Durham Beer Festival 2022
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- Location
- Durham City Rugby Football Club Hollow Drift/Green La, Durham DH1 3JU
- Beer list
- 48 beers listed
Beer List
This beer list is tentative, please check at the festival for available beers as changes can occur before and during the festival.
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Deep red and full bodied. Rich and complex malts provide depth, complimented by a hedgerow berry aroma
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Bitter
A characterful hoppy beer with a slightly dry aftertaste. A great session beer. Sponsored by The Victoria, Durham
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Brown Cow
A rich deep chestnut coloured ale, with a beautifully smooth creamy head. A citrus aftertaste gives way to a long dry finish.
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Farmers Bitter
A traditional copper coloured malt ale using the finest English hops to produce both a floral and smooth aroma but still having a sharp finish.
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Oxford Gold
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Boathouse Blonde
A premium blonde ale brewed using lager and wheat malts. A collection of 3 world hop varieties are used in this brew
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Road Crew
The beer is golden in colour and has a hoppy citrus and blackcurrant flavour and satisfying bitter finish.
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Special Porter (Tempered)
Chocolate and vanilla infused brown porter.
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White Hot
White Hot Is the perfect summer beer; highly hopped and sparkling with wheat-like cereal characteristics
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Beachcomber
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Rampart
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A Gold award winning amber coloured session pale ale. English hops and Maris Otter barley give it fabulous taste and aroma
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All English seven grained Polly Donkin stout has a rich roasted coffee aroma, is smooth and creamy with blackberry notes
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Daleside Bitter
A classic English Ale copper coloured with a refreshing crisp malt finish.
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Little Deeper
Big tropical, citrus and black pepper aroma. The high bitterness is balanced by a full and rich malt body. A little sessionable double IPA
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Mirrorbilia
A gentle grapefruit bitterness overlaid with tropical fruit and blackcurrant notes. Dry hopped with Citra for a big tropical lime hit.
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1872 Porter
It has an old port nose, coffee and bitter chocolate flavours from four malts. Sponsored by Nick Young
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Harvey Porter
Rich and full bodied with lots of coffee and chocolate aroma and flavour.
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Leaves on the Line
Spicy grapefruit character from cascade hops in the whirlpool and dry hop
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Bitter & Twisted
Crystal malt for sweetness, aromatic fruit from the hops and oats to give the brew some body. Not to mention a naughty tingling lemon finish.
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Lakeland Gold
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Summer Lightning
An extremely pleasant bitter, straw coloured beer with a terrific fresh, hoppy aroma.
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Festival ESB
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Porterhouse 5
An easy drinking milk porter. Speciality Belgian and German malts combine to add to the smooth finish with notes of dried fruit and caramel.
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Maximus
A sweet liquorice taste that is warming and easy to drink. Beware of its underlying strength
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Swedish Blonde
A refreshing and well balanced blonde beer with orange and grapefruit flavours
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A zesty Blonde Ale with citra and amarillo
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The Classic Best Bitter, Chocolate Malt background with earthy English hops
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Kickflip
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Wearside Blonde
Refreshing, thirst quenching golden ale with hints of orange and citrus.
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Light, crisp, refreshing bitter
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Orkney Dark Island
Ripe, fruity and roast coffee aromas with flavours of dark chocolate, dates and nuts
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Red McGregor
Initial toasted caramel malt aromas and flavours then mouth-watering citrus hop fruits giving way to a clean, fruity, refreshing hop bitterness.
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Star
A smooth, balanced bitter. Brewed with traditional English hop and malt varieties
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Battleaxe
Bitter sweet, with complex fruit that gives a memorable aftertaste.
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Valkyrie
American West Coast pale ale, gold in colour, with a slightly tropical and hoppy finish.
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Capuccino Stout
Strong coffee aromas and flavours, Cappuccino Stout delivers a smooth, roasted and sweet taste to savour.
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Architects of Madness
Dark red hoppy bitter, full bodied brewed with roast, black and crystal malts, hopped with English Cardinal and West Coast Amarillo.
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Charm Offensive
Blonde ale, brewed with spring pale malt and light in body with a hoppy, citrus and fruity finish.
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Tranquility of Solitude
Named because it is extremely jammy! Wild fermented base cider is blended with freshly juiced red plums. The result is a summer spectacular! Medium-sweet and incredibly quaffable
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Hop Grenade
Hopped with Kentish green-hops, adding a vibrant, grassy dimension to the cider. Expect medium acidity with a herbal bitterness to the finish.
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Wild Haze
A cloudy, medium blend. Sessionable and easy going with strawberry, grape and honeydew melon notes.
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Henry Huffcap
Medium dry single variety. Notes of vanilla and rich spice. Lovely pear tannins at the finish. (Perry)
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Port Wine of Glastonbury
Medium-Sweet - True to its name, this cider has in origins in orchards below Glastonbury Tor. Easy on the palate, this is a true session cider with light effervesence and lemony tones.
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Yarlington Mill
Benchmark medium-dry, still cider. A touch of sharpness balances some strong, mineral tannins. Red apple flesh and hints of funk from the wild ferment.
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Four Years, Three Apples
A drinkable oak cask cider featuring a complex array of carefully blended individually fermented apples. A frankly outrageously sublime cider.
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About the festival
After a difficult couple of years we are finally able to hold the 40th Durham Beer Festival in 2022!
Dates for your diary are:
- Wednesday 31st August: 1600-2230
- Thursday 1st September: 1200-2230
- Friday 2nd September: 1200-2230
- Saturday 3rd September: 1200-2230
Some details are still being finalized, but we currently plan on having 30 handpulls and 6-8 ciders available.
Keep an eye on our Social Media channels and the website for updates!
Facebook: /CAMRADurhamBeerFestival Twitter: @durhambeerfest2
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 website is not endorsed by the festival organisers, it's just something I put together which I thought might be useful. Bear in mind that the information provided here may be inaccurate.