Beer Festival @ White Hart, Halstead
Details TBA
Details TBA
The Annual Alma Beer Festival will take place from Thursday 23th May to Monday 27th May (with a beer sale on Tuesday 28th if there is any left!). Over 20 Real Ales and a few Ciders will be available.
The Programme is as follows:
Thur 23th May - 10% Discount to CAMRA MEMBERS
Fri 24th May - Colchester Morris Dancers 7.30 pm, Poker Competition 8.30 pm her response
Sat 25th May - Live music from Amandinus
Sun 26th May - Sunday Roasts served all day
We will be presenting to Rural Pub of the Year award to The Black Buoy at 3.30pm
We will be presenting to Town and Overall Pub of the Year award to The New Inn at 7:00pm
We will be presenting to Highly Commended Town Pub of the Year award to The Ale House at 7:30pm
2019 Beer Festival - in the Village Hall. 17 Real Ales; Cider; Prosecco; Gin and Wine to sample and enjoy.
Saturday: Entry: £5 per person (includes souvenir glass) from 1.00pm to Midnight (3.00pm: Hells Belles Morris Dancers; 5.00pm: Ricardo and his Flamenco guitar; 9.00pm: Half a Whopper - live pharmaciepourhomme.fr/!).
Sunday: Entry: £4 per person from Midday to 5.00pm-ish (2.00pm: Belchamp Morris Dancers). Food available both days.
Details can be found on their website, https://www.ecrc.uk/
Colchester Arts Centre
The Thinking Drinkers return with a BRAND-NEW SHOW, a hilarious and intoxicating look at history’s greatest drinkers. Enjoy five free drinks as the award-winning experts reveal how alcohol has inspired pioneering explorers, politicians and painters in equal measure, from Plato and Picasso, to Nelson, Napoleon and Norm from Cheers. You'll learn a lot, laugh a lot and, don't forget, you get five free drinks.
London Beer Weekend at The New Inn with 14 different cask beers and 4 beers on keg.
10+ Ciders. Offer of 4 half pints of any cider & a ploughmans platter for £10.
Music on Saturday night from 8pm.
Cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic
We will be presenting the White Hart, Halstead with their Highly Commended Rural Pub of the Year award.
Cider festival at The Swan Inn, Chappel
We will be presenting the Live & Let Live, Stanway with their Town Runner-up Pub of the Year award and their Highly Commended Cider Pub of the Year award.
Brewdog tap takeover
After winning our overall branch award for Pub of the Year, the New Inn went on to win the Essex Pub of the Year award, beating other branch pubs from around the county!
They will be presented with their county award around 4-5pm.
Manningtree Beer Festival will be by the beach in Manningtree with a variety of ales.
https://www.riverstourfestival.com/event/manningtree-beer-festival/
See Chambers number 84 Bus
Beer, cider, music & cricket
7+ Cloudwater beers on tap
Other Monkey Brewing are launching their latest beer, Ten Thousand Lies (Amber), at Three Wise Monkeys.
Meet the brewer and prize giveaway from 7pm.
The Duchess pub is becoming The Camulodunum! Special offers and events over the opening weekend.
10 Real Ales and Ciders. Live music.
30+ beers on cask & draft
https://www.facebook.com/events/2251096721669876/?ti=cl
Food served as normal with the addition of an outside BBQ on Saturday from 2pm.
Live music: Saturday - 12-5pm - Polly Haynes & Silence of the Sirens
Sunday - 12-5pm - Shane Diggens & Blackwater Jazz Band