area and the following are particularly community pub offering Woodforde’s Wherry, recommended. Make sure you take a non- Morland Old Golden Hen and Cromwell real drinking driver. cider.

ABBOTSLEY Eight Bells GREAT STAUGHTON White Hart Hight Street, PE19 6UJ. Traditional village 56 The Highway, PE19 5DA. Village community community pub offering two changing guest pub offering Bateman XB, XXXB and a guest beers. beer.

ABINGTON PIGOTTS Pig and Abbot HARTFORD King of the Belgians High Street, SG8 0SD. A busy and welcoming 27 Main Street, PE29 1XU. Community pub village local. Adnams Bitter, Fuller’s London offering good food and regularly changing 23 Ouse Boozers selection of three guest beers, and Cromwell Timothy Taylor Landlord with occasional guest real cider. beers.

HEMINGFORD GREY Cock ST IVES Royal Oak High Street, PE28 9BJ. A stylish village local 13 Crown Street, PE27 5EB. Busy town centre offering top quality food and a range of well-kept pub offering a range of up to six real ales, local real ales, typically from Elgoods, Great always including something from Oakham Oakley, and Brewsters. brewery, and real ciders.

HUNTINGDON Falcon TILBROOK White Horse Market Hill, PE29 3NR. 16th century former High Street, PE28 0JP. A Charles Wells village coaching inn with 15 handpumps: typical pub serving Wells Eagle IPA, Bombardier and offerings are Marston’s Old Empire, Nobby’s two guest beers. Good food and large garden. Best, Potbelly Pigs Do Fly, and many beers from Northamptonshire breweries. Also offers a good WISTOW Three Horseshoes range of real ciders. High Street, PE28 0JP. A traditional village pub offering Adnams Southwold Bitter and Ghost HUNTINGDON Old Bridge Hotel Ship. 1 High Street, PE29 3TQ. Elegant hotel in an ivy clad 18th century building offering Adnams For full details of all the area’s best pubs (and Southwold Bitter and two guest beers which are those across the UK) seek out the 2016 Good often local breweries Harts and Nene Valley. Beer Guide or for details of all pubs go to WhatPub. HUNTINGDON Victoria 52 Ouse Walk, PE29 3QW. A traditional community local in a residential area of the town offering St Austell Tribute, Sharp’s Doom Bar and a guest beer.

LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD Green Man 39 The Avenue, PE28 5AW. Popular village community pub offering a changing range of four real ales often includes beers from Nethergate, Young’s, Digfield, Oakham and Buntingford. Good food also served.

LITTLE GRANSDEN Chequers Main Road, SG19 3DW. Friendly rural pub, full of character, and run by the same family for 60 years. Home brewed real ales from the Son of Sid brewery at the back of the pub. Also offers Pickled Pig real cider.

OLD WESTON Swan Main Street, PE28 5LL. 16th century oak- beamed village pub with an impressive inglenook, and featuring Greene King Abbot and

24 25 Branch Events Contacts March Chairman: Richard Harrison, 07740 675712 Wed 23rd Post Festival Social - Hog & (m), [email protected] Partridge, St Neots, 8pm. All new members : Ray London, 01480 390135 (h), who join at the festival will receive a free pint. Secretary [email protected]. April Treasurer: Andy Blagbrough, 01480 810756 Fri 8th Quiz Night - Falcon, Huntingdon, (h), [email protected] starting at 7.30pm. Tue 19th Annual General Meeting - Falcon, Magazine Editor: Andy Shaw, 01480 355893, Huntingdon, 8.15pm. 07802 485449, [email protected]. Sat 23nd Bermondsey Beer Mile - Rail Trip Membership Secretary: Margaret Eames, to London to complete the Bermondsey Beer 01480 385333 (h) Mile, a collection of small breweries. One day travel cards cost £22.70 as individuals or £15.00 Social Secretary: Juliet Ferris, 07590 579283, each in groups of 3 or more. 09:00 train from [email protected]. Huntingdon 09:08 train from St. Neots will get us to South Bermondsey at 11:01. May Tue 10th Open Branch Meeting - Venue TBC, 8.15pm. Contact the social secretary for more details. An up to date listing of events can be found at: www.hunts.camra.org.uk/diary.

Wildlife Trust - Huntingdonshire Local Group The Wildlife Trust a fabulous area for both wildlife and people, Huntingdonshire Local much as Paxton Pits is today. Your donations to Group has been invited by the Wildlife Trust at this beer festival will help us Huntingdonshire CAMRA to to achieve this aim. help with the glasses section at the beer festival. The Wildlife Trust is the only national organisation that seeks to protect all wildlife.

We aim to raise awareness of the Wildlife Trust All our reserves are open to the public free of and collect donations to maintain and improve charge every day of the year and provide the Trust’s nature reserves in Huntingdonshire. wonderful opportunities for a few moments of peace and tranquillity at one with the natural The Wildlife Trust had 18 nature reserves in world. Huntingdonshire, such as Grafham Water Nature Reserve, Brampton Wood and For more information, please ask any of our Gamlingay Wood. In December 2012, this volunteers or pick up a leaflet. became 19 when we acquired a three year lease on Godmanchester Cow Lane Gravel George Cottam, Chairman Pits, with an option to buy. This area of lakes, www.wildlifetrust-huntsareagroup.org.uk willow woods, grassland and scrub will become 26 27 28