Wheatsheaf Beer and Music Festival
Hi everybody and welcome to our 7th annual Spring Beer & Music Festival. As usual we have lined up a great selection of live music, beer, cider and perry which we hope you enjoy, and to help soak it all up there will be a virtually non-stop barbecue with a hogroast on the Sunday evening.
Last year we improved things by having a second ladies loo installed and increasing the amount of guests cider and perry, but we still ran into problems in the main bar on the Sunday evening especially, which came down to space and numbers of people, so, this year we have arranged a second bar to be set up under the outside smoking shelter (garden side) on Sunday night, which will sell Harveys Best, Fosters lager, bottles of wine and other bottled beers. Also, I’m afraid we will have to resort to plastic glasses on Sunday night, because we just can’t cope with the demand otherwise, and also the glasswasher can’t keep up either.
Anyway, we’re all going to have a fantastic time whatever, so let’s keep our fingers crossed for some decent weather. Here below are the details of the live music and the guest beer list
LIVE MUSIC
| Saturday 29th May | 9.00pm | The Outfit |
| Sunday 30th May | 3.00pm |
John McDevitt The Big Kahuna |
| Monday 31st May | 2.30pm | John Paul Miller |
GUEST BEERS
Just to tempt your taste buds, here is the guest beer list along with some tasting notes for the upcoming beer festival. As usual there is a smattering of great award winning beers from the last Great British Beer Festival, and the three top beers as voted by you at our Spring festival last year reappear as promised. As always the list represents every major recognised style of beer, with the currently most fashionable golden ales, then traditional bitters, milds, stouts and porters, ranging in strength this year from 3.6% to 6.0% ABV, and which is drawn largely from lesser known micro and craft brewers.
In addition to these beers there will of course be a complete range of Harveys brews, and another dozen or so assorted ciders and perry’s which we will select in the next week or two
Weaker beers to 4.1%
Wadworth Henry’s IPA (3.6%)
Light and refreshing traditional brown beer, well balanced flavours combine with gentle malt and hoppiness with malt dominating and a long aftertaste.
Kelburn Goldihops (3.8%)
Golden and hoppy with a clean taste on the palate and long aftertaste
Humpty Dumpty Little Sharpie (3.8%)
GBBF 3rd place Bitter. A golden beer with a delicate hoppy aroma preceding a sweet, hoppy, lager like flavour with a bitter finish.
H B Clarks Clint Eastwood (3.8%)
Dark, rich and complex with roast barley and a hint of chocolate sweetness
Southport Golden Sands (4.0%)
GBBF 1st place Best Bitter. A golden triple hopped bitter with a citrus flavour
Houston Blonde Bombshell (4.0%)
A smooth easy drinking golden ale with a fresh hop aroma, well rounded maltiness and delicate fruit aftertaste
Joblings Swinging Gibbet (4.1%)
A copper coloured evenly balanced bitter beer, with good hop aroma and fruity finish
Medium beers 4.2 - 4.9%
Allendale Curlews Return (4.2%)
A classic copper coloured beer with moderate bitterness, hoppy aroma and hint of citrus from a combination of target, goldings and cascade hops.
Williams Birds & Bees (4.3%)
A fruity golden ale, very refreshing with lovely hop and elderflower aromas
Rudgate Ruby Mild (4.4%)
GBBF 1st place Mild and Champion Beer of Britain. A nutty rich ruby beer
Elland Nettlethrasher (4.4%)
A traditional deep copper coloured beer brewed with six varieties of malt and a combination of English and American hops making this a complex mouthful!
Wem Scorpio Porter (4.5%)
WBF 3rd place 2009. Dark ruby red beer with a complex palate introducing hints of coffee and chocolate to contrast and complement the background hoppiness.
Anglo Dutch Ghost on the Rim (4.5%)
A pale full bodied bitter with a powerful citrus finish
O’Hanlons Red Ale (4.5%)
A unique beer inspired by old Irish beers that would have been kilned over peat. Cara and crystal malts provide a fruity character
Jarrow McConnells Irish Stout (4.6%)
WBF 2nd place 2009. A rich creamy stout with a long lingering liquorice and chocolate finish
Dark Star American Pale (4.7)
GBBF 1st place Golden Ales. An American yeast strain together with chinook and centennial hops produce this golden beer. Maris otter malt provides the dryness to complement the crisp taste and full aroma of the hops.
Titanic White Star (4.8%)
A light, refreshing and distictively hoppy beer, easy to drink despite it’s strength
York Brewery Pale Ale (4.8%)
A golden beer with a clean palate and a hint of fruit, a rich hop aroma dominates a long lingering finish
Stronger beers 5.0% +
Nethergate Old Growler (5.0%)
A complex and satisfying porter, smooth, distinctive and powerfully hoppy in the finish
Skinners Cornish Blonde (5.0%)
A golden beer with high quality wheat malt, British and American hops combining to give a very easy drink with a lovely citrus finish
Brentwood Lumberjack (5.2%)
Strong, sweetish full bodied bitter using fuggles and goldings hops which give a rounded hoppy finish
Castle Rock Screech Owl (5.5%)
A strong well hopped IPA brewed to export strength
Frog Island Croak & Stagger (5.6%)
A dark full flavoured beer with roasted malt and chocolate notes, brewed with target and cascade hops.
Spectrum Old Stoatwobbler (6.0%)
WBF 1st place 2009. A dark comples beer with aromas of chocolate, cherry, raisin and banana alongside the hops and malt. Delicious.