TWICKENHAM BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL 2009

We are sorry to report that there will not be a beer festival this year or for the foreseeable future. Unless we get more members from our branch area getting actively involved in what we do and attend our monthly meetings the possibility of future festivals organised by the CAMRA Richmond & Hounslow Branch will not happen.

10th TWICKENHAM BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL 2008

23rd - 25th October 2008

The Festival was held again in the Clarendon Hall/Hyde Room at YORK HOUSE Richmond Road, Twickenham, TW1 3AA.

This year the glasses were sponsored by Twickenham Fine Ales.

Attendance at this year's festival broke all records and on Thursday night it was 20% up on last year. Approximatly 3,150 people visited the festival over the two and half days.

The beer of the festival was Captain Oats Dark Mild (4.5%) by the Brown Cow Brewery.

Pictures of the 'beer of the festival' presentation to Sue and Keith Simpson of the Brown Cow Brewery can be seen on the Gallery page.

Our chosen charity this year was the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, for which we raised over £1000!

Pictures taken at the festival have now been posted on the Gallery pages.

Opening Times:
Thursday 23rd October - 5.00pm to 10.30pm; Friday 24th October - 11.00am to 10.30pm
Saturday 25th October - 11.00am to 10.30pm

List of the beers ordered for the Festival:

• Foreign bottled beers updated (77kb pdf)
• Cask ales Iss.2a (77kb pdf)
• Cask ales with descriptions (95kb pdf)
• Ciders and Perries Iss.2b (106kb pdf)

9th TWICKENHAM BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL 2007

18th - 20th October 2007

The Festival was held in the Clarendon Hall/Hyde Room, York House, 44 York Street, Twickenham. TW1 3BZ

The Rugby Union World Cup final between England & South Africa was screened at the festival.

Approximatly 2,600 visited the festival over the two and half days.

Pictures taken at the festival can now be seen by following the link from the Gallery page.

List of the Beers that were ordered for the Festival:

• Foreign bottled beers (updated*) (66kb pdf)
• Cask ales (74kb pdf)
• Cask ales with descriptions (84kb pdf)
• Ciders and Perries (160kb pdf)

8th TWICKENHAM BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL 2006

19th - 21st October 2006

The 'Beer of the Festival' with 26 votes cast was Autumn Blaze from Twickenham Fine Ales. Second was Jaipur IPA from Thornbridge (which won the Peterborough Beer festival) with 24 votes. In third place was Hophead's Dark Star with 13 votes.

Read about what Chris Wickham of the Richmond and Twickenham Times had to say about the 2005 festival.

The list of beers and ciders that were available at the Festival can be printed from the links below. (NB. The beers/ciders available in 2007 will be completely different with a few exceptions.)

• Beer list (121Kb PDF)
• Cider & Perry plus Foreign beers (86kb PDF).

Last year we including in the Festival Programme a pull-out pub guide for the Twickenham area. Below is a printable version of the map and pub descriptions.

• Twickenham Pub Guide (A3) (44Kb PDF) *
• Map of TW1 & TW2 area (A4) (794kb JPG).
  On a PC to download file; right-click link and then select save as...

* NB. Some pubs have changed since publication.

The guide lists all pubs in the TW1 and TW2 postal areas which include Twickenham, Whitton and St Margarets. Not all pubs listed will serve real ale and many that do, serve it in less than ideal condition. Please note that pubs, beers and management will always be subject to change and although the guide has been compiled with our best endeavours, we accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be found. Changes to pubs are regularly reported in the London Drinker (select Captital Pub Check) which is available bi-monthly from many pubs in the area.