WIRRAL BEER FESTI VAL NOVEMBER 2015 Programme Hulme Hall Port Sunlight Welcome to the third Wirral BEER FESTIVAL Two Shops: It’s great to welcome so many of you to Hulme wait to try them! We also have Neal Dawson Hall for our third beer festival. We’re very selling his artwork, some of which features The City Centre and passionate about our festivals and we’re keen to photographs of the Ship & Mitre printed onto bring you something new as well as your Travertine stone. West Kirby favourites. We have special brews from familiar It just wouldn’t be a beer festival without breweries, as well as some brand new Brasswurst and they perform for you during the breweries, together with great entertainment Friday night session. Local Rockabilly band ‘The Over 400 and food to go alongside the great beer. Night Whispers’ are here on Thursday night and With a slight change to the layout, Hulme Hall we also have some incredibly talented solo kindly allowed us to take over their bar, which singers, Jo Hartley and Daniel Saleh to look products and now becomes Ship in a Bottle for the weekend, forward to over the weekend. Jonny Rocket where you’ll find all your bottled beers (over 80 and the Retros return after their popular growing in total) and a selection of premium spirits and performance at the last festival, joined on wine – as well as our first dabble into beer Saturday night by Anam Music , a local four piece Large selection cocktails – you really do need to try them! Irish Band performing traditional Ceilidh and The ever-popular Trapper’s Hat was the first contemporary tunes who are sure to get you up cask to sell out at the previous two festivals and and jigging! of ciders makes a return, along with fellow local brewery Peerless with their special brew Experimental. It’s a great opportunity for you to try the current Champion Beer of Britain, Tiny Rebel’s Cwtch – if Changing range of British, you haven’t already. They picked up the coveted Belgian, German, USA and award at CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival in 10% August this year. We have beers from a number Discount other World Beers of popular national breweries including Burning Sky, Hopcraft and Wychwood, and the last few As in the previous two festivals your unused VOUCHER Always new arrivals. We welcome months have seen a number of local breweries beer tokens will be donated to Claire House. for Card carrying CAMRA MEMBERS suggestions for beers to stock bursting onto the scene and we have some great You have raised £2500 so far across the two new beers from Neptune, Rock the Boat, Red events and the charity is extremely grateful for Star and Deva Craft. your continued support. City Centre 45A Whitechapel L1 6DT We welcome back Liverpool Cake Company and That just leaves us to say we hope you enjoy the Opening hours; 10 to 6pm Monday to Saturday. Sundays 11 to 5pm Liverpool Cheese Company, as well as festival festival – and we look forward to seeing you favourite Peninsula Pies. And we are excited to again at the next event! and GRANGE RD WEST KIRBY (opp station) have Bongo’s Rock and Roll Pickles with us. Regular attendees of West Kirby Farmer’s Cheers 10-8pm Monday - Saturday, 12-6pm Sunday market may already be familiar with their Ben and Steve and all the staff at the original recipe chilli condiments and we can’t Ship & Mitre OPEN SUNDAYS 3 Festival Users Guide Food and Stalls Your Glass Merchandise Food A souvenir glass is provided for Souvenir festival T-shirts are available to buy for just your use throughout the festival £10 at the Beer Token desk. Hulme Hall caterers will be providing fresh that is yours to take home with hot food throughout the festival. you. Beer Tokens Chilli and Rice £4.50 With the exception of the Hulme Veg Chilli and Rice (v) £4.00 Hall food and stalls, beer tokens are used throughout instead of cash. Beer tokens are Scouse £4.50 available to buy in £5, £10 and £20 Blind Scouse (v) £4.00 denominations at the tills by the entrance to Pizza Slice £3.50 the main room. Pulled Pork Batch £4.00 Last orders will be called 30 minutes before the end of the session. Gourmet Burger £4.00 Plated Ploughmans £3.50 Beer Colour Coding To help you select your ales from the wide range available we use the following system of coding in the programme. Merry Berry Truffles Stalls Handmade chocolates and I Light Beers Pale, Golden Beers FESTIVAL T-SHIRTS Bongo’s Rock & Roll Chilli truffles from this family run I Amber Beers Amber, Medium Beers business just £10 Pickles I Dark Beers Porters, Milds and Stouts Original recipe chilli condiments, handmade in Cheshire Real