Fagins Beer Festival features Trashy Blonde!

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The award-winning Fagins pub in Taffs Well, will be holding their annual beer festival this weekend with kick-off tonight (Thursday).
LIVE MUSIC THURSDAY NIGHT WITH R&B (RICHIE & BOB)
PIG ROAST FRIDAY AFTEROON - (approx 3pm-ish) together with a Koran burning.
LIVE MUSIC SATURDAY NIGHT WITH BANJAXED

Easily reached by bus from either Cardiff or Pontypridd, Fagins has had a deserved reputation for good food and real ale for many years. This roadside terraced inn offers a traditional pub environment with wooden beams on the ceiling and barrels as tables as well as a separate restaurant to the rear. The wooden beams feature bilingual graffiti which add to the convivial atmosphere of having a pint of real ale in this pub.

The beer range is the best for miles with real ales from across the UK regularly available alongside more local brews from award-winning breweries such as Otley and Vale of Glamorgan. Beers are either served via the traditional beer engine on the bar or straight from the barrel in the temperature-controlled stillage behind the bar. Fagins is one of the few pubs in South Wales to use this gravity-method of dispensing real ale. The constantly changing beer range is one of the reasons this pub is very popular and the beer list is updated to the pub website on a weekly basis. Recent guest beers have included Sarah Hughes dark Ruby Mild and Hobsons Town Crier, both unusual beers to find here in South Wales away from their West Midlands and Shropshire homelands.

 Two beer festivals are also held every year

Fagins also hosts live music every Thursday and occasional Fridays and Saturdays – the pub website gives full details of the bands booked to appear.

Both bar meals and restaurant meals are available, check out the chalkboard in the pub for what the daily specials are. Wherever possible the food is locally sourced Welsh produce and can include home-made steak & Kidney Pie with handmade chips or home-cooked ham or locally-made sausages. Food is served 12-2 and 6-9 every day apart from Mondays and Sunday nights.

Local cider is also available from Gwynt Y Ddraig, an award-winning cidermaker based just a few miles away in Llantwit Fardre. At the moment two ciders are available on draught from Gwynt, their Farmhouse Scrumpy and Hazy Daze.

Fagins Ale & Chop House has won awards over the years; the most recent was the Mid-Glamorgan Branch of CAMRA Pub of the Year 2008. The motto of Fagins is “Real Ale, Real Food, Real Fire, Real People” and who can argue with that for a great pub. This pub is well worth stopping in, either for a quick pint or two or for a meal.

The Beer List:

ART BREWERY - DORSET - GHB - 4.6%
ART BREWERT - DORSET - MONKEY IPA - 6.4%
BAYS - TORBAY - BREAKER - 4.7%
BAYS - DEVON DUMPLING - 5.1%
BRECON - YSBRID Y DDRAIG - 6.5%
BREW DOG - ABERDEEN - TRASHY BLONDE - 4.1%
BREW DOG - ABERDEEN - 5AM SAINT - 5%
BREW DOG - ABERDEEN - PUNK IPA - 6%
ELLAND - LEEDS - ELANT - 4.1%
ELLAND - LEEDS - NETTLETHRASHER - 4.4%
ELLAND - LEEDS - SPACE - 5.6%
KELHAM ISLAND - SHEFFIELD - 45RPM - 4.5%
KELHAM ISLAND - SHEFFIELD - PALE RIDER - 5.2%
KELHAM ISALND - SHEFFIELD - RIDERS ON THE STORM - 4.5%
MOOR BEER - JJJ IPA - 9%
O'HANLANS - STORM STAY - 5%
OAKHAM - PETERBROUGH - WHITE DWARF - 4.3%
OAKAHM - PETERBROUGH - AKHENATEN - 4.9%
RED SQUIRREL - HERTFORDSHIRE - COLORADO IPA - 5.4%
SARAH HUGHES - SURPRISE - 5%
SARAH HUGHES - DARK RUBY MILD - 6%
SALOPIAN - SHREWSBURY - LEMON DREAM - 4.6%
THORNBRIDGE - DERBYSHIRE - JAYWICK - 4.8%
THORNBRIDGE - COLORADO RED - 5.9%
TRIPLE FFF - HAMPSHIRE - MOONDANCE - 4.2%
TRIPLE FFF - HAMPSHIRE - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - 4.6% 

Fagins
8 Cardiff Rd,
Taffs Well,
CARDIFF,
South Glamorgan
CF15 7RE
Traveline Cymru: Bus Nos 26 & 132 stop nearby