Real Ale & Cider Festivals

Our Easter Real Ale and Cider Festival will be held on Good Friday 18th April, Saturday 19th April, Easter Sunday 20th April and Easter Monday 21st April 2025.

Over 30 stunning real ales and ciders, craft keg, cans and bottles.

Free entry for Club/CAMRA members, else £1.00/day entry on the door.

  • Preview Thursday 17th Apr 6pm – 11pm (Club and CAMRA members only)
  • Friday 18th Apr 12pm – 11pm
  • Saturday 19th Apr 12pm – 11pm
  • Sunday 20th Apr 12pm – 5pm
  • Monday 21st Apr 12pm – 10pm

Card payments only.

Beer, Cider & Perry List

Pale Beers [Main Bar]:

  • Oakham Cohort 4.0% UK experimental variety CF247 finds an able accomplice in USA big hitter Amarillo to create this exciting new pale ale. Expect citrus orange, tropical fruit and red berry flavours plus some floral notes.
  • Stay Wild Matu 4.2% A pale refreshing beer with a soft malt backbone and a more finessed hop character than a typical American IPA. Unlike American hops with their big resin and pine-like flavours, this 100% New Zealand hopped brew has a delicate passionfruit, lime and orange flavours.
  • Iron Pier Chinook 4.2% Super single hop Chinook pale ale. Brewed with Chinook hops from start to finish giving juicy citrus fruit and piney aroma and flavour.
  • Front Row Tackle School 4.2% American Pale Ale made with Mosaic and Citra hops.
  • Canterbury Spring Gold 4.3% Super hoppy, super smooth with a long dry finish and intense fruity aromas. Ernest and Citra hops give tropical fruit notes with a zing!
  • Kent Prohibition 4.8% A citrusy pale ale highly hopped with some of the latest US hop varieties.

Other Beers [Main Bar]:

  • Siren Memento 3.8% A wholesome best bitter designed to be true to this iconic beer style, with only a few respectful tweaks. Expect biscuit and caramel flavours from our malts, balanced by English hops with grassy, herbal and citrus notes and refreshing bitterness.
  • Goachers Best Dark 4.1% A rich complex full-bodied ale with high proportions of crystal malt and East Kent Golding hops.
  • Mutineers Quad 7.9% Rich dark Belgian beer, lots of stone fruit flavours, perfect for cold nights!

Brown/Amber Beers [Festival Bar]:

  • Nightjar But Not As We Know It 4.0% Next generation bitter. Lovely deep amber in colour and giving fruit notes with a slight nuttiness on the palette. Brewed with English Hops, Fuggles for the Bittering and Goldings for the aroma.
  • Tonbridge Country Best 4.0% Best bitter brewed using 100% Kentish hops from farms we know and work with. Previously known as Countryman.
  • New River Riverbed Red 4.2% A full-flavoured amber ale made with speciality malts from Germany, balanced by a rich mix of international hops.
  • Frome The Usual 4.4% An amber ale, smooth and malty with hints of stone fruit.
  • Tombstone Lone Rider 4.8% A deep ruby ale, smooth, malty with a hint of caramel.

Dark Beers [Festival Bar]:

  • Leigh On Sea McFadden Mild 3.8%
    A traditional and refreshing dark mild ale, subtly malted and lightly hopped.
  • Three Acre Ruby Porter 4.2% Our award winning Ruby Porter is a smooth and sessionable beer with complex, perfectly balanced coffee and cocoa flavours, finished with a well-rounded bitterness from quality UK-grown hops.
  • Brockley Garage Porter 4.3% Dark brown in colour, medium body, light roasty character and bitterness, with a smooth silky mouthfeel. Powerful notes of dark chocolate throughout.
  • Beerblefish Dodos & Dragons Stout 4.7% A coffee oatmeal stout. This velvety blend of rich roasted coffee notes and a balanced malty profile makes for a delicious ale.
  • Twickenham Honey Dark Mild 4.8% Brewed with dark malts and second fermented with honey, this strong dark beer has chocolate, coffee, caramel and (of course) honey featuring in its aroma and flavour.
  • Magpie One For Sorrow Stout 4.8% Silky smooth oatmeal stout with rich, roast, bonfire toffee, raisin and coffee flavours.
  • Leatherbritches Berry Dangerous Porter 5.2% Dark fruity porter with raspberries and other red berries to give a luscious winter warming feel.

Keg Beers [Main Bar]:

  • Tonbridge Horsa 4.1% Kent hopped lager. Caramel blonde in colour with light toffee malt flavours and a berry and citrus fruit hop finish.
  • Tonbridge American Pale 5% Full bodied rich malty American pale ale brewed with four American hops providing a distinct refreshing citrus finish.

Ciders & Perry [Main Bar]:

  • Turners Apple Pie 4.0% Flavoured with spices and sweetened with fresh apple juice.
  • Turners Rhubarb 4.0% Blended with fresh-pressed Kentish rhubarb this is a very refreshing cider.
  • Turners Medium 5.0% Still, cloudy, naturally sweetened with fresh-pressed apple juice, giving a full, fruit flavour. Unfiltered.
  • Biddenden Kentish Kiss 5.0% Created from apples with an aesthetically pleasing golden yellow skin with a slight red blush and rosy coloured flesh, giving a Provence rosé colour.
  • Turners Elderflower 5.5% Still, fruity and floral, naturally sweetened with
    elderflower syrup. Unfiltered.
  • Turners Pear 5.5% Made with a careful blend of fresh juice of Conference and Comice Pears with a dash of Bramley Apple Cider.
  • Turners Medium Dry 6.5% Still, crisp and fruity cider with a balance of acidity and sweetness.
  • Turners Dry 7.0% Still, light, crisp cider with high acidity and low sweetness. Unfiltered and unpasteurised.
  • Broadoak Perry 7.5% Sweet but incredibly refreshing with a glorious fresh tasting pear flavour and a wonderful pear aroma.
  • Biddenden Medium 8.0% Medium, wine style cider made from Kent grown culinary and dessert apples. Our famous Strong Kentish cider is still and smooth with a refreshing apple taste.
  • Turners Single Variety Russet 8.0% Still, big and full flavoured. Medium-dry.

Click Here for details of our previous Real Ale & Cider festivals.