Ale Bar Neal Dawson Hulme Hall Plan Artist and documentary Ship in a Bottle Bar Real photographer based in Beer Cocktails Ale Merseyside, producing Bar Real Liverpool Cake Company photographic artwork printed Ale onto Travertine stone Bar Creating beautiful, original and Hot Hot Food imaginative cakes which taste Food & Carvery as good as they look Peninsula Pies Festival favourite Kev is back Toilets Beer Cider with hand-raised pies. And if Bar Liverpool Cheese Tokens Tuck Chocolate Beer Main Garden you’re a fan these pies are Glass Shop Hall Company available all year round at the & Purveyors of Programme Ship & Mitre Fire specialist and artisan cheeses, matured in their Quiet Exit grade II listed old dairy in Liverpool’s Woolton Room Hall Entrance Village Food and stall purchases are cash only Beer Stage THANKS TO: Dennis Jones, Quiet Garden A huge thank you to all Room Liverpool Liverpool Fire Sam Elcock Photography programme designer Main Coasters Cake Peninsular Bongos Cheese Craft & our volunteers without Entrance Pies Co. Exit Continental Jason and C & J Dispense Co. Pickles Bar Laura Robinson, Julie and Allgates Brewery which we could not do Liverpool Organic Andre Fu Mike Bradley this. 4 5 BEER WIRRAL FESTI VAL ENTERTAINMENT Thursday Saturday On Track Beat Club Daniel Saleh 5pm-8pm Fantastic 60’s Dj Set, 12pm-2pm Daniel Saleh, a with beat and soul indie local singer songwriter. anthems. Sure to get the day off with a bang! The Night Whispers Jonny Rocket 8:30pm-10:30pm A Wirral and the Retros rockabilly band that will get you 2:30pm-4:30pm A 6 piece 50's up and dancing. and 60's Rock and Roll Band are sure to get us swinging. Friday 6:00pm-8:00pm Jonny Rocket and the Retros 2nd set. On Track Beat Club 12pm-5pm On Track Beat Club, coming back for a 2nd set to Anam Music get the Friday session off the 8:30pm-10:30pm A local 4 right way. piece Irish Band performing traditional Cèilidh and Jo Hartley contemporary tunes to get 6pm-8pm Female vocalist, will you up and jigging. surprise you with her amazing vocal range. Brasswurst Band Sunday 8:30pm-10:30pm The incredible Brasswurst Band, an authentic All day Background German marching band will music with house have you reaching for the Weisse beer and ‘prost’ your DJ all requests friends. are welcome 66 7 FESTIVAL REAL ALES 8 Sail Brewery Lincolnshire Banks Brewery Located in the shadows of the unique Wolverhampton eight-sailed windmill in the rural village of Using a live strain of yeast in their Heckington near Sleaford, Lincolnshire. cask ales that has been in use for over 100 years. I 1. Millstone 4.5% £3.00 / £1.50 9. Czech Mate 4.4% I £3.00 / £1.50 Modern premium bitter with a good balance of malt flavours and hops Golden blonde beer Bartrams Brewery Allgates Brewery Wigan Suffolk Brewing distinctive and modern beers. Award-winning brewery founded in 1999 in a small 2. Tag Mild 3.6% I £2.50 / £1.25 industrial unit in the village of Thurston. Hints of chocolate and caramel with light hop flavours 10. Black Forest Porter 4.5% I £3.00 / £1.50 Full bodied porter filled with cherry and chocolate Abbeydale Brewery flavours Sheffield Big Hand Brewery Established in 1996 by a father and son team. Wrexham I 3. Chicken Vindaloo 4.1% £3.00 / £1.50 Family run brewery established in 2013. Crisp earthy and spicy aromas 11. Bad Gorilla Mild 6% I £2.00 per half I 4. Los Bancos 4.2% £3.00 / £1.50 Strong mild, malty and easy drinking Fruity character and a refreshing bitter bite 12. Domino Stout 4.4% I £3.00 / £1.50 Ambridge Brewing Co. Coffee aromas, hints of coffee in the flavour Worcestershire Blue Bee Brewery Established in 2014 with the mission of brewing great beer. Sheffield 5. Citra 4.4% I £3.00 / £1.50 Sheffield-based brewery with a large range of special brews alongside its core range. Refreshing beer with a zesty lemon and lime bitter finish 13. Little and Large IPA 6.5% I £2.00 per half 6. Honey Bunny 4.2% I £3.00 / £1.50 Collaboration with North Riding Brewery, this brew is Full flavoured light honey-infused ale packed with Citra, Mosaic and Sorachi Ace hops giving big citrus and tropical fruit (only available in halves) Ashover Brewery 14. Tempest Stout 4.8% I £3.50 / £1.75 Derbyshire Rich well-balanced stout with hints of chocolate and Handcrafted in Derbyshire. coffee leading to a bitter finish 7. Liquorice Alesort 5% I £3.50 / £1.75 Rich stout with root liquorice Black Country Ales Atomic Brewery Birmingham A microbrewery in Lower Gornal that sells their beer in Warwickshire the company’s small collection of characterful pubs Using a combination of traditional skill with across the Midlands.