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meandering river nene twinkling in the sunlight fotheringhay village was the location of our final pub this trip and i was hoping to try more digfield ales we headed along the main street of this beautiful village lined with stone cottages to the falcon inn another lovely stone pub which we have visited before but on this occasion it looked lighter and brighter with quality furnishings including cushioned window seats and a roaring open fire which was great to see despite the fact it was sunny day this spacious pub is popular for food with a dining room in the conservatory the orangery which spills out onto the terrace although the pub often has digfield beers on draft the barman told me that they rotate their guest ales often and grainstore s rutland osprey was the local beer on offer that sunday we bought a couple of those and sat in the lovely grassy beer garden in the sun and enjoyed the light citrussy golden ale which tasted stronger than its 4 abv we bought a few bottles of local ales from one of the village stores and as soon as we returned home from our weekend break we cracked them open a smoky and rich p51 porter from kings cliffe brewery brewed in kings cliffe few miles from bulwick and more bottles of rutland osprey to remind us of that sunny beer garden in peaceful fotheringhay east northamptonshire and rutland are a world away from cambridge and worth a trip for their pubs and local ales alone share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading published in uncategorized on july 15 2020 at 9 26 am leave a comment 44th cambridge beer festival preview here s an article i wrote for local secrets about what to expect at the fantastic 44th cambridge beer festival read on cheers it s time for the cambridge beer festival raspberry ginger and chilli stouts porters brewed with coffee beans chocolate orange ales and beetroot flavoured wheat beers these are just a few of the interesting and inventive ales that you ll be able to try alongside the more traditional beers ciders perries wines and meads at this year s cambridge beer festival the 44th cambridge beer festival takes place on jesus green from 22 27 may and it is the longest running camra beer festival and one of the biggest regional beer festivals in the uk visitors can look forward to over 200 real ales from the local area and further afield over 80 ciders and perries meads wines and a foreign beer bar with offerings from the usa germany belgium and the netherlands on draft and in bottles our fantastic local breweries will be showcasing their beer and they include take a deep breath milton from waterbeach lord conrads from dry drayton moonshine from fulbourn fellows from cottenham crafty from stetchworth son of sid from little gransden calverleys from cambridge cambridge brewing company from the brewhouse beach brewery from waterbeach milton s craft keg offshoot turpin s from cambridge and three blind mice from little downham and from ever so slightly further afield bexar county from peterborough oakham from peterborough elgood s from wisbech mile tree from wisbech tydd steam from tydd st giles and xtreme ales from whittlesey amongst our local breweries we are lucky enough to have some camra champion beer of east anglia award winners milton moonshine and cambridge brewing company milton will be bringing along their popular marcus aurelius the beer that won gold in the stout category a 7 5 black rich and velvety beer dubbed an imperial roman stout moonshine s chocolate orange stout won gold for speciality beer and this full bodied chocolate and coffee flavoured stout with a hint of orange will also be available at the beer festival cambridge brewing company will be bringing their hoppy and easy drinking pale ale misty river this brewery won the gold award in the porter category for their delicious night porter and silver for the overall champion beer of east anglia also for the night porter a great achievement the beers sourced for the beer festival seem to get more exciting and inventive each year bexar county will be pouring i am not a fruit beer a sour beetroot wheat beer elephant school from brentwood are providing a crème brulée dubbel with cream oat wheat necatrine and berry flavours gyle 59 are bringing a ginger infused ipa called gipa and three blind mice are showcasing russian blud a strong 11 imperial chai latte stout which will be served on keykeg the keykeg beer wall will make an appearance for the second year running with beers suited to higher carbonation and colder temperatures this year brewers with beers on keykeg include cheshire brewhouse with an 8 1 belgian hopped ipa cloudwater brewery with a double ipa at 9 bexar county with a coffee stout called bitter invention of satan and moor with a new quaffable session ale at 3 5 called alldayer the queues at the keykeg wall last year showed how popular this bar quickly became cider mead wine and perry are always very popular at the festival ciders and perries are mainly sourced from cambridgeshire and east anglia and producers include the likes of simon s pickled pig and hereward all the mead or fermented honey comes from the british isles and is one of the largest selection at any camra beer festival mead lovers can expect a variety from sweet to dry mead and producers include lyme bay lindisfarne moniack the rookery and crowded hive all the wine available at the festival is english with some of the producers being chilford hall winbirri vinewards and dedham vale beer glasses can be swapped for wine glasses at the wine bar or glasses counter this year s festival theme is paradise lost to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the first publication of the poem by the 17th century english poet john milton about the biblical story of the fall of man look out for beers called the likes of fallen angel grain brewery and devil s side bexar and spot caskman on the festival poster souvenir glasses who can be seen with his split personalities both devilish and angelic when you enter the beer festival grab a souvenir beer festival guide browse the drinks list buy a sale or return souvenir glass and make your way to the bars the breweries are arranged in alphabetical order around the marquees with the exception of the row of brewery bars on the left as you enter the bars accept cash rather than a token system come well prepared as there are no cashpoints on site there is always plenty of tasty food to eat at the festival including delicious cheeses bread and deli items from the famous cambridge camra cheese counter pieminister pies for great pies and mushy peas daisy s diner for hog roast wood fired pizza from fired up pizza artisan spanish food from azahar veggie dishes from vegetaria and more blue smile is the charity that the cambridge beer festival is supporting this year it supports children with mental health issues and provides expert counselling and mentoring in schools for children between three and 13 years old visitors can donate their spare change to volunteers with collecting buckets or by giving blue smile your festival glass when you leave the festival which attracts around 40 000 visitors per year couldn t take place without volunteers and around 300 are needed sign up at the festival website and you could help build the site collect glasses serve at the bars