Gwent CAMRA Beer Festival

From Brew Wales

The Gwent Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale are once again running a real ale bar at Tredegar House during the Tredegar House Folk Festival. The bar opens at 1900 hrs on Friday 8th of May 2009 and we have some wonderful real ales for the thirsty customers to try:
Celt Experience Golden
Celt Experience Bronze
Celt Experience Native Storm
Cwmbran Golden Wheat
Cwmbran Pink Panther
Cwmbran 4 Seasons
Otley O1
Otley 02
Otley O-garden
Purple Moose Dark Side of the Moose
Purple Moose Snowdonia Ale
Rhymney Brewery Bevans bitter
Rhymney Brewery Dark
Spinning Dog Original Bitter
Spinning Dog Celtic Gold
Spinning Dog Mutts Nutts
Wye Valley HPA
All beers are subject to availability
All served on gravity and at cellar temperature.
In addition, a range of ciders and perries from Gwynt Y Ddraig, the Welsh cider and perry company will also be available.
Free Entry to the site.
Bar open
Friday 8th May 1900-2300
Sat 9th May 1200-2300
Sun 10th May 1200-2230.
Tredegar House is easily accesable by bus number 36 from Newport city Centre or from the M4, junction 28.
For information on brewing at Tredegar House check out this previous blog
And there is even a blog devoted to Tredegar House here.

Map of area around Tredegar House below:

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LocAle at Abergavenny Food Festival

The Gwent branch of CAMRA will be launching their LocAle promotion during Wales’ largest food fayre – the Abergavenny Food Festival, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September. Having run a fringe event at the Kings Arms brewpub last year, Gwent CAMRA have been welcomed back into the Food Festival, all be it at a different venue from 2 years ago when the real ale and cider bar was in the castle grounds. This year the CAMRA real ale and cider bar will be on the site of the former Facey’s Brewery, to the rear of the market hall in the Lower Brewery Yard.
According to James “Arfur” Daley, bar manager, “It’s great to be back in the Food Festival after a year off. It’s one of the biggest food events in the country and Gwent CAMRA have decided to showcase the best of our breweries by having real ales and ciders from within 30 miles of Abergavenny. That includes current Champion Beer of Wales winner Otley Brewery as well as Breconshire Brewery, Tudor Brewery from Abergavenny and Kingstone Brewery of Tintern. Ciders and perries will be supplied by Gwynt Y Ddraig”.
The Abergavenny Food Festival attracts more than 30,000 visitors annually and was described in the Observer Food Monthly as 'The Glastonbury of Food Festivals'.

More information:
Gwent CAMRA
Abergavenny Food Festival

SPINNING DOG AT NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL

Beers from the Spinning Dog Brewery in Hereford will feature at the real ale bar at the Newport Folk Festival at Tredegar House on the weekend of the 9-11th May. The Gwent Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, will once again be running the bar at the 19th Folk Festival. Gwent CAMRA are aiming to put on a range of the best beers and ciders from the local area and as far away as Herefordshire. Spinning Dog beers will include an Organic beer as well as Celtic Gold and the unusually named Mutt's Nuts, alongside other Herefordshire brewery Wye Valley with their HPA, Butty Bach and Bitter.

Local brews are not left out either with beers from Cwmbran Brewery with their fruity award-winning Blackcurrant Stout on the bar along with Pink Panther – a pink beer, and their malty Four Seasons.
Beers from Rhymney Brewery will also be served – this is a relatively new brewery which takes it's name from an old South Wales brewery that once dominated the area. The current Champion Beer of Wales, Rhymney Dark, will be featured alongside Bevan's Bitter.
A former Champion Beer of Wales winner, Breconshire Brewery will also be at the festival with their Ramblers Ruin, County and Cribyn – an unusual beer in that it's a light mild.
To round off the beer range, another award-winning Welsh brewery, Otley from Pontypridd, will be supplying their OBB and O1.

For those who prefer the apple or pear to the grain and the hop then you will not be left out as multi award-winning Gwynt y Ddraig cider will be bringing their ciders and perries along to the festival. Their ciders are available throughout Wales in supermarkets and pubs but at this festival both bottled and draught products will be available together.

According to James Daley, Gwent CAMRA bar manager, “We have sourced the best Welsh beers and ciders for this festival and we hope we've found something to suit everyone's taste. Newport Folk Festival is our first beer festival of the year and hopefully it will be a good start to the real ale year as next month we have the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival at Cardiff International Arena”.

Further Information:
Newport Folk Festival, Tredegar House,
CAMRA bar open Friday 9th May 7-12,
Saturday 10th May 1200-1200,
Sunday 11th May 12-5

James ‘Arfur’ Daley, Gwent CAMRA , 0794 185 9902
www.gwentcamra.org.uk