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Welcome to BunkFest Beer Festivals 2005. As in previous years we have not just one Beer Festival but two. Our main beer tent can be found in the Kinecroft with a smaller edition, the Bunk Beer Festival, at Wallingford Station. This year we hope to bring you an even better beer festival than ever before - we should have at least 60 excellent quality real ales from a wide range of small independent brewers producing a great variety of styles.
You can sample over 30 ales we've not served at BunkFest before, together with a range of old favourites. If you are looking for locally brewed ales then the BunkFest beer festival has the very best from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Brakspear Bitter, Special and Seasonal Ale are available along with other Oxfordshire brews including beers from Wychwood, Loddon, Butler's, White Horse and Oxfordshire Ales. Moving further afield we have beers from a very new brewery, Red Squirrel in Hertford and a very old brewery, Donnington near Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.
The BunkFest also has its own beer, "Bunk Ale", which has been specially brewed for us by West Berkshire Brewery, available straight from the barrel or in bottles for you to take away. To mark the 850th anniversary of Wallingford's Charter we have the unique Charter Ale, a good, refreshing session bitter.
Lagerboy?
If you prefer your beer ice cold and fizzy then we have an excellent premium lager, Lowenbrau. If lager is your usual drink, why not try one of our cask conditioned lagers or golden bitters for a change, you might be pleasantly surprised by the taste! Or go the whole hob and try a pint of Hobgoblin?
Cidergirl?
(or boy), then we have a range of ciders from which you can choose - Westons, Thatchers and others including Upton which is made locally at a small orchard less than 10 miles from Wallingford.
We also have fine wine and a good range of soft drinks available. The Kinecroft beer tent is adjacent to the excellent range of fab food stalls from around the world, and snacks are available at the Bunk Beer festival from the Railway cafe (daytime) and the bar (evening).
Beers confirmed so far
| Beer | Brewery | ABV | Description | |||
| Black Swan Dark Mild | Vale Brewery | 3.3% | Dark and smooth with an impressive full roast flavour that belies its strength. A CAMRA Winner! | |||
| Black Beauty Porter | Vale Brewery | 4.3% | A Dark Horse! A Wholesome full bodied Porter. Heavy malt flavour gives way to a wonderful hop character. | |||
| Barbus Barbus | Butts Brewery | 4.6% | The pale malt in this amber beer is tempered with a hint of crystal malt, well balanced by hops and fruit, leading to a long, complex and bitter sweet finish. Very drinkable. | |||
| Shefford Pale Ale | B&T Brewery | 4.5% | A well balanced beer with hop, fruit and malt flavours. Dry, bitter aftertaste. | |||
| Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout | B&T Brewery | 4.5% | A pleasant, bitter beer with a strong roast malt flavour. Champion Beer of East Anglia 2001. | |||
| Shannon IPA | Potton Brewery | 3.6% | A fabulous ale with a railway theme. Named after the "Shannon" locomotive that once worked the Potton- Sandy Railway and the Wantage Tramway. It can now found at Didcot Railway Centre. | |||
| Village Bike | Potton Brewery | 4.3% | ||||
| Brakspear Bitter | Brakspear Brewing | 3.4% | Celebrating its return to Oxfordshire this June and a return to the Brakspear Double Drop Brewing Process, Brakspear "Ordinary" Bitter is a superb session beer. Amber in colour with a good fruit, hop and malt nose. The intial taste of malt and the well hopped bitterness quickly dissolve into a bitter-sweet and fruity finish. | "(62.72)" | ||
