WINTER BEER FESTIVAL 2008

Thursday 27th November - Sunday 30th 2008
6-8 beers plus mulled wine and mead
starting 6pm Thursday Eve

MIGHTY OAK
Bingle Jells
5.2%
Dark
wonderfully full bodies, full flavoured beer. Deep copper with well balanced malt & hop, both of which are present in abundance.

Ding Dong
4.4%
Porter
A warming dark winter porter to help you reach the high notes this festive season.

Exe Mas Ale
4.2%
Red
Amber-red festive ale brewed with spices, orange zest, ginger and Brewers Gold hops.


BRENTWOOD BREWERY
Chestnut Stout
3.999%
stout
An easy drinking stout brewed with local chestnuts

Rumpy Pumpy
4.5%
mid brown
New beer for Brentwood, as yet without an official description!! The name comes from the addition of rum to this beer. Fairly malty and easy to drink.

Chocwork Orange
6.5%
dark
Naughty but nice, a dark deep chocolaty beer with those pesky oranges for that extra pzazz, surprisingly easy to down!

CROUCH VALE
Santa’s Revenge
5%
pale
A golden coloured ale with bags of fruity flavour, a delight to behold at xmas time. This beer is very similar to their brewers gold extra.

ST AUSTALL
Black Prince
4%
mild
Faint malt and bubblegum aroma of this black mild leads to a complex taste of roast flavours, toffee and fruit esters balanced by bitterness. Liquorice, fudge and bitterness linger on the palate.

Guest Beers

Guest beers for this weekend and next, excluding festival beers.

(Sorry Ja for the delay, preperations fopr the beer festival took over, I hope you'll forgive me!)

Marston’s
World's Biggest Liar 4.3%
To coincide with Worlds Biggest Liar Competition A dark golden brown coloured bitter with a chocolate, toffee and roasted malt aroma. A biscuity flavour with a dry hop finish.

Tripple fff Brewery
Alton's Pride 3.8 %
Bronze award at Olympia 2003 & 2004.Golden brown session bitter, full bodied for 3,8%. A forward hoppy aroma with a long bitter finish. “Excellent, clean-tasting, golden brown session bitter, full bodied for it’s strength. A delicious aroma of malt and hops. An initially malty flavour fades as citrus notes and hoppiness take over, leading to a lasting hoppy, bitter finish.” Good Beer Guide 2005.

Fuller’s
London Pride 4.1%

An award-winning classic. A rich, smooth and wonderfully balanced beer, its distinctive malty base is complemented by well developed hop character, from adding Target, Challenger and Northdown varieties to the brew.

Woodforde’s
Wherry Bitter 3.8%
Fresh and zesty with crisp floral flavours. A background of sweet malt and a hoppy ‘grapefruit’ bitter finish characterises this champion bitter

Guest Beers this week

Guest beers from this weekend (in no particular order):-

Sharp’s
Doom Bar 4%
The aroma of Doom Bar is an accomplished balance of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes. The mouth feel is a perfectly balanced and complex blend of succulent dried fruit, lightly roasted malty notes and a subtle tey assertive bitterness, which remains into the finish with dry fruity notes.

Wychwood’s
The Dog’s Bollocks 5.2%
The dark ruby colour of Witch Otter makes it distinctive. It has a well-balanced malty flavour with a bittersweet chocolate edge.

Hop Back’s
Red Ember 4.6%
Red Ember is a red-brown medium bitterness beer with a citrus hoppiness and subtle ginger aftertones.

2008 Winter Beer Festival
Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th November

WINTER BEER FESTIVAL - 27th - 30th November

Overdue Entry for Beers this Week !

Guest beers due this week (in no particular order) are:-

Wychwood's ON NOW

Hobgoblin 4.4%

Hobgoblin is strong in roasted malt with a moderate hoppy bitterness and slight fruity character that lasts through to the end.
The ruby red coloured Hobgoblin is full-bodied and has a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavour balanced with a rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity character.

Brentwood's ON NOW

Spooky Moon 3.8%

Dark traditional style session bitter with a sweet fruity aftertaste, brewed with chocolate malt and heavily hopped for an extra special flavour.

Sharp’s
Doom Bar 4%
The aroma of Doom Bar is an accomplished balance of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes. The mouth feel is a perfectly balanced and complex blend of succulent dried fruit, lightly roasted malty notes and a subtle tey assertive bitterness, which remains into the finish with dry fruity notes.

2008 Winter Beer Festival
Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th November

Live Music - November

Come and enjoy live music featuring talented local musicians at The Bell every weekend throughout November:

Friday, 7 November - Acousticky
Friday, 14 November - Too Late To Die Young
Friday, 21 November - The Diggers (back bar)
Thursday, 27 November - Darwyn
Friday, 28 November - Apricot Jam
Saturday, 29 November - Disraeli Band


Music starts between 8.30-9.00pm in the Saloon Bar unless stated otherwise. Free Entrance. All welcome.

Sunday, 30 November - Live Jazz Music at 12.45pm in the Disraeli Room. Entrance £3.00 (£5.00 per couple)