Festival Programme & Tasting Notes
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Beer Fest Food… Available in the bar area only. Please order at the main bar. Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 9:30pm Easter Sunday: 12pm to 8pm festival programme & Easter Monday: 12pm to 9pm Our full evening menu is also available in the restaurant, tasting notes prior booking strongly recommended (subject to table availability) Hotdog! £5 Hot local jumbo sausage and onion rings in a white bap Burger £5.50 Beefburger and onion rings in a white bun Add cheese to your burger- £1 Add bacon to your burger- £1 Chicken Bun £6 Chargrilled chicken breast in a white bun with onion rings Chilli Beef Tortillas £5.50 Tortilla crisps with chilli beef and melted cheese Chilli £6 Bowl of homemade beef chilli with rice Scampi £6.50 Breaded wholetail scampi (5 pcs) with chips and homemade tartare Chips £3 (add cheese for an extra £1) Crispy Onion Rings £3 Garlic Bread £3 | Cheesy Garlic Bread £4 EASTER MONDAY 28TH MARCH ANY STILLAGE FESTIVAL ALES REMAINING WILL BE REDUCED TO £2.50 PER PINT FROM 3PM ONWARDS WHEN PURCHASED AT THE ALE BAR (CASH SALES ONLY) The Plough Inn Brockley Green | Hundon | Suffolk | CO10 8DT t: 01440 786789 | e: [email protected] www.theploughhundon.co.uk Live Bands continued... Forthcoming Events at The Plough Easter Sunday 27th March, 8pm, free entry Wednesday 13th April Spring Pudding Night light main course followed by a help yourself buffet of 12 puddings. Tickets on sale now, £24 per guest Stereojack are a fun, vibrant, Friday 6th May entertaining covers band that set Latin American Theme Night with live music from LOS MUSICOS tickets on sale now - £29 per guest for three courses plus live salsa themselves apart from other acts and Latino music from LOS MUSICOS. Food inspired by Mexico, with their uplifting, energetic stage Bolivia, Columbia and Brazil. shows. They play good time anthems from the ‘50’s to today. Thursday 19th May Charity Stand Up Comedy Gig (for Shelter) Easter Monday 28th March, 3pm, free entry Damian Kingsley’s “The Knock Knock Tour” plus support guests tickets on sale now, £5 per guest, all ticket sale monies go to Shelter charity (reg. 263710) Visit our website for more details on the tour or visit Damian’s site- www.damiankingsley.co.uk Friday 3rd June National Fish and Chip Day to celebrate this most British of dhishes, all our fishy dishes on the 1950’s rock and roll, rockabilly and specials boards will be at a special one-off price that day of £9.95 doo wop, with the fabulous Little Sunday 19th June Miss Blue Bass commanding the Father’s Day double bass! Toe tappin’ head serving our full Sunday menu at the usual prices (no set menus boppin’ 50’s, rock ‘n’ roll for the here!) from 12pm through to 8pm. Early booking advisable. closing gig of the fest. Wednesday 27th July Outspoken Theatre Present a Garden Performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet it is Shakespeare400 this year, the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, so a big year for Shakespeare fans. Therefore, Outspoken Theatre will be taking on the biggest and most famous challenge of all - Hamlet. Tickets on sale from the Plough now, £6 per guest with all ticket sale monies going directly to Outspoken Theatre. Every Tuesday night from 6pm - 9pm Tuesday Steak Night any two steaks or grills with chunky chips, mixed dressed salad and a bottle of Berri Estates Chardonnay or Shiraz for only £31 per couple. Prior booking strongly recommended, always a busy night Every first Thursday of the month Plough Pub Quiz in the bar. Entry is £1 per person with a winner takes all format plus the £50 Killer Question! 6 mixed rounds of questions, along with alternating picture and music rounds. Free nibbles at half time, please arrive early to secure your table. Maximum team size of 6. 2 15 Live Bands continued... Saturday 26th March, 3pm, free entry Hello! “Welcome to the 17th Plough Beer Festival. This festival’s theme is “World Hop Tour”; a round up of UK ales brewed with a huge HUDSON variety of hops from around the world. Now, at the last beer festival, ACOUSTIC this theme seemed like a splendid idea- we had literally no idea how Hudson Acoustic comprises of the long it would take to compile the list! After much gnashing of teeth, very talented guitarist Marc Davey pulling of hair and quite a bit of harrassing brewers, we’re delighted and the sparkling vocal of Miss Ellie to present a list that also features ales with hopping from 11 countries, a rare vintage brew, and even a gin and tonic inspired