Please find the Beer and Cider list for Merton Beer Festival, there are still a number of ciders/perries to be finalised and there are some additional details outstanding on a least one of the beers.
Where I’ve indicated a beer is new, I suppose what I am saying is that it is either a brand new beer, or new to this site, of course there may be one or two that have cropped up elsewhere unbeknown to me.
S/V after the ciders/perries means that this is a single varietal.
1. Amber Brewery - Hop Devil IPA - 4.80% - IPA NEW
2. Anglo Dutch - Spikes on t’Way - 4.20% - Golden
3. Bazens - Knoll Street Porter 5.30% - Porter
4. Brunswick Brewery - Midnight Express - 3.90% - Mild
5. Burton Bridge - Drovers Dynamo - 4.50% - Bitter
6. Dark Star Brewery - Sussex Extra Stout - 4.50% - Stout
7. Goose Eye - Chinook Blonde - 4.20% - Golden
8. Green Tye Brewery - Hertfordshire Hedgehog - 4.00% - Bitter
9. Greenjack Brewery - Trawler Boys - 4.60% - Bitter
10. Hopshackle - Double Momentum - 7.00% - English Strong Ale
11. Hornbeam - Bitter - 3.80% - Bitter
12. Houston - Black & Tan - 4.20% - Porter
13. Julian Church Brewing Co - Midnight Mass 4.20% Stout
14. Leadmill/Bottlebrook - (organised by dad) - 6.50% - NEW
15. Leeds Brewery - Yorker - 4.00% - Bitter
16. Millstone - Tiger Rut - 4.00% - Golden
17. Oakham -X-Terminator - 7.80% - DIPA
18. Old Mill - Bitter - 3.90% - Bitter
19. Phoenix - Monkeytown Mild - 3.90% - Mild
20. Purity - Mad Goose - 5.00% - ESB
21. Red Squirrel Brewery - White Mountain American IPA - 5.40% - IPA NEW
22. South Hams - Eddystone - 4.80% - Bitter
23. Spire Brewery - 70/- - 3.70% - NEW
24. Thornbridge Hall - Epic Halcyon - 7.70% - IPA
25. Thornbridge Hall - Craven Silk - 4.00% - Golden - NEW
26. Thornbridge Hall - Seaforth 5.90% - IPA - NEW
27. Tollgate Brewery - Tollgate Mild - 4.20% - Mild - NEW
28. Vale Brewery - Nixey’s Mill 4.10% - Bitter - NEW
29. Vale Brewery - Full Throttle - 4.30% - Golden - NEW
30. Yeovil - BST - 4.50% - Golden - NEW
Ciders/Perries
31. Rockingham Forest - Medium Dry Cider - 6.40% - NEW
32. Rockingham Forest - Sulgrave Orchard Cider - 6.40%
33. Hecks - Port Wine of Glastonbury Cider - 5% - S/V
34. Gwatkin - Yarlington Mill Perry - 7.50% - S/V
35. Broadoak - Moonshine Sweet Cider - 7.50% - S/V
36. Olivers - Rock Perry - 5.90% - S/V
37. Olivers - Herefordshire Vintage Med/Dry Cider - 7.50%
38. Gwatkins - Blakeney Red Perry - 7.50% - S/V
Eight more Ciders/Perries TBA
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Originally posted by PJClarke
When is it etc?
same weekend at RBESG :-(
Its on the events page
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Originally posted by cgarvieuk
Originally posted by PJClarke
When is it etc?
same weekend at RBESG :-(
Its on the events page
Cheers Craig.
Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July
The annoying thing is that I cannot go back into my original post and edit it to add the dates, really frustrating that!
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As always mate, your cask selections are gems through and through! That would be about 29 new rates and 4 new breweries for me. (Not counting the ciders.) I am sad indeed to be missing two of my favorite drinking days in the whole calender. I’ll have to plan a UK visit to coincide with the next one. |
That is a great list Fin, good luck with the fest. It’s just that RBESG was already booked. |
Splendid list. Very excited. May only drink 4 beers. Bet no one can guess which ones |
Thanks for the kind words. 
Bit of a bugger that we clash with RBESG coz’I would have loved to have gone to that myself, but we set the date a year ago and have to be careful not to clash with the other local festivals around here. I look forward to seeing Mark and anyone else who can make it, but sad that Casey and Glen won’t be here this time. |
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An excellent selection Fin, of course you know that whichever was the one that Loz chose will be the Beer of the Festival  |
Originally posted by imdownthepub
An excellent selection Fin, of course you know that whichever was the one that Loz chose will be the Beer of the Festival
She does seem to have an uncanny knack for that doesn’t she? |
Beer Update
I actually have some details on beer No: 14 on the list. These notes are from my dad’s conversation with Richard the brewer yesterday. I understand that this beer will only be available at Derby and Merton Summer Beer Fests’
Bottlebrook - Pioneer - 6.5% - Pale Blonde - Using mostly Pioneer Hops this beer is Citrussy with grapefruit and also has hints of honeydew melon.
Also Amber Brewery - Hop Devil IPA is 5% not 4.8%
Fin
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