| Brakspear Special | Brakspear Brewing | 4.3% | Golden red colour with a well balanced aroma with a hint of sweetness. Full bodied, the taste is initially sweet giving way to a dry hop bitterness, finishing with a slightly sweet finish. | "(77.54)" | ||
| Oxfordshire Bitter | Butler's Brewery | 3.6% | A traditional Oxfordshire Bitter- pale in colour and easy drinking, ideal for afternoon quaffing! | |||
| Leaf Fall Brew | Brakspear Brewing | 5.1% | As the weather hardens and the leaves turn to vivid reds and browns so should the beer. Wheat is a “soft” and “rounded” grain ideally suited to dark roasting like coffee. Just like coffee, the best-roasted wheat gives a delicious aroma in this Autumn beer. | "(79.06)" | ||
| Monty's Mild | Brewster's Brewing Co | 4.0% | A full-bodied dark mild made with a blend of pale, chocolate and crystal malts as well as torrefied wheat. Lightly hopped with Progress. | |||
| Marquis | Brewster's Brewing Co | 3.8% | A pleasant quaffing beer with a light maltiness, balanced by a dry hoppy finish. | |||
| Le Butts Cask Conditioned Lager | Butts Brewery | 5.0% | ||||
| Jester | Butts Brewery | 3.5% | This amber coloured beer is fruity and slightly buttery, with an excellent hop aroma supported by pale malt. Aroma and bittering hops balance in the mouth, leading to a dry, hoppy finish. A previous CAMRA beer of the year. | |||
| Brewers Gold | Crouch Vale Brewery | 4.0% | Striking grapefruit nose leads to a beer of generally citrus hoppy character, underpinned by a perfumed sweetness and an aftertaste of orange wine gums. A 2003 CAMRA beer of the year. | |||
| Essex Boys Bitter | Crouch Vale Brewery | 3.5% | A pale brown beer with plenty of pleasing malt and hop flavour despite the low gravity. | |||
| SBA | Donnington Brewery | 4.4% | Malt dominates over bitterness in the subtle flavour of this premium bitter, which has a hint of fruit and a dry malty finish | |||
| XXX Dark Mild | Donnington Brewery | 3.6% | A pleasant mild from the Cotswolds which doesn't normally find its way beyond Donnington's own pubs. Thanks Mr Teal, for kindly supplying this one. | |||
| Steaming On | Hook Norton Brewery | 4.4% | A dark reddish – brown ale with a slightly smokey flavour, due to the addition of Peated Malt, normally used in Whisky production. | |||
| Haymaker | Hook Norton Brewery | 5.0% | Hook Norton's new summer beer for 2005. Try it before the summer ends! | |||
| Hoppit | Loddon Brewery | 3.5% | Moderate in strength, but packed with flavour. Smooth malty body, quite bitter with the aroma and taste of east Kent Golding hops. | |||
| Russet | Loddon Brewery | 4.5% | A rich autumnal ale with a reddish colour. | |||
| Check Mate | Loddon Brewery | 4.8% | A Czechoslovakian style Pilsner brewed with low colour Cara malt and Saaz hops. The result is a beer that's appealing to the eye and sensuous on the palate. | |||
| Ferryman's Gold | Loddon Brewery | 4.4% | ||||
| Reel Ale | Teignworthy Brewery | 4.0% | Clean, sharp tasting bitter with lasting hoppiness and predominately malty aroma. | |||
| Spring Tide | Teignworthy Brewery | 4.3% | An excellent, full and well rounded, mid-brown beer with a dry, bitter taste and aftertaste | |||
| Old Moggie | Teignworthy Brewery | 4.4% | A golden, hoppy and fruity ale, hand delivered from the West Country! | |||
| Ridgeway Bitter | Ridgeway Brewery | 4.0% | ||||
| Hobgoblin | Wychwood Brewery | 5.0% | Powerful, full bodied, copper red, well balanced brew. Strong in roasted malt, with a moderate, hoppy bitterness and a slightly fruity flavour. | |||
| Bunk Ale | West Berkshire Brewery | 3.8% | A highly hopped and refreshing brew, unique to the BunkFest. An ideal quaffing ale! | |||
