1
BRAINS DARK 3.5% ABV
Brains Brewery, Cardiff. Est. 1882
2
HARVIESTOUN NUMBER OF THE BEAST 3.6% ABV
Harviestoun Brewery, Clackmannanshire. Est. 1985
3
BATEMANS XB 3.7% ABV
Batemans Brewery, Lincolnshire. Est. 1874
4
EVERARDS WHAKATU 3.7% ABV
Everards Brewery, Leicestershire. Est. 1849
5
JW LEES THE GOVERNOR 3.8% ABV
JW Lees Brewery, Manchester. Est. 1828
6
BANKS & TAYLOR’S ALBION ALE 4.0% ABV
B & T Brewery, Bedfordshire. Est. 1981
7
KALAMAZOO BLACK SILK 4.0% ABV
Bell’s Brewery, Michigan, USA. Est. 1985
8
SALOPIAN VAPOUR TRAIL 4.0% ABV
Salopian Brewery, Shropshire. Est. 1995
9
THORNBRIDGE BROTHER RABBIT 4.0% ABV
Thornbridge Brewery, Derbyshire. Est. 2005
10 WADWORTH OCTOBERZEST 4.0% ABV
Wadworth Brewery, Wiltshire. Est. 1885
11
COACH HOUSE WHIPLASH 4.1% ABV
Coach House Brewery, Cheshire. Est. 1991
12
SHEPHERD NEAME WHITSTABLE BAY 4.1% ABV
hepherd Neame Brewery, Kent. Est. 1698
13 WELLS NAKED GOLD 4.1% ABV
Wells & Young’s Brewery, Bedfordshire. Est. 2006
14
BUTCOMBE RARE BREED 4.2% ABV
Butcombe Brewery, Somerset. Est. 1978
15
COTLEIGH COMMANDO HOOFING IPA 4.2% ABV
Cotleigh Brewery, Somerset. Est. 1979
16
DOUBLE MAXIM ANDERSONS BEST SCOTCH 4.2% ABV
Double Maxim Brewery, County Durham. Est. 2007
17
TRING PUDDING PORTER 4.2% ABV
Tring Brewery, Hertfordshire. Est. 1992
18
ROOSTER’S LAST STAND 4.3% ABV
Rooster’s Brewery, North Yorkshire. Est. 1993
19
VALE LONG DARK NIGHTS 4.3% ABV
Vale Brewery, Buckinghamshire. Est. 1995
20 WOODFORDE’S KETT’S REBELLION 4.3% ABV
Woodforde’s Brewery, Norfolk. Est. 1980
21
OAKLEAF 10 LITTLE ACORNS 4.4% ABV
Oakleaf Brewery, Hampshire. Est. 2000
22 WHARFEBANK TREACLE TOFFEE STOUT 4.4% ABV
WharfeBank Brewery, West Yorkshire. Est. 2010
23
BOX STEAM PISTON BROKE 4.5% ABV
Box Steam Brewery, Wiltshire. Est. 2004
24
MORDUE RED RYE RIWAKA 4.5% ABV
Mordue Brewery, Tyne and Wear. Est. 1995
25
OKELLS SAISON 4.5% ABV
Okells Brewery, Isle of Man. Est. 1850
26
STONE SAN DIEGO SESSION IPA 4.5% ABV
Stone Brewery, California, USA. Est. 1996
27
TITANIC FIT-OUT 4.5% ABV
Titanic Brewery, Staffordshire. Est. 1985
28 WYCHWOOD GINGER BEARD 4.5% ABV
Wychwood Brewery, Oxfordshire. Est. 1983
29
EVAN EVANS 1767 4.6% ABV
Evan Evans Brewery, Carmarthenshire. Est. 2004
30
HEREFORD WYVERN WARRIOR 4.6% ABV
Hereford Brewery, Hereford. Est. 2000
31
HILDEN TWISTED HOP 4.7% ABV
Hilden Brewery, County Antrim. Est. 1982
32
ST PETER’S GOLDEN ALE 4.7% ABV
St Peter’s Brewery, Suffolk. Est. 1996
33
ADNAMS AMERICAN STYLE IPA 4.8% ABV
Adnams Brewery, Suffolk. Est. 1872
34
BEND ECLIPSE CASCADIAN DARK ALE 4.8% ABV
Bend Brewery, Oregon, USA. Est. 1995
35
BREWSTER’S AMERICAN CHOPPER 4.8% ABV
Brewster’s Brewery, Lincolnshire. Est. 1998
36
EXMOOR HART 4.8% ABV
Exmoor Ales, Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Est. 1980
37
BELHAVEN ST ANDREWS ALE 4.9% ABV
Belhaven Brewery, East Lothian. Est. 1719
38
FAT HEAD’S YAKIMA SUN 5.0% ABV
Fat Head’s Brewery, Ohio, USA. Est. 2007
39
MOORHOUSE’S PENDLE PORTER 5.0% ABV
Moorhouse’s Brewery, Lancashire. Est. 1865

