Our Autumn Real Ale and Cider Festival will be held on Friday 11th October, Saturday 12th October and Sunday 13th October 2024.
35+ stunning real ales and ciders, craft keg, cans and bottles.
Free entry for Club/CAMRA members, else £1.00/day entry on the door.
Card payments only.
- Preview Thursday 10th Oct 6pm – 11pm (Club and CAMRA members only)
- Friday 11th Oct 12pm – 11pm
- Saturday 12th Oct 12pm – 11pm
- Sunday 13th Oct 12pm – 5pm
Beer, Cider & Perry List
Pale Beers [Main Bar]:
- Goachers Green Hop 3.9% Pale ale brewed using fresh Kentish green hops.
- Kent Brewery Quiet American 4.2% A light and fresh American Pale Ale that is both floral and citrusy with a hint of grapefruit.
- Tonbridge New Zealand Pale 4.5% New Zealand hopped pale ale brewed with Nelson Sauvin and Motueka hops. Bready, grainy and mild toffee malt flavours with tropical fruit, gooseberry and zingy citrus hop flavours and aromas.
- Vale Of Glamorgan Maverick 4.5% Rich, golden style session American IPA with heavy hopping of Amarillo and Simcoe for a BIG citrus aroma.
- New River Great Amwell Pale 4.6% Pale gold American pale ale with resinous bitterness and notable floral aromas, hints of nectarine; subtle sweet maltiness.
- Musket Gracious English IPA 5.3% A traditional IPA brewed exclusively with English Malts and Kentish Bramling Cross hops. Pale in colour, it has a dry finish with a lingering bitterness.
Other Beers [Main Bar]:
- Triple FFF Alton’s Pride 3.8% A traditional English bitter brewed using water from the Hampshire chalk hills. Full and clean tasting, initially malty then tangerine fruit and resinous hop build to a quenching bitter finish.
- Milestone Raspberry Wheat Beer 5.6% A Continental style wheat beer infused with fresh, wild raspberries producing a refreshing fruit beer.
Brown/Amber Beers [Festival Bar]:
- Crouch Vale Essex Boys Best Bitter 3.8% Full bodied, traditional-style mid-brown “best” brewed from 100% English barley malt and copious English Challenger and Boadicea hops, which shine through.
- Caveman Neanderthal 4.4% The Neanderthal remembers when Best Bitter was the
best. This beer is our recollection of that, full of roast and caramel malt flavours and traditional Kent hops. - Portobello Central Line 4.4% The use of a unique malt combination gives a distinct red hue and a rich malt base complemented by a clean aroma and a robust hop bitterness.
- Bexley Old Mill Autumn Ale 4.5% This Autumn seasonal bitter has a lovely malty, biscuity taste and end bitterness.
- Elephant School Peasant’s Revolt 4.6% Deep red ale brewed with New World hops giving big hop flavours.
- Canterbury ‘26’ Light Amber 6.4% A strong, medium bodied, hoppy amber ale. The Olicana, Amarillo and Magnum hops give a deliciously complex flavour profile of spice, floral and subtle citrus. This is offset by the slight sweetness of the malt base
incorporating light crystal.
Dark Beers [Festival Bar]:
- Westerham Wally Winkers Death by Chocolate Stout 4.5% A triple chocolate stout with an intensely sweet, chocolatey nose balanced by a medium-dry flavour of bitter chocolate rounded out by hints of coffee and sweet vanilla.
- Nuttycombe RCH Old Slug Porter 4.5% A delicious traditional porter with a full bodied taste of chocolate, coffee, blackcurrant and black cherry with a good aroma.
- Brentwood Poseidon’s Porter 4.6% Robust and complex dark porter with notes of caramel, chocolate with a hoppy finish.
- Gadds Dark Conspiracy Porter 4.9% Rich, smooth, dark ale combines great flavours from English, German and Belgian malts with a careful blend of American and Kentish hops to give a truly complex drinking experience.
- Titanic Plum Porter 4.9% This beer is dark strong and well rounded; the richness of such a rotund beer is brought to an even keel by the late addition of Goldings hops and natural plum flavouring.
- Black Hole No Escape Porter 5.2% A combination of chocolate and damsons with a hint of vanilla supported by underlying roast malt. Complex flavours yield to hops for a mildly bitter dry after taste.
LocAle is a CAMRA term signifying real ale from breweries within 30 miles of the club.
Kegs [Main Bar]:
- Craft Beer Man Helles Lager 4.0% (Local) A Helles style Lager brewed to the German purity laws. With its citrus notes, it is gluten-free and vegan friendly. Brewed in Knockholt.
- Tonbridge India Pale Ale 4.8% (Local) A modern IPA with a robust flavour and a crisp medium bitter finish. Kent grown Target and Epic hops provide a delicate blend of fruit, herb and spice notes. Dry hopped with English Cascade for an extra intensity.
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 Blackcurrant 5.0% A blackcurrant cider, clear and bright ruby red in colour. Rich berry flavour with a balance of tart and sweetness.
- 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.
- Dudda’s Tun Bone Dry 5.5% A clean, crisp and full-dry cider made from Katy and Bramley apples – refreshing to the end.
- Kent Cider Pear 6.0% A medium still cider made using Kentish Comice and Conference pears. Soft and delicate on the palate: this cider differs from perry as it isn’t made with perry pears.
- 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.