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Message wheresthepath beers 3454 º places 284 º 06:20 Mon 2/9/2015 ...starts March 13th. Found this showing the international guest brewers’ beers, plus a few others. I’m a little underwhelmed by it: http://cask-marque.co.uk/cask-matters/wetherspoons-spring-festival-focuses-british-hops/ Has anyone got a full beer list yet in case? Cheers Anth
Message harrisoni P beers 25368 º places 68 º 07:00 Mon 2/9/2015 There was a full list on Scoopgen but I can’t find it again
Message leaparsons beers 12356 º places 11 º 07:23 Mon 2/9/2015 I downloaded the list at the time: Acorn Sovereign IPA 5.0% Adnams Jester 4.8% B & T Bedfordshire Clanger 3.8% Banks Archer 4.0% Barley Brown’s ESA 5.1% brewed Marstons Batemans Lincolnshire Red 5.0% Bath Cobblestone 3.8% Black Sheep Monty Python’s Holy Grail 4.0% Bodebrown Wee Heavy 6.0% brewed Caledonian Brains Pocket full of Rye 4.3% Caledonian Merman XXX 4.8% Camerons Vermillion 5.0% Celt Experience A False Dawn 4.4% Cerveceria Fort English Style IPA 5.8 brewed Shepherd Neame Daleside New Dawn 4.6% Devil’s Backbone Spider Bite 4.0% brewed Banks Dungarvan O’Dwyers Irish Stout 4.5% brewed Wadworth Elgoods Spring Challenge 3.7% Everards Ascalon 4.0% GK Morland Tanners Jack Golden Road California Breakfast Ale 4.8% brewed Adnams Hanlon’s New Moon 4.4% Hawkshead Jester 3.7% Hilden Nansen Street 4.8% Hook Norton Inspired 4.7% Hydes Paddock Wood 4.2% Inveralmond Rascal London Porter 5.6% Jennings Golden Host 4.2% Lancaster Albion Connection 4.5% Lighthouse Shipwreck IPA 6.5^ brewed Wychwood Mauldons Bronze Adder 4.1% Mountain Goat Hightail Ale 4.5% brewed Hook Norton Nottingham Salsa 4.5% Orkney Puffin Ale 4,5% Otter Otters Progress 4.4% Phoenix Play it again Same 4.2% Purity Rivet 4.0% RCH Boadicea 5.3% Robinsons Mojo 3.7% Rudgate Brew No 11 Milk Stout 4.2% Salopian Indigenous 5.3% Shepherd Neame Boadicea IPA 5.0% Shongweni Durban Pale Ale 5.7% brewed Batemans Titanic Wit Stout 5.0% Townshend JCIPA 5.5% brewed Everards Vale SPS 5.0% Wadworth Ye Olde Admiral 5.0% Weltons Churchillian Stout 6.6% Wharfebank Othelia Gold 4.5% Wolf Lazy Dog 4.7%
Message jjsint P beers 7751 º places 1335 º 07:37 Mon 2/9/2015 Jennings has a 4.2% golden beer out. I can just taste it now: amazing. And Brains is doing what looks like a rye beer. No way that could possibly go wrong. Yup. This is set to be the best Spoons festival ever.

Message imdownthepub P beers 26151 º places 2115 º 08:38 Mon 2/9/2015 Got a bit bored going through them. Not sure this Festival format works for them any more. The recent collaborations with overseas Brewers has been much better, spreading them out a little more.
Message wigglyworm99 beers 2091 º places 53 º 08:44 Mon 2/9/2015 They should do themed festivals, instead of random selections with some international stuff thrown in. Themes like German beer, mild or dark beer as suggestions of the top of my head. Or it covers March 17th, so why not showcase some interesting cask stuff that is starting to come from Ireland now? The brewers used to include Brewdog, Thornbridge and Oakham. Where are the innovative brewers on the list now? I’m sure you used to get more variety among the microbreweries, but now it’s always the same mediocre names crop up: Wolf, B&T, Vale etc
Message Beersiveknown P beers 5380 º places 180 º 09:45 Mon 2/9/2015 not all bad, celt experience, adnams, hawkshead, salopian.New NI beer from Hilden, new irish beer from dungarvan. rudgate milk stout could be good
Message wheresthepath beers 3454 º places 284 º 15:58 Mon 2/9/2015 Thanks for the list. Originally posted by dynamiteninja They should do themed festivals, instead of random selections with some international stuff thrown in. Theme of this one is English hops, apparently.

Message harrisoni P beers 25368 º places 68 º 00:53 Tue 2/10/2015 Over 40 rates for me from easily accessible pubs. Sounds good to me
Message BeerViking beers 9209 º places 134 º 16:27 Wed 2/11/2015 Originally posted by dynamiteninja They should do themed festivals, instead of random selections with some international stuff thrown in. Themes like German beer, mild or dark beer as suggestions of the top of my head. Or it covers March 17th, so why not showcase some interesting cask stuff that is starting to come from Ireland now? Out of curiosity I mentioned the theme idea to Dave Aucutt - he’s the man who orders the beer for these festivals. He made it pretty clear that for a host like JDW it would not work, as they have to have something to appeal to as broad a spread of customers as possible (as you’d expect). We also talked about other potential festival themes, such as Halloween. Again, his view is it’s much more important to have a non-theme festival with good beers in their own right, instead of average ones with themed names.
Message BeerViking beers 9209 º places 134 º 16:30 Wed 2/11/2015 Originally posted by wheresthepath Thanks for the list. Originally posted by dynamiteninja They should do themed festivals, instead of random selections with some international stuff thrown in. Theme of this one is English hops, apparently. Technically it’s British hops, but in practice I don’t think they managed to find any from Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Apparently there’s 27 different hop varieties being grown in this country, and the festival beers include 24 of them - the other three are experimental, heritage or whatever, and aren’t grown in sufficient quantity.