Real Ale & Cider Festivals

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.