40
RCH FIREY LIZ 5.0% ABV
RCH Brewery, Somerset. Est. 1982

41
ST AUSTELL PROPER BLACK 5.0% ABV
St Austell Brewery, Cornwall. Est. 1851

42
THWAITES DANIEL’S HAMMER 5.0% ABV
Thwaites Brewery, Lancashire. Est. 1807

43
TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH ALES TAKING THE PITH 5.0% ABV
Traditional Scottish Ales, Stirlingshire. Est. 2005

44
HOOK NORTON FLAGSHIP ALE 5.3% ABV
Hook Norton Brewery, Oxfordshire. Est. 1850

45
ODELL 90 SHILLING 5.3% ABV
Odell Brewery, Colorado, USA. Est. 1989

46 WHITE HORSE HORSE RUSTLER 5.4% ABV
White Horse Brewery, Oxfordshire. Est. 2004
47
BRAKSPEAR TRIPLE 5.7% ABV
Wychwood Brewery, Oxfordshire. Est. 1983
48
BEARTOWN WOJTEK 5.8% ABV
Beartown Brewery, Cheshire. Est. 1994
49
CALEDONIAN COSSACK IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT 6.0% ABV
Caledonian Brewery, Edinburgh. Est. 1869
50
MORLAND OLD CRAFTY HEN 6.5% ABV
Greene King Brewery, Suffolk. Est. 179

The list for the next Wetherspoon Real Ale Festival ( 27 Oct to 14 Nov 2010) has been announced and some great beers this year – looking forward to

• Sam Adams Brewery Blonde Ambition brewed at Shepherd Neame Brewery.
• Chocoholic from JW Lees
• Edinburgh Strong Ale from Caledonian
• Lumford from Thornbridge
• New York Wheat Porter from Titanic
• Wild hop ipa from Harviestoun

They also have a special new website for the occasion with interviews & blogs from brewers involved including Kelly Ryan from Thornbridge Brewery and James Watt from Brewdog.

Anyway here is the beer list if you are interested

Aurora Weissbier

5 | speciality

This new, naturally cloudy wheat beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is created using pale Pilsener malts and wheat, with hops exclusively from the Savinja Valley, producing a continental-style beer with a floral nose and herbal, spicy undertones.

Autumn Dawn

4.2 | best bitter

This light golden, seasonal ale is fairly lightly hopped, yet has a distinctive citric aroma and full-bodied flavour, leading to pronounced fruity hop notes.

Black Squirrel

3.9 | bitter

This rich, dark beer was last brewed in 1998 and makes its return especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It has a medium-bodied character, with hints of blackcurrant and chocolate in the flavour, leading through to a smooth, fruity finish.

Blonde Ambition

5.5 | strong bitter

Bert Boyce and Dan Melideo, from Sam Adams Brewery, have travelled to Shepherd Neame Brewery, in Kent, to create this beer especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. This very pale beer incorporates American intensity and English balance, showcasing East Kent-grown American Cascade hops – picked fresh from the field and in the brewery in a matter of hours. The result is an intense (yet soft) hop impression, moderate bitterness and fruity, complex character.

Bretwalda

4.1 | best bitter

This beer has previously been available only in bottles and makes its cask début exclusively at this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is deep red in colour, with a distinctive aroma and a flavour which is full of spicy and fruity characteristics.
Castagnale

4.4 | speciality

Leonardo di Vincenzo has travelled from Birra Del Borgo brewery to Everards brewery in Leicestershire to re-create this beer especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is deep amber in colour, with an aroma combining spicy malt with caramel and ripe-fruit notes, leading to a flavour of smooth malt, soft chestnuts and delicate honey hints, plus a long aftertaste of roasted chestnuts.