work on the cheese counter or take down the site when it s all over volunteers receive food and drink tokens a festival t shirt and get to meet new people the cambridge beer festival opens on monday 22 may at 5pm it is free to enter on weekday afternoons 12 3pm while evening sessions 5 10 30pm from monday to wednesday are 4 evening sessions on thursday and friday are 5 and on saturday it s 3 to enter all day entry is free for camra and curas members with a valid membership card share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading published in beer festivals on may 17 2017 at 11 47 am leave a comment cambridge beer festival here s an article i wrote for local secrets about what to expect at this year s cambridge beer festival an award winning dark ale matured over sloe berries a japanese inspired vegan ipa brewed with fresh yuzu juice and fermented with sake yeast and a new camra keykeg beer wall showcasing a relatively new format for dispensing real ales these are just some of the interesting offerings at this year s cambridge beer festival the 43rd cambridge and district camra beer festival takes place on jesus green from monday 23rd to saturday 28th may this is the longest running camra beer festival and as well as being the branch s biggest it is one of the largest regional beer festivals in the uk with over 200 real ales from over 100 breweries including a new range of beers served from keykeg more of that later over 80 ciders and perries a foreign beer bar selling bottled and draft beers and a wine and mead bar there really is a beverage for everyone this year the festival is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the opening of addenbrooke s hospital in 1766 and will be helping to raise funds for the hospital through its dedicated charity addenbrooke s charitable trust act our local breweries are well represented as always and we certainly have some great ones around cambridge and our region moonshine brewery based in fulbourn will be bringing the refreshing and summery raspberry wheat ale and their delicious pale and floral heavenly matter perfect on a hot sunny day fingers crossed cambridge brewing company based in the brew house will be showcasing their hoppy brew house ipa and interestingly named chicken porter a porter with coffee and vanilla milton brewery based in waterbeach will be providing apollo a strong blonde hoppy beer and othello a full flavoured stout with chocolate and a hint of orange they will also be bringing the first beer from beach brewery their craft keg offshoot called waikiki a beer packed with us and nz hops and bergamot oranges other fantastic local breweries to look out for include calverleys in hooper street fellows in cottenham crafty beers in great wilbraham lord conrad s in dry drayton and cambridge s newest cambridge brewery turpin s in perne road who brew a tasty stout cambridge black as well as local breweries there are plenty from far and wide such as siren from berkshire thornbridge from derbyshire tiny rebel from newport in wales and moor from somerset who are bringing their old freddy walker old ale which won beer of the festival here in 2013 as well as a version of the ale matured over sloe berries called sloe walker which sounds wonderful weird beard are also bringing tsujigiri a vegan japanese inspired ipa brewed with fresh yuzu juice and fermented with sake yeast so lots of interesting beers coming to cambridge this year this popular beer festival attracts up to 40 000 people over the course of the event and as the old saying goes if it ain t broken don t fix it we don t change much at the festival each year people seem to like what we do explains bert kenward festival organiser however one thing we have more of this year is beer in keykeg says bert this is a relatively new format for real ale and it s one that a lot of new breweries are using so by having those it makes more beer available to us and our customers the camra keykeg beer wall will showcase 13 british beers in keykeg and there will also be two keykeg beers on the brewery bars so what s so different about keykeg beers essentially instead of a cask a keykeg a plastic bottle containing a bag full of beer is used gas is pumped in to the bottle but remains outside the bag and never comes into contact with the beer it just exerts pressure on the bag to force the beer to the tap certain beer styles work better with this extra carbonation such as the stronger hoppier ales dry stouts and saisons and also more of the hop aromas are retained because the bag is sealed so brewers can really play around with their aromas which is actually a big part of the beer drinking experience keykeg beers are real ales as the carbonation comes from the secondary fermentation which occurs in the container and no gas is artificially added to the beer itself unlike with classic keg beers some of the beers on keykeg are also available on cask so try both versions and compare the two and see which you prefer beers are arranged in alphabetical order by brewery around the large marquee on the bar to the far left however there is also a row of brewery bars grain from norfolk is a new brewery bar this year joining favourites adnams woodforde s and nethergate experimental brewery bexar county from peterborough will be sharing a brewery bar with ely s three blind mice make sure you try bexar county s oak aged papa steve a rich dark beer aged in a glenmorangie oak cask for 8 months and coming in at 9 abv maybe one to leave towards the end of the session luckily the festival serves third of a pint measures cider apple juice and perry can be found at the cider bar featuring local ciders such as angry wasp from cambridge cider company summer session from cassels and cambridge cider from hereward as well as those from further afield perrys include malvern magic perry from herefordshire and pickled pig s apples and pears fine english wine and mead brewed from honey have their own bar swap your beer glass for a wine glass to try these bottled and draft beers from the usa germany the netherlands and belgium are also available at the foreign beer bar as far as food goes visitors are spoilt for choice as well as the famous cambridge camra cheese counter with tons of interesting cheeses breads pork pies and soups there is the fantastic fired up pizza traditional pies from pieminister and vegetarian dishes from vegetaria to name a few if you want to get more involved in the festival sign up to volunteer for a session or more to work behind the bar collect glasses or to set up or take down the festival volunteers receive beer tokens a festival t shirt and free food around 300 volunteers are needed to make the festival happen every year the cambridge beer festival opens at 5pm monday 23rd may opening hours for the rest of the week are 12 3pm and 5 10 30pm tuesday to friday and 12 10 30pm on saturday it s free to enter on week day afternoons while evening sessions from monday to wednesday are 4 evening sessions on thursday and friday are 5 and on saturday it s 3 to enter all day entry is free for camra and curas members with a valid membership card share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading published in beer festivals on may 25 2016 at 11 21 am leave a comment manchester and buxton pubs last month we took a trip to manchester and then to buxton in the peak di...