The award-winning Fagins pub of Taffs Well will be holding their annual beer festival, starting today, the 4th and continuing over the 5th & 6th October.
Beer list:
Tiny Rebel - Hadouken - 7.4%
Tiny Rebel - Koochie - 6%
Violet Spring brewery - Sunshine - 4.7%
Downton - Quadhop - 3.9%
Blakemere - Cosmic - 6%
Moorhouse - Pride of Pendle - 4.1%
Conwy - Autumn Red - 4.5%
RCH - Santa Fe - 7.3%
Gower - Power - 5.5%
Gower - Lighthouse - 4.5%
Otley - Oxymoron - 5.5%
Pixie Spring - The Boss - 4.4%
Pixie Spring - Deliverance - 4.5%
Pixie Spring - Amarillo - 4%
Clark's - Westgate Gold - 4.2%
Elgoods - Indian Summer - 4.8%
Red Squirrel - Conservation Bitter - 4.1%
Titanic - Pier - 5.4%
Kelham Island - Pale Rider 5.2%
Ilkley - Gold - 3.9%
Hopback - Summer Lightning - 5%
Hammerpot - Woodcote Bitter - 4.5%
Elland - Curiosity - 4.7%
Buffy's - Norwich Terrier - 3.6%
Cider :
Gwynt y Ddraig - Welsh Warrior 6%
Gwynt y Ddraig - Happy Daze 4.5%
Westons - Old Rosie - 7.4%
Westons - No 1 - 5%
The multi-award-winning alehouse Fagins' in Taffs Well will be holding a beer festival this weekend:
Beers available, subject to availability etc:
BRANSCOMBE SUMMA THAT – 5%
BLACK DOG SCHOONER – 4.2%
EXE VALLEY AUTUMN GLORY – 4.5%
HUNTERS BUTCHERS BEST – 4%
HOGGLEYS IPA – 5%
ILKLEY BLACK SUMMIT – 5%
KELHAM ISLAND PALE RIDER – 5.2%
LYMESTONE LYMESTONE COWBOY – 4.2%
MOUNT MURRAY BUSHY’S SILVERD ALE – 4%
MOOR BEER REVIVAL – 3.8%
MOOR BEER SUMMERLAND GOLD – 5%
MOOR BEER SOUTHERN STAR – 4.1%
MOOR BEER ILLUSION – 4.5%
NORTH YORKS FLYING HERBERT – 4.7%
PEERLESS STORR LAGER – 4.8%
REBELLION MUTINY – 4.5%
1684 TRIPLE CHAMPION – 4%
THORNBRIDGE SEAFORTH – 5.9%
TYRST RAJ IPA – 5.5%
WELSH BEERS
BRECON BEACON – 4.5%
BRAGDY’R NANT MWNCI NEL – 5.5%
CERDDIN CWRW TRI – 4.5%
CERDDIN CASCADE – 4.8%
NEATH FIREBRICK – 4.2%
ON HAND PULL
BATHAMS BEST BITTER – 4%
DARK STAR AMERICAN PALE ALE – 4.7
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 and the pub does not smell of fish as a certain Cardiff pub on Cathedral Road does.
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 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
The award-winning Fagin's Ale & Chop House, situated just outside of Cardiff, will be holding their a beer festival this weekend. Well it opens today (Thursday) and carries on until Sunday. Fagins Festival Beers List - (In Alphabetical order) Subject to availabilty
Atlas – Kinlochleven – Three Sisters – 4.2% - Dark fruity beer with whole flower hops balances the dark malt character. Bragdy’r Nant – Llanrwst – North Wales – Monkey Nells – 5.9% Breconshire – Brecon – Ramblers Ruin – 5% - Dark amber,malty well hopped with a beautifully balanced aftertaste. Brew Dog - Fraserburgh north east Scotland - Dogma – 7.8% - Heather Honey infused ale – Brewed with Guarana, Poppy seeds & Kola nut blended with Scottish heather honey. Brew Dog – Fraserburgh north east Scotland - Punk IPA – 6% - Light Golden in colour with tropical fruits & caramelon the nose. Made with New Zealand hops Brew Dog – Fraserburgh north east Scotland – Zeitgeist – 4.9% - Black lager. Bridge of Allan – Stirling - Bannockburn – 4.2% - Pale Golden Beer.Refreshing complex hoppy & fruity aroma. Bridge of Allan – Stirling - Bramble – 4.2% (cloudy) Brewed with the finest & freshest Scottish brambles from the forth valley.Smooth with a tangy aftertaste. Cairngorm – Aviemore – Nessies Monster Mash – 44% - Malty lightly hopped. Cairngorm – Aviemore – Trade Winds – 4.3% - Golden beer made with wheat. Blended with pearl hops & elderflower to give a bouquet of fruit & citrus flavours.. Elland – Leeds – Tomahawk – 4.7% - A pale gold premium bitter with a aromatic hop aroma. Made with USA hops Columbus tomahawk. Goose Eye – Keithley West Yorkshire – Chinook – 4.2% - Pale beer with plenty of hops giving a hoppy subtle citrus flavour. Hambleton – Melmerby North Yorkshire – Stallion – 4.2% - Premium bitter. Has a distinctly malty character with a hint of nuttiness. Newmans – Caerphilly – Red Castle Cream – 4.7% - Copper coloured bitter with a smooth finish. Ossett – Ossett West Yorkshire – Silver King – 4.3% - Lager style beer with a crisp dry flavour & citrus fruity aroma. Ossett – Ossett West Yorkshire – Excelsior – 5.2% - Mellow yet full flavoured. Fresh hoppy aroma with toffee & floral characteristics. Otley – Pontypridd – 01 – 4% - Straw coloured pale ale with styrian goldings aroma hops. Otley – Pontypridd – 0F – 4.8% - Brewed for only Fagins a pale golden well balanced modern premium bitter. Otley – Pontypridd – Porter – 6.6%ish – This porter has been cask conditioned for 14 months !!! Purple Moose – Porthmadog – Glaslyn Ale – 4.2% - A golden coloured fruity best bitter with a well balanced hopped finish. Red Squirrel – Hertford – WeissBier – 5% - Contains lots of wheat malt & a German yeast. A cloudy beer with that traditional refreshing weiss bier taste. Red Squirrel – Hertford – White Mountain American India Pale Ale – 5.4%.- Contains four pale malts & one coloured malt plus two American hops. St. Austell – Cornwall – Proper Job – 4.7% - A powerfully hopped golden bitter that explodes with citrus & grapefruit flavour. Timothy Taylors – West Yorkshire – Landlord – 4.3% - Classic strong pale ale. Has won more awards nationally than any other beer. Valhalla – Shetland – Auld Rock – 4.5% - Dark full bodied Scottish style ale. Valhalla – Shetland – Simmer Dim – 4% - Golden bitter that explodes with citrus & grapefruit flavour.
Otley brewery and Fagins Ale & Chop House have got together and are asking customers to come up with a name for their new beer. Described as "a pale coloured bitter at 4.8% with hopefully plenty of hop character" this beer will become the house beer for the pub and is provisionally called O-F but all suggestions for the new name from customers will be considered.
Fagins Ale & Chop house 8 Cardiff Rd Taffs Well Cardiff CF15 7QD