ale Hudson. A refreshing acoustic duo courtesy of those clever award-winning chaps at Nene Valley with a twist; they use a loop station Brewery. to create a beat, which creates rich layers of sound. They cover a The majority (24) of the ales are on the cash-only ale bar, with the wealth of well known songs in their rest on the usual main bar. We offer a cashback service there too, as own inimitable style. well as menus if you’re hungry. You’ll find each ales location (either on the ale or main bar) in the tasting notes. Navigate your way round the beers using the map, which pinpoints the country of each ale’s hopping. The beers are then numbered, but also displayed Saturday 26th March, 8:30pm, free entry in order of ABV from lightest to strongest. To please the ears as well as the tastebuds, there’s 8 amazing bands over 5 days. From folk to pop, rockabilly to punk, indie to chilled out acoustic sets, we’re pretty sure there’s something for everyone. On Easter Monday from 3pm until close, any stillage ales left will be New World Service are a 4 piece £2.50 per pint. Have fun, enjoy and thank you for supporting the covers band with attitude. festival. Cheers!” These bad boys of punk, rock and pop cover a broad range, including Kate Pulp, Blur, U2, The Kaiser Chiefs, Festival Organiser The Killers, Duran Duran, Kinks, Foo Fighters, Feeder and more. Hailing from the sunny East Coast, NWS OPENING HOURS AT THE FESTIVAL always deliver an amazing night out and we love ‘em! Thursday 24th March 12pm to 11:30pm Good Friday 25th March 12pm to 12am Easter Sunday 27th March, 4pm, free entry Saturday 26th March 12pm to 12am Easter Sunday 27th March 12pm to 11pm Easter Monday 28th March 12pm to 10:30pm Untouchable are a professional Children (under 16) welcome at the festival in the bar side until 9pm function band playing classic hits only please. Restaurant dining is not affected. spanning more than fifty years. Please leave dogs at home on live music sessions– it gets pretty busy The band comprises guitar, bass and squashed paws are no fun! and drums complemented by Please Don’t Drink & Drive. Ask for local taxi numbers, or how about strong lead vocals and harmonies. an overnight stay in one of our 4* en suite guest rooms? Feel free to Pop, rock, soul and swing. leave cars in the car park overnight (at owners risk) Daytime performance, 2 pint take out cartons available, all ales/ciders at festival prices. so families most welcome. The Plough welcomes shiny, happy people. All Plough crew members fully reserve their right to entry/service. 14 3 Live Music at the Festival ALL FREE ENTRY 14 26 Thursday 24th March, 8pm, in the bar 6 22 27 23 1 The Harvs incorporate a breadth of musical source seldom heard 8 anywhere. Songs and tunes 200 years and older mingle comfortably 13 4 alongside new releases; nothing is 29 7 safe! Ian and Liam - father & son - 15 ? are quite open to suggestions and odd requests at gigs when they will 10 have a go at stuff they vaguely 2 11 know or have heard somewhere, 25 sometime...Absolutely the perfect band to officially open the festival. 17 3 5 Good Friday 25th March, 3pm, in the bar 18 30 Lisa Porter The fabulous Lisa Porter will be joining us on Good Friday for an eclectic mix of songs, ranging from well known ballads to rock numbers given a quirky acoustic twist, as well as some entirely unexpected numbers! Lisa has a canny knack of taking songs that were simply OK to start with and making them truly stunning. 24 Good Friday 25th March, 8:30pm, in the bar A real feel good covers 4 piece band from Cambridge, Tripwire perform a massive repertoire of varying genres with ease, including rock, ‘80’s, funk, contemporary, pop, soul, folk, country, jazz and blues. Headed up by Barney French on lead vocals. 13 Ciders Continued... Glebe Farm Huntingdon, Cambs SIDE R ELDERFLOWER, 6% abv MAIN BAR Medium. Refreshing cider made from apples grown in Cambridgeshire and flavoured with elderflower. 19 Glebe Farm Huntingdon, Cambs 12 16 SIDE R STRAWBERRY, 6% abv MAIN BAR Medium. Refreshing cider made from apples grown in Cambridgeshire and flavoured with strawberries. 28 Hecks Somerset BLAKENEY RED PERRY, 6% abv MAIN BAR Medium to sweet. This fragrant perry (made with pears) has plenty of fruit taste and lots of body. Hecks Somerset PORTWINE OF GLASTONBURY, 6.5% abv MAIN BAR Medium to sweet. This cider is easy on the palate, a true session cider with light effervesence and lemony tones. Gwynt Y Ddraig Pontypridd, Wales BLACK DRAGON, 7.2% abv MAIN BAR Medium. Matured in oak producing a cider rich in colour, body and flavour.