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Exeter City Football Club
St James Park
Stadium Way
Exeter
EX4 6PX
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   Half Pint Glass                                         Tankards (300 available)

                                                                           Sold out on Friday

                                                 

25th Exeter & East Devon CAMRA
Festival of Winter Ales

 

The Exeter & East Devon 25th Festival of Winter Ales (FOWA) took place at Exeter City Football Club (ECFC)  on the 10th/11th January 2014. 

 

This event which specialises in winter ales was attended by approximately 1500 people over the two days.  72 casks were on offer along with 12 ciders and 2 perries and I’m pleased to say all were drunk.  

 

12 of the 72 were SW Champion Beers of Britain candidates and were judged in a blind tasting on the Friday morning.  Need I say that the that the winner of the Barley Wines & Strong Old Ales categories, Beast of Zeal from Wessex was sold out by Friday evening. 

 

Among the many old familiar Christmas favourites were Yo Ho Ho, Whistlemas, Feast of Stephen and Winter Glow to name a few.  These were joined by new beers such as John Street Porter, St. Wites Ale and many more.

 

For the first time in many years the festival had some live music.  An accomplished singer from Exmouth (Nigel Challis) strummed away and was well received especially when he ended with a couple of Oasis songs that had the ground floor festival goers singing in harmony.  Well maybe just making a lot of noise.

 

Finally, just like to say thanks to all those that came, all those volunteers that helped, the valuable assistance from the ECFC staff and lastly Simon Hall from BBC’s Spotlight for opening the event.

 

Looking forward and planning next year’s festival already.

 

Ray Dwan
Festival Organiser

 

Below was our 2014 Provisional Festial of Winter Ale List

 

 

BREWERY

BEER

 

ABV

 

Allsaints, Redruth, Cornwall

Feast of Stephen

 

4.2

 

Art Brew, Nth Chideock, Dorset

Anarchist Party Bitter

 

7.2

 

Backyard Walsall

New Year

 

4.3

 

Battledown, Cheltenham, Gloucs

Four Kings

 

7.2

 

Beer Engine, Newton St Cyres, Devon

Whistlemas

 

6.8

 

Beowulf  Brownhills Staffordshire

Grendells Winter Ale

 

5.8

 

Black Hole, Burton on Trent, Staffs

Starry Night

 

4.4

 

Box Steam Holt Wiltshire

Dark & Handsome

 

5.0

 

Branscombe Vale, Branscombe, Devon

Yo Ho Ho   

 

6.0

 

Branscombe Vale, Branscombe, Devon

Festive Frolics

 

4.5

 

Buntingford Royston Hertfordshire

Winter Gold

 

4.3

 

Burton Bridge Burton Upon Trent

Old Expensive

 

6.5

 

Bushys Isle Of Man

Old Bushy Tail

 

4.5

 

Clarks Wakefield West Yorkshire

Knee Deep

 

4.4

 

Clearwater, Torrington, Devon

Dark Night

 

5.2

 

Coastal, Redruth, Cornwall

Erosion

 

7.5

 

Cottage, Lovington, Somerset

Normans Conquest

 

7.0

 

Cumbrian Legendary Hawkeshead Cumbria

Langdale

 

4.0

 

Dartmoor, Devon

Santas Secret

 

4.2

 

Driftwood, St Agnes, Cornwall

Alfies Revenge

 

6.5

 

Elland West Yorkshire

1872 Porter

 

6.5

 

Exe Valley, Silverton, Devon

Winter Glow

 

6.0

 

Exeter Devon

Falls Over

 

5.0

 

Exmoor, Wiveliscombe, Somerset

Beast

 

6.6

 

Fat Pig Exeter

John Street Porter

 

4.7

 

Great Oakley Tiffield Northamptonshire

Tiffield Winter Brew

 

4.8

 

Hadrian & Border Newcastle Upn Tyne

Mid Winter Ale

 

5.0

 

Hanlons Newton St Cyres Devon

Goodwill

 

5.0

 

Holsworthy Clawton Devon

Old Market Monk

 

6.1

 

Humpty Dumpty Reedham Norfolk

Christmas Cracker

 

7.0

 

Hunter’s, Ipplepen, Devon

Dashers Dinkle

 

5.5

 

Isca, Dawlish, Devon

25th Winter Festival

 

5.2

 

Kinver Ales Kinver Staffordshire

Over The Edge

 

7.5

 

Kirkby Lonsdale Lancashire

Jingling Lane

 

3.6

 

Long Man Litlington East Sussex

Old Man

 

4.3

 

Lymestone, Stone, Staffs

Pudding Stone

 

4.8

 

Marston Moor York

Santa Paws

 

4.3

 

Mighty Hop, Lyme Regis, Dorset

Vallances Stout

 

5.0

 

Moor, Pitney, Somerset

Old Freddy Walker

 

7.0

 

North Cotswold, Stretton-on-Fosse, Warwickshire

Winter Solstice

 

4.5

 

North Yorkshire Pinchinthorpe North Yorkshire

Rocket Fuel

 

5.0

 

Old Dairy Rolvenden Kent

Snow Top Winter Warmer

 

6.0

 

Old Mill Snaith East Yorkshire

Santas Midnight Moonshine

 

4.5

 

Otter, Luppitt, Devon

Otter Claus

 

5.0

 

Penzance

Mello

 

5.5

 

Plain Ales Sutton Veney Wiltshire

Wreck The Halls

 

5.0

 

Ramsbury Mildenhall Wiltshire

Deer Hunter

 

5.0

 

RCH, West Hewish, Somerset

Santa Fe

 

7.3

 

Sadlers Stourbridge West Midlands

Snow Leopard

 

5.0

 

Strathaven Ales, Nr Glasgow

Trumpeter

 

4.2

 

Summerskills, Plymouth, Devon

Indiana’s Bones

 

5.6

 

Sunny Republic Winterborn Kingston Dorset

St. Wites Ale

 

5.5

 

Tavey Ales Plymouth

Solstice

 

5.0

 

Teignwothy, Newton Abbot, Devon

Walnut Brown

 

6.5

 

Three B's Blackburn Lancashire

Santas Skinful

 

4.0

 

Tirril Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria

Old Faithful

 

4.0

 

Titanic, Burslem, Staffs

Deck the Halls

 

4.2

 

Topsham, Devon

Devils Walkabout

 

8.1

 

Town Mill, Lyme Regis, Dorset

Granny's Teeth

 

6.0

 

Tring Hertfordshire

Snow Flake

 

4.2

 

Twisted Oak Wrington Somerset

Slippery Slope

 

5.5

 

Wadworth Devizes Wiltshire

Old Timer

 

5.8

 

Wessex Deverill Wiltshire

Best of Zeals

 

 

 

Whale Ale Brailes Warwickshire

Amber

 

4.3

 

Wharfebank Wharfedale West Yorkshire

WISPA

 

5.1

 

Yeovil Somerset

Yeo Ho Ho

 

4.7

 

York North Yorkshire

Naughty Noelle

 

4.5

 

Simon Hall opens the festival with Ray Dwan (Chairman & Festival Organiser) in the back ground.

Ray Hodgins (Vice Chair) settles for two halves for a well deserved break..

A selection of cider and perry all sold out before the end of the festival.

Younger Members Lewis and Matt, ready for action, but wait, the beers about to run out.

If you enjoyed the festival or like what you see we hope you come again next year.

 

You may even like to help us out with the festival or even join us on the festival committee. If you feel you have a few free hours, want to meet some great people, have some fun, drink some free beer, obtain a limited edition fastival T-shirt & glass, then we would love to hear from you. Please click      to email us to find out how you could help. 

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