I attended the Wetherspoon 2011 Autumn Real Ale and Cider Festival, which ran 5 to 23 October 2011 and featured 50 real ales and 10 ciders.
I’ve detailed the drinks I sampled at various different JDW pubs during the festival, with marks out of ten.
The festival included American craft ale, shown as [US] below, beer brewed exclusively for the festival [exclusive], and resurrection beer (beer that has not been produced for some time brewed again for the festival) [resurrection].
- Beartown Wojtek- 8.5/10
- Bell’s Brewery Black Silk [US] [exclusive] – 6.5/10
- Box Steam Piston Broke [exclusive] – 7/10
- Brakspear Tripple- 8.75/10
- Brewster’s American Chopper [exclusive] – 8.5/10
- Broadoak Chedder Valley – 7.5/10
- Cotleigh Commando Hoofing IPA – 7/10
- Double Maxim Anderson’s Best Scotch [exclusive] – 7/10
- Everards Whakkatu – 8.5/10
- Exmoor Hart [resurrection] – 7.75/10
- Fat Head’s Yakima Sun [US] [exclusive] – 7/10
- Hilden Twisted Hop [exclusive] – 7.5/10
- Hook Norton Flagship Ale – 8/10
- JW Lees The Governor – 8.5/10
- Moorhouse’s Pendal Porter- 8.75/10
- Oakleaf 10 Little Acorns [resurrection] – 8/10
- RCH Firey Liz [resurrection] – 9/10
- Salopian Vapour Trail [exclusive] – 6/10
- St Austell Proper Black- 8/10
- St Peter’s Golden Ale – 8/10
- Thwaites Daniel’s Hammer [resurrection] – 8/10
- Thatchers Chedder Valley – 7.5/10
- Thornbridge Brother Rabbit – 6/10
- Traditional Scottish Ales Taking the Pith – 7.5/10
- Two Trees Farmhouse Perry – 9/10
- Wells Naked Gold – 7/10
- Wharfebank Treacle Toffee Stout [exclusive] – 8.5/10
- White Horse Rustler [exclusive] – 8/10
- Woodforde’s Kett’s Rebellion [exclusive] – 7/10
Full details are given in the festival tasting notes [2.4MB PDF].
