The following is the list of beers that are anticipated to be available in the 2015 festival. A PDF of the list can be downloaded here: 2015 Beer List
Please note: this list is not final and is subject to change.
| Beer Name | Brewery | % ABV | Style | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Ale | 360 Brewing Company (East Sussex) | 4.9 | Pale | Full of hops from the USA and Australia. This is a chestnut-coloured, modern pale ale with fruit and floral flavours and crisp bitterness. |
| West Coast | 360 Brewing Company (East Sussex) | 5.0 | IPA | Using solely American hops, a contemporary Pale Ale, heavily hopped to produce intense tropical fruit flavours and a long bitter finish. |
| Cosmic | Blackhole Brewery (Staffordshire) | 4.2 | Amber | Cosmic has an amber glow with an initial malt aroma. The complex balance of malt and English hops give lingering tastes of nuts, fruit and a dry hoppy bitterness. |
| Milky Way | Blackhole Brewery (Staffordshire) | 6.0 | Wheat | A pale wheat beer. Honey and banana nose advises the sweet taste but not the sweet, dry spicy finish from this wheat beer. |
| Tunnel Vision | Box Steam Brewery (Wiltshire) | 4.2 | Amber | Well rounded traditional bitter beer. Clean tasting with a slight bitterness on the palate. Try it, you won’t be disappointed. |
| Ballot Box | Box Steam Brewery (Wiltshire) | 4.2 | Golden | This is a new beer from Box Steam Brewery, so new that they haven’t provided a description and we haven’t had the chance to taste it. But based upon their other beers I’m sure it’ll be suitably tasty! |
| Bleddyn | The Celt Experience (Caerphilly) | 5.6 | IPA | A commanding IPA balancing bitterness, sweetness and a grapefruit finish. An IPA to preside with you and your friends at the dinner table. King Bleddyn, most merciful of all welsh kings lived and ruled until 1075 and the number of our original gravity. |
| Silures | The Celt Experience (Caerphilly) | 4.6 | Pale | Powerfully hopped with sweet malt and a depth of tropical fruit. Tribal vistas where all is conquered. Silures were a powerful Celtic tribe from today’s South Wales stood tall against Roman invasion. |
| Dark Age | The Celt Experience (Caerphilly) | 4.0 | Mild | Elegant smooth chocolate and a caramel body with a spice finish. Inspired by the tranquility of the myths of Avalon. |
| Southern Bitter | Cottage Brewery (Somerset) | 3.7 | Copper | This award winning session bitter is full bodied with a distinctive hop aroma and finish. Light copper in colour and easy drinking. Named after the Southern Railway and was the Champion Standard Bitter at the 13th SIBA Maltings Beer Festival. |
| Gold Rush | Cottage Brewery (Somerset) | 5.0 | Golden | Supreme Champion Beer at the 13th SIBA Maltings Beer Festival. A deep golden premium ale. Hopped with Cascade. Goldrush is a well balanced ale. The aromas are distinctive and vibrant. A stunning ale. |
| Blackwater Mild | Crouch Vale Brewery (Essex) | 3.7 | Mild | Smooth and malty dark mild for drinking in quantity! Fruity and full. |
| Brewers Gold | Crouch Vale Brewery (Essex) | 4.0 | Golden | Supreme Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival 2005 AND 2006, this is a pale, refreshing and hoppy beer with gorgeous aromas of tropical fruits. |
| Amarillo | Crouch Vale Brewery (Esssex) | 5.0 | Golden | A superb premium golden ale with wonderful aroma and a lasting spicy flavour. |
| Flashmans Clout | Dorset Brewing Company (Dorset) | 4.5 | Copper | Richly flavoured copper ale with plum and cinder toffee notes & a refreshing citrus finish. |
| Durdle Door | Dorset Brewing Company (Dorset) | 5.0 | Copper | Rusty full bodied ale with a caramel flavour and hints of marmalade on the nose. |
| Stormstay | Hanlons (Devon) | 5.0 | Amber | A strong amber ale, surprisingly smooth with hints of toffee and citrus. |
| Bitter & Twisted | Harviestoun (Clackmannanshire) | 4.2 | Golden | Having won Supreme Champion Beer of Britain & the World’s Best Ale, this is a firm favourite all over the place. Complex, rounded, sweet and dry, a superbly-balanced beer. It has a malty-sweet aroma with a floral, fruity hoppiness and a zingy, zesty flavour. |
| Black Cat | Moorhouses Brewery (Lancashire) | 3.4 | Ruby | Dark, refreshing beer with a distinct chocolate malt flavour and smooth hoppy finish. |
| Pride of Pendle | Moorhouses Brewery (Lancashire) | 4.1 | Golden | An exceptionally fine balance of malt and hops give the beer a long dry and extremely satisfying taste. |
| Blonde | Moorhouses Brewery (Lancashire) | 4.5 | Blonde | Moorhouse’s first ever Blond Ale. This beer is as light as you can get, with a zesty fruit taste and hint of gooseberry on the nose. |
| 30.4 | RCH Brewery (Somerset) | 4.5 | Golden | A golden bitter with floral citric hop aroma. It has a hoppy predominate taste which is slightly sweet and fruity and leaves you wanting more. |
| East Street Cream | RCH Brewery (Somerset) | 5.0 | Chestnut | First brewed to celebrate the 500th guest beer at the Dartmouth Inn, Newton Abbot, and was named by a customer in a competition. It went down so well that it has become a regular beer. This enigmatic full bodied beer with malty hoppy fruit bitter with a sweet taste which all vie for dominance in this complex and well crafted premium chestnut coloured ale. |
| Session Beer | Spitting Feathers (Cheshire) | 3.6 | Golden | A golden session bitter. Traditional English malts and hops combine to make this a well balanced and satisfying beer. |
| Special Ale | Spitting Feathers (Cheshire) | 4.2 | Chestnut | A malty, chestnut brown beer. The full malt taste balances well with hop bitterness and fruit flavours. |
| Old Wavertonian | Spitting Feathers (Cheshire) | 4.4 | Stout | A robust dark stout. Roast barley, chocolate and coffee flavours give a very full body and a smooth lingering finish. |
| Barbury Castle | Three Castles Brewery (Wiltshire) | 3.9 | Blond | Balanced, easy drinking pale ale with a wonderful aroma and a hoppy finish. |
| Heritage Ale | Three Castles Brewery (Wiltshire) | 4.2 | Chestnut | This is a smooth chestnut bitter, with a deeply satisfying malty base. Perfect for drinking in a refreshing pint after a hard day’s work. |
| Corn Dolly | Three Castles Brewery (Wiltshire) | 4.7 | Pale | Honey Coloured, easy drinking. Slightly Floral, delicate aroma with a unique blend of lager & malt hops. |
| Midnight Sun | Williams Bros Brewing (Clackmannanshire) | 5.6 | Porter | Our spiced porter, pours as black as the Midnight Sun and is created from a blend of malted barley, oats, roast barley, chocolate malt then balanced with a generous helping of hops. An after bite of fresh root ginger elevates this ale to another level. The flavours are as paradoxical as the name. |
| Fraoch | Williams Bros Brewing (Clackmannanshire) | 5.0 | Golden | The Original Craft Beer; brewed in Scotland since 2000 B.C. The Brotherhood have been guardians of the ancient Gaelic recipe for "leann fraoich" (heather ale) since 1988 and are proud to be the only brewery still producing this unique style of beer and distributing it world wide. A light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt character, and a spicy herbal finish - This beer allows you to literally pour 4000 years of Scottish history into a glass. |