Chocoholic

3.6 | speciality

This new beer makes its début at this Wetherspoon real-ale festival and is a rich, dark brew, made with chocolate and a fine blend of malt and hops, to create a flavour which is definitely addictive.

Cinque Ale

4.1 | best bitter

This new beer’s name celebrates the historic Cinque Port Confederation, which dates from Norman times, and has been brewed especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is deep chestnut in colour and has been hopped, appropriately, five times throughout the brewing process, resulting in a distinctly hoppy nose and fruity palate throughout.

Coppernob

4.5 | best bitter

This beer has been brewed only twice before, solely for the brewery’s own pubs, so makes its national début at this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a rich copper-coloured brew and has a floral, spicy aroma, with a smooth, fruity character (balanced with malty notes) and a long, dry, satisfying finish.

Coriander 1879

4.9 | speciality

This new, mid brown beer is a modern take on an old recipe, brewed using coriander seeds to create an orange-like flavour, with a citrus aroma and bitter finish combining to create the ideal overall balance.
Coxswain’s Special

4 | best bitter

This occasionally brewed, mid-coloured and robust ale has a solid keel of Maris Otter malt and is fitted out with a sweet and toasty, lightly roasted grain flavour, before the powerful hop flavours take command to deliver the decisive action on the taste buds.

Dark

4.2 | best bitter

This beer, last brewed in 1990, is making its return especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a well-balanced dark beer with an enticing, spicy aroma and malty, slightly sweet, biscuity flavour, leading to a fruity aftertaste.

Double Espresso Wild Oat Stout

4.8 | speciality/stout

This stunning wild-oat stout is brewed with double-strength coffee beans, delivering the buzz of coffee and a toasted oatmeal flavour, while light hopping helps to balance and complement the smooth, silky character.

Dragon Boat

4.5 | best bitter

This new, amber-coloured beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. The floral aroma, with hints of fruit and caramel, leads to a delicate palate, with a subtle balance of refreshment and body, plus loads of hop character throughout.

Easy Weasel

4.5 | best bitter

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a golden-brown bitter, with a fruity, refreshing hop aroma and flavour, plus a refreshing, crisp character.
Edge

3.2 | mild

This rarely brewed, chestnut-brown mild has a beautiful plum fruit aroma which gives way to a wave of cascading malt, enveloping the palate throughout, with only the slightest hop background haze emerging late in the finish.

Edinburgh Strong Ale

6.4 | strong bitter

This beer was last available in cask in 1995 and has been brewed again exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a deep-amber-coloured Scotch ale, with a smooth, rounded body and delicious, deep malty and fruity flavours, leading to hints of liquorice toffee in the finish.

Ettaler Cask Lager

4.8 | speciality

Ettaler Monastery was founded in Bavaria over 400 years ago and produces several ales and lagers, including this beer – now brewed under licence by Cotleigh Brewery. Using Ettaler yeast, this is a Bavarian-style lager, tawny in colour, with a typical haze to the appearance, with hints of lemon on the nose, a sweet, hoppy taste on the palate and a smooth, creamy character.

Ghost Ship

4.5 | golden ale

This new beer is a very light, pale ale with a spicy aroma, imparting hints of lime and a slightly nutty sweetness in the flavour, leading to a pleasing, citrus finish.

Ginger Hare

3.9 | speciality

This new, speciality beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is created using traditionally fermented root ginger, with the malt and hops mingling to provide a full-bodied flavour and lingering spiciness.
Hairway To Steaven

5 | strong bitter

This is the 2010 remix of this brewery’s classic ‘Stairway To Heaven’, brewed especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. The hops used are evident in both the aroma and flavour, combining with top-quality malts to give an intense drinking experience which will change musical preferences.

Junibier

4.3 | speciality

Henk has over thirty years’ experience in brewing lager and working on research and innovation at the Heineken Brewery. He’s returned to the Caledonian Brewery, in Edinburgh, after his first visit in spring 2009, to brew this beer especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. This golden ale is an interpretation of a rustic, Finnish style, brewed since the Middle Ages and containing the traditional spice of fresh juniper berries. An enticing herbal aroma, with hints of pine, leads to a malty flavour, with the tanginess of the juniper balanced by a delicate bitterness and smooth, spicy finish.

