Opening Hours: Thursday 5pm - 11pm Friday 11am to 11pm Saturday 11am to 11pm
What beers will be available? 50 cask ales. We're in a much smaller venue than before, but as ever, Lee the beer orderer has been scouring brewery websites, visiting countless pubs and ringing lots of people to bring a tip top selection!
Will there be any other drinks? Yes - cider, perry, soft drinks as well as bottled beers from Belgium, USA and many other countries
Can I get something to eat? Yes - watch this space
Will there be any entertainment? Not this year - you'll have to entertain each other, chat and socialise or play on your phone.
Sponsorship A very big thank you to all our festival sponsors.
Why aren't you in a bigger venue? Our contract with Doncaster College came to an end. We've been looking for a suitable venue and are working hard with our friends at Unity House to bring you another fantastic festival.
How do I get to Unity House? You can walk, catch a taxi or the bus. The nearest bus stop is on Trafford Way - it's the first stop from the bus station but only a 2 or 3 minute walk from there. To the festival, you can catch service 56 and service 55 and 58 back into town. In addition, First South Yorkshire have kindly agreed that the X4 service will call additionally at this stop - this won't be shown in any online journey planners though.
Unity House, Carr Lane, Hyde Park, Doncaster, DN4 5AA | |
Ended Sat 13 May 2017 |
Information is provided to the best of our knowledge, but please check with the festival organiser before attending as the details here may be inaccurate.
This beer list is tentative, please check at the festival for available beers as changes can occur before and during the festival.
This clean, golden ale packs a hoppy, resinous punch from the addition of lashings of American Columbus hops late in the boil and during fermentation.
Traditional mahogany coloured session bitter with subtle yet exotic hop aromas.
An American pale style beer, pale gold with a grapefruit bitterness and tropical fruit flavours
Chocolate cherry chilli stout, with the addition of Doncaster grown chillis - Bhut Jolokia, Caramel Moruga Scorpion, Bhut Jolokia Copenhagen, Grisu and Aleppo.
A pale session ale with a subtle citrus note.
A five malt stout with a liquorice finish.
A rich chestnut coloured bitter with a malty taste and a smooth bitter finish. An excellent session bitter.
A well balanced dark porter with hints of velvety chocolate and roasted barley.
Beer from a new brewery in South Wales using brewing equipment built in Doncaster! BPM is a golden, refreshing, premium ale.
Overture is a dark, rich, malty ale.
Gower Power, like all of our ales, is brewed with traditional floor malted barley and packed full of a choice quality hops, to give a powerful Welsh example of a true British classic – Indian Pale Ale.
Grey Trees’ modern CAMRA award-winning golden ale. Alive with fresh citrus aromas which leave a subtle bitterness. Crafted with Marris Otter pale malt, US hops, Welsh water and Grey Trees’ passion.
Warming and rich with notes of dark fruits, coffee, chocolate and hazelnuts. Crafted with malts, roasted barley, hops, Welsh water and passion.
A light, pale ale with a fresh citrus undertone.
A gently smoked brown ale taking inspiration from a classic German style.
The colour of a Viking's hair and a hoppy punch to take in to battle. The lower ABV makes this an easy drinking session IPA. Unfined so suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
To celebrate the 2017 Tour De Yorkshire Stage 1 finishing in Settle, the brewery this Golden Ale.
Proper Yorkshire bitter. Full bitter flavour balanced with a hint of fruity sweetness
Nosey Parker is a premium strong ale, golden in colour and with a strong bitter flavour. Highly flavoured hops give this beer a longer bitter flavour with floral overtones, deceptively smooth with a strong ‘nose’. The beer is named after local cricketer Martyn Parker, who has played for Overseal Phoenix and Hartshorne. Martyn, who is a great family friend, has floored a few batsman in his time but on one occasion was floored in the middle of bowling a delivery. With all running to his aid, worried about its cause he proceeded to explain that he had been floored by a wasp... sympathy was in abundance. Martyn is also known for his large proboscis, or rather, his nose.
The beer gives that silky texture. A bit of coffee and chocolate on the palate. The bitterness is moderate and it showcases lovely aromas and flavors of oak and Maker's Mark bourbon.
Wellspring showcases flavours such as citrus, tropical fruits and fresh hop. Great malt base, made up from mostly Premium Pilsner malt, with additions of Maris Otter and Munich. It is dry hopped in casks, so it guarantees you a fresh burst of fresh hoppy aromas!
