Welcome to the Henley Beer & Wine Festival 2006:
Here are just a few of the brewers who will be attending this years festival...
Please note: Although everyone is welcome at the festival, please remember that you must be 18 years of age or over to purchase and consume alcohol.
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Loddon Brewery:
We produce beers to suit all tastes; ranging from Hoppit, a
traditional well hopped English ale to our flagship brand
Ferryman's Gold, a smooth, zesty, aromatic, golden, continental
style beer.
Woods Wines :Established in 1992 to provide an international
selection of competitively priced wines, that cannot be found in the High Street, to
Restaurants, Hotels, Pubs, Nightclubs, Event Management companies and Wine Enthusiasts.
Refresh
UK is an innovative drinks marketing business originally launched in June 2000. We have an original approach to brand management and promotion, and
we have a portfolio of brands which covers a wide variety of quality ales and lagers.
The
Thomas Hardy Brewery is a unique, private, service company dedicated to brewing and packaging customers'
own premium brands under confidential contracts. Thomas Hardy is able to focus totally on
customers' requirements, as it is neither a regional brewer selling spare capacity, nor does
it own any brands or pubs. Thomas Hardy is renowned for service, quality, responsiveness,
openness, and competitive pricing, and is continually investing in quality plant and qualified
people to meet brand owners' demands.
Ellis of Richmond has excelled in supplying high quality wines since 1822.
The same family remain as guardians of the business today, having built up a reputation for innovative
products and excellent customer service. Our customers range from restaurants, style bars, gastropubs,
hotels and golf clubs which we serve from our London base, (using our own bonded warehouse and
distribution centre), through our own fleet of delivery vehicles.
The
Rebellion Beer Company produces high quality distinctive real ales,
using traditional brewing techniques both for the pub trade, and for
home consumption
Daleside Brewery is Yorkshire's regional
brewer specialising in high quality real ales and beers. Brewed using traditional methods to heritage recipes and our own unique recipes
based on unrivaled knowledge and expertise our ales and beers have won many awards international, national regional and local.
Greene
King has operated pubs and brewing for over 200 years. Combining
successful traditional ale brands with modern forward thinking,
Greene King has grown steadily from its base in Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk to become a leading pub retailer and brewer.
Butler’s
Brewery is located on the historic Mapledurham Estate in South Oxfordshire. It is a small, family owned brewery that was
started by Mark and Sarah Butler. The Butler’s have lived in the same area for 400 years and been in the farm on the estate
where the beer is produced since 1947.
Helen Maggs and her husband David established the West Berkshire
Brewery Company, just outside Newbury, Berkshire, in 1995. As one of a small number of specialist
real ale brewers in the UK, they produce 30 brewing barrels (120 firkins / 8,640 pints) of beer a
week and distribute to over a hundred free house pubs across the Home Counties.
The West Berkshire Brewery produces eight different ales, including best-selling Good Old Boy,
the enticingly named Mr Chubbs' Lunchtime Bitter and several seasonal beers.
Following a lot of hard work by Dave and his assistant brewer Steve Bunting,
and despite some initial set backs, the brewplant was commissioned and production of Acorn Brewery Barnsley
Bitter began on 4th July 2003, using the same yeast strain as the original Barnsley Brewery, founded in the
1850’s. Since then, sales have grown steadily and the range of beers has increased.
Acorn Brewery has developed a popular Yorkshire brand and is currently supplying over 300 free
trade outlets and 3 national wholesalers with an average of 40 brewer’s barrels per week (over 11,500 pints per week).
BROUGHTON
ALES LTD is a small family owned brewery situated in the beautiful
Border Hill Country of Scotland. This area is famous in Scottish
history and renowned for its Border Keeps and Castles originating in
the 13th and 14th centuries, where the Ale Wives would have brewed
the Beers and Stouts which form the traditional base today for Broughton`s cask and bottled ales and stout.
The Cairngorm Brewery, established in August 2001,
is based in the Highland village of Aviemore within the Cairngorm National Park.
Here our craftsmen brew the “Champion Beer of Scotland” and the “Champion
Specialty Beer of Britain”, together with a range of other award winning ales, both cask conditioned and bottled.
Our goal is to produce a range of quality real ales to satisfy the tastes of the discerning drinker, this is achieved by having a professional brewing team using the very best of ingredients that money can buy and working with a highly efficient plant.
The brewery is situated at the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales and takes water from Upper Wharfedale.
Cotleigh Brewery began life in Devon in 1979, in the old stable
block of Cotleigh Farmhouse at Washfield near Tiverton. The original operation started as
a five barrel brewing plant, with Tawny being the first brew and it has since remained
the brand leader. Immediate success meant that in 1980 the brewery moved to Somerset and
into the current brewing site in Wiveliscombe.
Dark Star is a small brewery in Haywards Heath, in the county of West Sussex, England.
It has just three tied houses (the Evening Star pub in Brighton, the Stand Up Inn in Haywards Heath and the
Duke of Wellington in Shoreham-by-Sea), but distributes its beers to many other pubs in Sussex
A fine cask conditioned bitter that is brewed in Maidstone by this wonderful
independent brewery that is known around Kent for its very fine tasting beers.
Goachers Fine Light Ale is a pale, golden brown bitter with a strong, floral, hoppy aroma and aftertaste.
A hoppy and moderately malty session beer.
RCH Brewery started in the early 1980's at the Royal Clarence Hotel.
The Brewery was purchased by the Davey Family in 1984. In 1993 Graham Dunbavan was employed as a
brewer and new beers were developed by him and Paul Davey.
We brew some of the finest real ale in
Cornwall and are renowned throughout
the uk for the quality and distinct, hoppy aromas of our beers.
We're delighted and genuinely proud to be able to say that since opening, our ales
have won more awards than any other brewery in the west country - including twice supreme
champion of the south west, and SIBA UK National Reserve Champion of Great Britain.
Hop Daemon Brewery,
the Brewery strives to use traditionally grown ingredients including local hops; no chemicals or additives are
ever used. Beer can be supplied in casks, polypins or bottled and the Skrimshander I.P.A is Kent CAMRA Champion 2002.