King Goblin

6 | strong bitter

This new beer has previously been available in bottles only, so makes its cask début exclusively at this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. Allegedly only ever brewed under a full moon, this deep-brown-coloured beer has a full, rich (yet smooth) flavour and a long, satisfying finish.

Liberation Ale

4 | golden ale

This award-winning golden ale is brewed using a unique blend of English and Continental hops, giving a pronounced citrus character, balanced by the Maris Otter and crystal malt flavours, resulting in a well-balanced and easy-drinking character.

Lumford

3.9 | golden ale

This beer takes its name from Lumford Mill, an historic mill built, by the famous Richard Arkwright, on the site on which the brewery now stands. Described as a ‘New World pale ale’, this golden beer is brewed using a wealth of New World hops, giving aromas packed with tropical fruits and berries, a clean and crisp flavour, with a subtle malt character, and a smooth, dry finish.
New York Wheat Porter

4.2 | porter/speciality

This new, deep-ruby-coloured beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. The use of dark chocolate and black malts creates a powerful, dark flavour, while the generous quantities of wheat malt give a smooth, biscuity note. A gentle hop bitterness completes the rich, opulent character.

Once Bittern

4.1 | best bitter

This copper-coloured ale has a distinctive aroma of rich spice and citrus fruits, along with a palate which blends sweet malt, fruit and warm spice flavours, before developing into a pleasing, dry finish.

Pendlewitches Brew

5.1 | strong bitter

This beer featured in the first Wetherspoon real-ale festival back in October 1990, so we thought it a good idea to have it back to mark this 20th anniversary. This light golden, award-winning beer has a full, malty flavour which is soft and crisp, leading to a sweet, fruity aftertaste and soft, citrus nose.

Phoenix Rising

4.5 | golden ale

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival, with the help of Kay Masson, manager of The Job Bulman, in Gosforth, who helped to both formulate the recipe and brew the beer. It is a full-flavoured, golden ale with a light, floral aroma, easy-drinking character and slightly sweet aftertaste.

Pixley Black

6 | speciality/stout

This exciting, special brew is based on an original 1900 Wadworth double-stout recipe. It is a rich, dark beer, with a big chocolate aroma and flavour ‘up front’. The addition of pure blackcurrant juice, from the Pixley Black variety, imparts an intriguing fruit finish.
Purple Haze

4.4 | best bitter

This beer is named to celebrate the autumnal shade of the heather moorlands local to the brewery. Having last been brewed in 2002, it’s been brewed again especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is light amber in colour with an inviting floral aroma and a crisp, bitter finish.

Ram Rod

5 | strong bitter

This beer was last brewed in 2006 at the now-closed Young’s brewery and has been re-created exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a light-brown-coloured beer, packed full of fruity, vinous and hoppy flavours, with a full-bodied character which strikes an excellent balance between malt and hops.

Red Kite

4.3 | best bitter

This new, chestnut-red beer has a blackcurrant hedgerow aroma and a rich malt flavour, balanced by a bitter, hoppy undertone and pleasing, bitter finish.

Regency Best Bitter

4 | bitter

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a golden-coloured ale, created using Maris Otter and crystal malts, with the late addition of the whole-leaf Chinook hops making for a subtle grapefruit nose.

Ribble Rouser

4.2 | best bitter

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is an amber-coloured beer and uses a fine blend of English hops to create a hoppy aroma and character, complemented by a bitter, malty flavour, leading to a lasting, crisp, fruity aftertaste.
Rye Humour

4.5 | best bitter

This amber-coloured beer has been brewed only once before (in January 2009), so is making its return especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is brewed using a blend of American and English hops, with malted rye, to create a flavour which is predominantly dry, balanced by biscuity notes and an impressive spicy finish.

Scullion’s Single X Plain Porter

4.2 | porter

This deep black porter has an initial, full, dry flavour from the roasted barley used, complemented by a judicious blend of hops emerging to add depth and character to the flavour.