Eyes (Brewed at Ainsty by Eyes)
Intense orange and pine aroma with body from oat malt and caramelised wheat.
Eyes (Brewed at Ainsty by Eyes)
A dark schöps brewed with lactose sugar and six different wheat malts. Roasted caramel and dark fruits with a creamy mouthfeel backed with an aroma of coffee and tobacco.
Brewed with a mix of American hops which, with chocolate malt, gives it a smooth chocolatey start, leading to an increasingly bitter finish.
Brewed with American hops, tropical fruits and pine.
Smooth straw coloured, blonde beer, with the delicate twist of cranberry and raspberry. Nugget hops followed by the late addition of Savinjski Golding adds to the soft fruits, with lemon and spice. Very quaffable.
Flavours of grapefruit and lychee with a floral note. The malt used is Maris Otter Pale to give a crisp, biscuity freshness to an enjoyable and refreshing ale. Dry hopped with Cascade.
One of only 5 casks produced - aged in 40 year old whisky casks.
Mild with coffee.
A surprisingly smooth classic IPA-style beer. The sweet citrus and honey aromas give way to a dry aftertaste.
Crafted with juice from traditional English eating apple varieties, made in a limited batch from the first press of the harvest. This is a refreshingly crisp, fruity, full-flavoured cider, with a smooth, clean finish - made with 100% pressed juice.
The distinct flavour and aroma of Dabinett cider apples really comes through producing a slightly sharp cider with a dry fish
Medium dry cider celebrating the bottle kicking tradition of Hallaton, ‘Scrambler’ brings together the best of West Country apples with the great taste of apples grown in Leicestershire.
A natural cider made only from Cambridgeshire apples (only eating and cooking varieties) fully fermented out and sweetened with apple juice.
A Cambridgeshire Cider bursting with rich flavours of fruits of the forest. Red fruit heaven.
A higher volume of Gala apple juice is added to create a pleasant medium cider with a great apple flavour and a moreish finish. A crowd pleaser both at the local pub and at home
Full bodied dry cider with complex and punchy apple aromas.
Mid-season varieties are the backbone of this delightful cider. Balanced and easy-drinking medium cider, Rocky Road is light and fruity. The Rocks is the name of a former quarrying track that runs up the side of the cidery.
A powerful fruity character is ensured by using only 100% apple juice in every batch. As always at Worley’s, the freshly pressed golden cider apple juice is run into vessels and allowed to slowly ferment under the action of natural yeasts in a cool, dark barn before racking off and maturing for several months.
This cider celebrates our both our history and their location on the outskirts of Wellington with the great Iron Duke who won the battle of Waterloo 200 years ago. His nickname Old Conky was for his conspicuous nose. This craft-made medium-sweet Somerset cider includes only traditional cider apple varieties with a little added celebratory sparkle.
Sweet farmhouse cider from Lincolnshire
A fruity medium perry with a complex yet balanced flavour only found in real perry. This little number is made from Stinking Bishop perry pears and has all the hall marks of a top quality perry
Made from 100% pressed pear juice, it is a medium perry and the taste is fine and delicate – it is light in colour with a very slight green hue.
Apple and pear blended together to make an awesome pair. Beautifully balanced with loads of body,crystal clear and fruity.
A well-rounded, flavoursome, chestnut coloured premium ale. Exceptionally smooth and crisp on the tongue, with a balanced aroma between malt and hops.
A refreshing session pale ale hopped with Saaz.
A Christmas Day brew using 6 different malts and Northern Brewer hops then cold fermented for 3 months on lager yeast. A sweet beer with a spicy finish and caramel on the nose. Unfined so may be hazy.
A mellow easy drinking blonde beer with hints of passion fruit on the finish. Brewed with 60% pilsner malt 40% wheat malt and single variety Rakau hop. Dry hopped and unfined so may be hazy.
Gower Gold is a thirst quenching golden ale. It has refreshing citrus flavours and the lovely aroma of the Cascade hops. Brewed since December 2011, this beer has become an all round firm favourite.
A pale barley malt, wheat and Bohemian hops makes this a delicate and refreshing fruity beer with a sweet finish.
A golden bitter with spicy citrus hop notes.
A smooth dark ale made with chocolate malt that tastes as velvery as it looks.
A powerful mix of multiple malts gives this stout its intense black colour and heady aromas.
A seasonal hoppy ale, packed with clean tropical flavours for a long, clean, hoppy, refreshing finish.
A stripped back IPA malt bill and highly hop it with the tropics of Amarillo and Citra and pile head on with kilos of Blood Orange zest and juice late in the boil, bringing you a smack of citrus and hints of warm orange aromas. One of our favourite and most popular seasonal brews.
