Issue 99 February - March 2017 FREEFREEFREE please take one the Oxford Drinker The free newsletter of the Oxford and White Horse Branches of CAMRA www.oxford.camra.org.uk www.whitehorsecamra.org.uk Wantage Beer Festival Friday 17 March and Saturday 18 March 2017 February - March 2017 99 2 the Oxford Drinker 99 February - March 2017 Contents Welcome Festival Diary 5 Going to the pub is good 20 A guide to the upcoming for you beer festivals The OOxfordxford Drinker is the newsletter Wantage Tour Gardener’s World of the Oxford and White Horse 6 A guide to the pubs of 21 Paul Silcock gives a branches of CAMRA, the Campaign Wantage for Real Ale. publican’s view 5000 copies are distributed free of Brewery News charge to pubs across the two 10 New breweries and new Pete’s Pubs branches’ area, including Oxford, beers 22 Pete takes a trip round Abingdon, Witney, Faringdon, the pubs of Cowley Eynsham, Kidlington, Bampton, Wheatley and Wantage and most of the villages in between. PDF downloads of past issues are available at the Oxford CAMRA webiste, wwww.oxford.camra.org.ukww.oxford.camra.org.uk. Editorial team: Editor: Dave Richardson
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[email protected]@oxford.camra.org.uk Community Spirit Tony: 07588 181313 25 Graham Shelton on Layout/Design: Matt Bullock community owned pubs Valuable contributions have been Memory Lane received for this issue from Richard 12 City centre pubs past and White Horse Queralt, Paul Silcock, Dick Bosley, present 27 Matt Bullock, Ian Winfield, Dennis News from the White Brown, Tony Goulding, Pete Flynn, Horse Branch and Graham Shelton.