Signal Box Brown Ale

4.1 | best bitter

This beer, brewed earlier this year for the first time, has been brought back especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It has been brewed as a traditional brown ale and so has a full flavour which is predominantly malty in character, with a full body and sweeter palate, balanced by a very gentle bitterness and late hop aroma.

Snivelllers Corner

4.7 | strong bitter

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival and takes its unusual name from the area of a burial chamber. It is dark amber in colour, with spicy hop aromas and a growing bitterness, creating an ideal balance with the malt flavours and biscuity overtones.

Steenhuffel Blond

4.6 | best bitter

This new beer (just called ‘4.6’, on the continent) is a brew out of the norm for this celebrated brewery, not only at a lower-than-usual strength, but also using hops from New Zealand. It is light in colour, with sauvignon grape, grapefruit and pineapple notes in the aroma, plus a clean, dry bitterness in the flavour, completed with an exotic fruit aftertaste and the delicate notes of the palm
Stout

5 | stout

Chandraratne Talpe Liyanage has travelled from Lion Brewery to Marston’s, in Staffordshire, to re-create a lower-strength version of this world-famous beer, now usually called ‘Dark’. This very dark beer has a complex aroma of chocolate, coffee and liquorice, leading to a smooth, rich palate and full flavour, with hints of chocolate, coffee and roast malt, resulting in a silky character and long finish.

Straight Flush

4 | golden ale

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a pale beer with hints of citrus on the nose and a delicate fruit flavour, leading to a lingering, tangerine hop finish.

Strawberry Line

5 | speciality

This beer is named after the famous Strawberry Line railway which used to pass close by this brewery’s location. It is a golden bitter, with a hint of real Cheddar strawberries, complementing the fruity blackcurrant flavour from the English hops used.

Ucb

5.3 | strong bitter

This beer is enjoying its first return in cask form, having originally been brewed for the 1998 Beauty of Hops Awards, where it was voted the best beer to accompany a curry, hence the ‘ultimate curry beer’ acronym. The exotic blend of hop varieties delivers a rich, full-flavoured beer, with a delicious, clean, bitter finish to cut through and cleanse the palate.

Vanilla Orchid

4.8 | speciality

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is a mid-coloured beer with a strong vanilla aroma and smooth character, while the hops used balance the sweetness of the vanilla, leaving a rich, woody, creamy finish.
Voyager

4.4 | best bitter

This light brown ale has been brewed again especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival, having been available only once before, in summer 2009. It has citrus and floral aromas and a strong flavour, with a delicate finish, creating a superb, easy-drinking ale.

Wether’s Original

4.8 | strong bitter

This beer makes its national début at this festival, having previously been a special brew available only to those Wetherspoon pubs local to the brewery. It is golden amber in colour, with an initial hoppiness in the aroma, leading to a light, sweet maltiness, with a long, bitter finish.

Wheat Dreams

4.6 | speciality

This new clear wheat beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is golden in colour with a floral aroma, refreshing flavour and a pleasing lemon and grapefruit bitterness on the palate.

Wild Hop Ipa

4.9 | golden ale

This new beer has been brewed exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. It is an extremely well-hopped golden-coloured brew, creating a beer which has an enticing floral aroma which leads to a clean, refreshing character and a lingering, pleasingly dry aftertaste.

Winter Glory

4.3 | best bitter

This is a new seasonal brew for this year and is mid brown in colour, with an inviting aroma and distinctive and full-bodied, yet quaffable, flavour, leading to a lasting finish.

I said I wanted a nice Porter this festival and I was not dissapointed, Caledonian double dark oatmeal stout

Maybe I should have left that for the end as my pallet was just tasting wheaty lovelyness for all the other brews.

Then a sip of Simon’s – Purity -Pure Gold

This was lovely and a session beer from heaven… I will try and get a full pint later.

I then had a half (well it’s was lunchtime) of Pier Ale from RCH brewery, it was very drinkable at 5% but could not get the zesty lemony finish it’s supposed to have (must have been the Porter)

Other beers available but not tasted (did not go upstairs they may have had more)

had this before in Liverpool, a unique beer

Davenport’s Last minute Cask Lager – nice to see a Lager on…

Wadworths Fairport Five, It’s Simon home brewery and he said that’s it’s Wadworth as soon as he tasted it… so worth a visit.

