2011 Letchworth
September 22nd to 24th
2 weeks
Join us for our 20th Letchworth Beer & Cider Festival!
- 55 Cask Ales
- Like to know where your beer comes from? We have a map!
Venue:
- Plinston Hall, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3NX
- Only 35 minutes from Cambridge & Kings Cross stations!
- Easy to get to from the station – just a quarter of a mile! See map.
Opening times:
- Thursday 22nd September, 5pm to 11pm
- Friday 23rd September, midday to 11pm
- Saturday 24th September, midday to 11pm
General entry is £2 – CAMRA members, EBCU members and OAPs FREE!
There is a family area available until 7pm on all days.
Any feedback? Use the comments below!
Beer List
Note: While all the beers here are confirmed with our suppliers all kinds of thing can go wrong within a week!
Sorry! The Yates Bitter hasn’t turned up with our delivery!
You can download an Excel spreadsheet version of the list here: Letchworth2011BeerFestivalList.xls
Brewery Map
Cider List
- Apple Cottage (Baldock, Hertfordshire)
- Apple Crumble – Dry, made with two varieties of local apples – 6.6%
- Bishop of Lincoln – Dry, single varietal cider – 6.5%
- King Leonidas – Medium, single variety, Spartan apples – 6.6%
- Rumble – Medium, fermented in rum casks – 6.8%
- Broadoak (Kingslane, Somerset)
- Premium Perry – Sweet, CAMRA Perry of the Year 2009 – 7.5%
- Double Vision (Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent)
- Cider – Medium, Smooth, clean, quaffable – 7.4%
- ‘Impeared Vision’ perry – Medium, seriously quaffable, silky smooth – 7.4%
- Gwynt Y Ddraig (West Bradley, Somerset)
- Black Dragon Cider – Medium Dry, Runner up CotY 2010 – 7.2%
- ‘Two Trees’ perry, aged in oak – 5.0%
- Hecks (Street, Somerset)
- Cider – Medium dry, single variety – 6.5%
- Newtons (Leominster, Herefordshire)
- Cider – Medium dry, exceptional perry, carefully made – 6.5%
- Perry – Medium sweet, classic perry for the connoisseur – 6.5%
- Ross on Wye (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire)
- Perry – Medium dry, very traditional with green, vegetable notes – 6.5%
- Severn Sider (Awre, Gloucestershire)
- Cider – Medium dry, big, full-bodied, very traditional – 6.3%
- Perry – Dry, Whisky casked and very popular – 6.4%
- Sheppys (Bradford on Tone, Somerset)
- Cider – Sweet, long established firm favourite – 6.0%
- Winkleigh (Winkleigh, North Devon )
- Sam?s Cider – Sweet, smooth as silk, clean as a whistle – 6.5%
Foreign Beers
Draught
- Anker
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Gouden Carolus Ambrio — 8.0%
Golden amber version of the darker classic
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Gouden Carolus Ambrio — 8.0%
- Budweisser
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Budvar — 5.0%
Genuine Czech Pilsner
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Budvar — 5.0%
- Lefebvre
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Belgian Kriek — 3.5%
Authentic sweet and sour cherries at a quaffing strength
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Belgian Kriek — 3.5%
- Liefmans
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Kriek Cuvee Brut — 6.0%
A grown up version of the style, cherries in aged Lambic
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Kriek Cuvee Brut — 6.0%
- St. Feuillien
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Brune — 8.0%
Smooth dark double stout
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Brune — 8.0%
- Ultramour
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Berry Bier — 5.0%
Cherries and berries in a rich alcoholic soup
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Berry Bier — 5.0%
Bottled
We also stock a large range of European beers including saisons, lambics, gueuze, kriek, framboise, and Abbey and Trappist beers
How to find the Festival
View Letchworth Station to Plinston in a larger map
BOB is Original, not Old
Ah – oops! Original it is!
Hoping that Brown Cow Captain Oates Dark Mild is soon added to the list! That was my favourite beer from last year’s festival.
Hi Pete, I’m afraid it is a bit late to get the Captain Oates in.
I hope one of our other dark milds makes up for this lack! (Looking forward to trying the Summer Wine “Resistance” myself – and the Potbelly “Beijing Black” is an old favourite of mine.)
Current additions the list are:
- McMullen “Hope & Glory” (best bitter)
- Glebe Farm “Gladiator” (spelt beer)
- Glebe Farm “Hereward” (organic best bitter)
Plus one other “bitter” to be determined very soon I hope (it depends on what our local suppliers have in stock!)
In future if you’d like to suggest beers please pop along to a meeting – or contact us more than 4 days before the festival!
Always happy to take on suggestions – in fact the Northcote Jiggle Juice was suggested to us via twitter! (We’re @nh_camra by the way.) We didn’t even know Northcote existed! (Thankfully one of our suppliers – Wolf Brewery – knows them.)
It was me that requested Jiggle Juice on Twitter after sampling it at Cambridge!
I’ll be tweeting from Letchworth on Friday afternoon / evening. Pics and comments! @i_am_frolicols
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