Cherry flavoured lambic style beer.
Sweet lambic style beer.
Tart and cloudy classic gueze
Strong winter beer
Black Ball is a potent porter with a nice and round mouth feel combined with a lot of American hops, that balances the full and creamy body which has notes of chocolate, coffee and smoke.
Widely considered one of the best Session IPAs around. Carries the alluring scents of caramel, florals and crisp, freshly cut grass. On the palate, citrus fruits battle for centre stage with grapefruit and mango sharing the flavour podium!
Smoked coffee dark ale. A dark silky-smooth tribute to a bygone era. A deep round black ale brewed with coffee and smoked malts.
Oatmeal stout with hazelnut
This Flemish Oud Bruin style beer is malty, slightly sweet and a bit sour with hints of caramel and plums.
Limited to one per customer With three times the quantity of hops of our explosive IPA ‘Cannonball’ and even more than our flagship Double IPA ‘Human Cannonball’ we’ve created a fitting tribute to the new hop release with this our annual homage to the hop. ‘Un-Human Cannonball ‘takes IPA to another dimension balancing massive citric aroma, deep tropical fruit flavor and gravity defying drinkability to deliver a hop experience that is out of this world. We’ve done our best for the hops don’t let them down by aging this beer, please drink as soon as Un-Humanly possible!
Fruity and citrusy IPA
American Brown Ale spun on oak and dry-hopped with Mosaic
Bourbon Milkshake is an imperial bourbon barrel aged milk stout with vanilla, muscovado and honey.
One sip and you will be immediately transported to the confectionery counter. Flavours of chocolate, dark roasted peanuts and a little salt will satisfy chocolaholics, peanut fans and beer drinkers alike. Beertopia?? Just maybe.
Sour/wild ale
Marshmallow and chocolate stout
A dark, smoky stout with chocolate, molasses and lashings of liquorice followed with a bittersweet finish.
Aire Heads first brew! A big pale ale that has a deluge of tropical fruit flavours followed by a bitter and floral aftertaste from cascade hops.
A coffee and chocolate stout. Packed with flavours from both the coffee and chocolate. Smooth and creamy with a good bitter finish.
A strong golden beer with malt undertones hoppy floral and some dried fruit.
For Tommo's Mild we have used 3 different types of malt to give this beer depth and richness. Mild is a traditional ale, mainly drunk around the Midlands. This brew was developed in time for ‘Mild May’ a celebration of all good things about mild bitter, and is a tradition that we need to keep alive. The chocolate malt gives this ale a distinctive velvet texture and taste. The beer is named after Steve Tomlin, who has been one of the instigators behind pushing Hartshorne Cricket Club into the positive and proactive community club it is today. Steve is incredibly tall, hence the size of the stumps in the pump clip.
A single hopped beer. The Mosaic hop gives a complex array of tropical fruit, citrus, berry, herbal, earthy and pine characteristics.
A hoppy U.S red ale with tropical fruit flavours and citrus.
A pale ale with tropical and citrus fruit flavours from American and New Zealand hops.
Full-blooded and smooth with chocolate and raisins with slight roast from the hefty 6 malt base.
Ominously dark but not heavy, with the lingering finish of roasted barley. Drop O' The Black Stuff is beautifully smooth and easy drinking. Brewed with Maris Otter Pale and dark malts, roasted barley, an aromatic mixture of English hops, and Nottingham Ale yeast. It is also suitable for vegans.
A medium dry beer, full of colour and flavour suited to all tastes.A rounded full-bodied ale with smooth caramelised undertones.
Traditionally strong, this wheat beer is triple filtered for a clean finish.
Fermented with WLP001 for a clean yeast profile, Ekuanot hops take the lead, backed up by Simcoe.
A milk stout uses sugar made from cows milk to give the beer a sweet, creamy tone. Bristol breweries were once famous for brewing the best milk stouts around. For our take on the traditional recipe we’ve used copius amounts of chocolate malts and vanilla pods to create rich, velvety and satisfying dark beer.
Medium-sweet, cloudy, and slowly matured still cider made from freshly pressed apples, paired with a refreshing infusion of rhubarb juice. The well balanced, fruity taste and tart finish provides a deliciously moreish cider
Medium-sweet cherry cider
Sweet and fruity beer
Sweet fruity tasting beer
Stout with chocolate and coffee notes
Hazy orange coloured IPA
American style IPA
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