I think the next few weeks will be very good! but may try their 3 1/3 of a pint tasters until I find my session beer for the festival which after one taste would be Purity-Pure Gold!!

Tomorrow I will venture to the other City Centre ‘Spoons pub the Prince of Wales, but with a riot squad in tow I hope it’s £1.69 a pint there as some reports (thanks @avw) that it’s £1.79 in some Welsh Pubs, whats your local ‘spoons doing the festival beers for?

Today is the start of their 30th anniversary Beer festival (28 Oct–15 Nov 2009) and around the country they will be having up to 50 beers on I hope some of my favourites are served in the pubs of Cardiff , I have had a few of these already this week (O’HANLON’S RED ALE and COTLEIGH LONG-EARED OWL) as they have put them on – but looking forward to the Porters.. I will tweet later #SpoonsBeer to say which ones my locals have, so if you are on twitter why not say which of the list below your local has as well..

01 ADNAMS PALE CHAMPION ALE 3.4% ABV
02 JW LEES SUPERNOVA 3.5% ABV
03 GALBRAITH’S MR G’S LUNCHEON ALE 3.7% ABV
04 CLARK’S RESURRECTION ALE 3.8% ABV
05 PURITY PURE GOLD 3.8% ABV
06 TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH ALES RED TORPEDO 3.8% ABV
07 EXMOOR ANTLER 4% ABV
08 NAMYSLOW ORIGINAL PLUM BEER 4% ABV
09 TOM WOOD’S SCARECROW 4.0% ABV
10 BATEMANS IRON LADY 4.1% ABV
11 GREENE KING BOSS HOGG BITTER 4.1% ABV
12 LANCASTER BLONDE 4.1% ABV
13 ST AUSTELL GEORGE’S TIPPLE 4.1% ABV
14 BUTCOMBE OLD VIC 4.2% ABV
15 COACH HOUSE OLD WHARF BITTER 4.2% ABV
16 HARVIESTOUN DEER HUNTER 4.2% ABV
17 THORNBRIDGE PIONEER 4.2% ABV
18 SPINNING DOG BRASS IN POCKET 4.3% ABV
19 YORK COPPERGATE 4.3% ABV
20 BANKS & TAYLOR BAT’S HAT 4.4% ABV
21 LEEDS GATHERING STORM 4.4% ABV
22 SHEPHERD NEAME DAMBUSTER 4.4% ABV
23 TOSHI’S AMBER ALE 4.4% ABV
24 WOODFORDE’S DRAGON HALL BITTER 4.4% ABV
25 DAVENPORTS LAST MINUTE 4.5% ABV
26 OAKLEAF OLD NAVY CUSTOM 4.5% ABV
27 O’HANLON’S RED ALE 4.5% ABV
28 THWAITES LIBERATION ALE 4.5% ABV
29 TITANIC ANOTHER PINT IN THE WALL 4.5% ABV
30 WELLS BANANA BREAD BEER 4.5% ABV
31 WOOD’S HOLY COW 4.5% ABV
32 CALEDONIAN DOUBLE DARK 4.6% ABV
33 EVAN EVANS SBA 4.6% ABV
34 HILDEN SCULLION’S IRISH ALE 4.6% ABV
35 JENNINGS COCKER HOOP 4.6% ABV
36 BATH HEFEWIEZEN HARED 4.7% ABV
37 MORDUE NEWCASTLE COFFEE PORTER 4.7% ABV
38 RINGWOOD FILLY DRIFT 4.7% ABV
39 BURTON BRIDGE DAFT BURTON ALE 4.8% ABV
40 MOORHOUSE’S BLACK PANTHER 4.8% ABV
41 PURKMISTR BOHEMIAN SCHWARZBIER 4.8% ABV
42 COTLEIGH LONG-EARED OWL 4.9% ABV
43 CAINS FINE RAISIN BEER 5.0% ABV
44 PORT GRUMPY’S PALE ALE 5.0% ABV
45 JRCH PIER ALE 5.0% ABV
46 WADWORTH FAIRPORT FIVE 5.0% ABV
47 WHITE HORSE VOLUND’S HAMMER 5.0% ABV
48 EVERARDS OLD ORIGINAL 5.2% ABV
49 DALESIDE MOROCCO ALE 5.5% ABV
50 ANKER GOUDEN CAROLUS AMBRIO 8.0% ABV

Breweries

1. Adnams Brewery, Suffolk | www.adnams.co.uk
2. JW Lees Brewery, Manchester | www.jwlees.co.uk
3. Galbraith’s Brewery, New Zealand | www.alehouse.co.nz
4. Clark’s Brewery, West Yorkshire | www.hbclark.co.uk
5. Purity Brewery, Warwickshire | www.puritybrewing.com
6. Traditional Scottish Ales, Stirlingshire | www.traditionalscottishales.co.uk
7. Exmoor Ales, Wiveliscombe, Somerset | www.exmoorales.co.uk
8. Browar Namyslow, Poland | www.namyslow.com.pl
9. Highwood Brewery, Lincolnshire | www.tom-wood.com
10. Batemans Brewery, Lincolnshire | www.bateman.co.uk
11. Greene King Brewery, Suffolk | www.greeneking.co.uk
12. Lancaster Brewery, Lancashire | www.lancasterbrewery.co.uk
13. St Austell Brewery, Cornwall | www.staustellbrewery.co.uk
14. Butcombe Brewery, Somerset | www.butcombe.com
15. Coach House Brewery, Cheshire | www.coach-house-brewing.co.uk
16. Harviestoun Brewery, Clackmannanshire | www.harviestoun.com
17. Thornbridge Brewery, Derbyshire | www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk
18. Spinning Dog Brewery, Herefordshire | www.spinningdogbrewery.co.uk
19. York Brewery, Yorkshire | www.york-brewery.co.uk
20. B & T Brewery, Bedfordshire | www.banksandtaylor.com
21. Leeds Brewery, West Yorkshire | www.leedsbrewery.co.uk
22. Shepherd Neame Brewery, Kent | www.shepherd-neame.co.uk
23. Toshi Ishii, Japan | no Web site at present
24. Woodforde’s Brewery, Norfolk | www.woodfordes.co.uk
25. Highgate Brewery, West Midlands | www.highgatebrewery.com
26. Oakleaf Brewery, Hampshire | www.oakleafbrewing.co.uk
27. O’Hanlon’s Brewery, Devon | www.ohanlonsbeer.com
28. Thwaites Brewery, Lancashire | www.thwaites.co.uk
29. Titanic Brewery, Staffordshire | www.titanicbrewery.co.uk
30. Wells & Young’s Brewery, Bedfordshire | www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk
31. Wood Brewery, Shropshire | www.woodbrewery.co.uk
32. Caledonian Brewery, Edinburgh | www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk
33. Evan Evans Brewery, Carmarthenshire | www.evan-evans.com
34. Hilden Brewery, County Antrim | www.hildenbrewery.co.uk
35. Jennings Brewery, Cumbria | www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk
36. Bath Ales, Bristol | www.bathales.com
37. Mordue Brewery, Tyne and Wear | www.morduebrewery.com
38. Ringwood Brewery, Hampshire | www.ringwoodbrewery.co.uk
39. Burton Bridge Brewery, Staffordshire | www.burtonbridgebrewery.co.uk
40. Moorhouse’s Brewery, Lancashire | www.moorhouses.co.uk
41. Purkmistr Brewery, Czech Republic | www.purkmistr.cz
42. Cotleigh Brewery, Somerset | www.cotleighbrewery.com
43. Cains Brewery, Merseyside | www.cainsbeers.com
44. Port Brewery, California | www.portbrewing.com
45. RCH Brewery, Somerset | www.rchbrewery.com
46. Wadworth Brewery, Wiltshire | www.wadworth.co.uk
47. White Horse Brewery, Oxfordshire | www.whitehorsebrewery.com
48. Everards Brewery, Leicestershire | www.everards.co.uk
49. Daleside Brewery, North Yorkshire | www.dalesidebrewery.com
50. Brouwerij Het Anker, Belgium | www.hetanker.be

You can download the tasthing notes from the ‘spoons website (PDF here)

I narrowed it down to two.. both Bullmastiff Beers

and the Welsh Black won – I may pop back for the Slobberchops later but that Rymney Dark is also a fav, which was on the other bar…