| Full Circle | West Berkshire Brewery | 4.5% | A Silver medal winner at GBBF August 2003 and Best of Festival, Oxford 2003. Originally brewed to commemorate our 1000th brew and made from single variety hops from the only remaining old Berkshire hop garden at Kingston Bagpuize. Medium in colour with a distinctive hoppy flavour. | |||
| Good Old Boy | West Berkshire Brewery | 4.0% | A good ordinary bitter which won first prize at the White Horse Branch of CAMRA beer festival in 1995, and a gold medal at the 2002 SIBA South East Regional Completion. Strongly hopped and fully flavoured. | |||
| Jack O'Legs | Tring Brewery Co | 4.2% | A combination of four types of malt and two types of aroma hops provide a copper-coloured premium ale with full fruit and a distinctive hoppy bitterness. | |||
| Colley's Dog | Tring Brewery Co | 5.2% | Dark, but not over rich, strong yet drinkable, this premium ale with has a long dry finish with overtones of malt and walnuts. | |||
| Shoemaker | Frog Island Brewery | 4.2% | Cascade aroma hops create a cauldron of tastes and the full mouthfeel complements the strong orangy/malty aromas that precede the citrus and hoppy bitterness lasting into a long, dry finish. Amber in colour. A previous CAMRA award winner- surely this ale has it all? | |||
| The Reverend's Return | West Berkshire Brewery | 4.3% | Seasonal autumn ale celebrating an Old Vicar from Beenham! | |||
| Dr Hexter's Wedding Ale | West Berkshire Brewery | 4.1% | There are hints of grapefruit in this pale-coloured beer, with strong hop aromas and a long, bitter finish. | |||
| Iceberg | Titanic Brewery | 4.1% | Hoppy and fruity with a touch of malt. Strongly bitter, intensifying to a hoppy finish and supporting astringency. I bet you can't say that after a few! A CAMRA finalist in the 2003 Champion Beer of Britain Competition | |||
| Wayland's Smithy | White Horse Brewery | 4.4% | ||||
| Oxfordshire Bitter | White Horse Brewery | 3.7% | ||||
| Triple B | Oxfordshire Ales | 3.7% | ||||
| Marsh Mellow | Oxfordshire Ales | 4.6% | ||||
| IPA | Rebellion | 3.3% | Copper-coloured bitter, sweet and malty, with resinous and red apple flavours. Caramel and fruit decline to leave a dry, bitter and malty finish. A CAMRA award winner. | |||
| Peat Porter | Moor Beer Co | 4.5% | Dark Brown/ black beer with an initially fruit taste leading to a roast malt taste with a little bitterness. A slightly sweet malty finish | |||
| Withy Cutter | Moor Beer Co | 3.8% | A light malty, pale brown beer with a moderately bitter finish. | |||
| Fiddler's Elbow | Wychwood Brewery | 4.1% | A refreshing straw-coloured quaffing beer containing both wheat and barley malts, ideal for quenching your thirst. | |||
| Conservation Bitter | Red Squirrel | 4.1% | A new beer from a new brewery. Try it and see what you think! | |||
| Tap Bitter | Mole | 3.5% | A session bitter with a smooth, malty flavour and clean bitter finish | |||
| Landlord's Choice | Mole | 4.5% | A dark, strong, smooth porter beer, with a rich fruity palate and malty finish. | |||
| Umbel Ale | Nethergate | 3.8% | Wort is percolated through coriander seeds to give a wonderful, warming, spicy fruit tang to both the taste and aroma. The hops are strong enough to make themselves known and a strong, bitter malt finish hits late. A CAMRA award winner. | |||
| Gold | Grand Union Brewery | 4.2% | A yellow coloured beer brewed with east European, German and American hops, giving fruity hop notes on the nose and in the flavour. The aftertaste is crisp and dry. | |||
| Porter | Burton Bridge | 4.5% | Dark red, with a faint roast aroma. The taste combines some liquorice flavour with hops and fruit; slightly sweet. A dry, astringent aftertaste. A former CAMRA beer of the year. | |||
| Old Granary Bitter | Butler's Brewery | 4.2% | ||||
| Coniston Old Man | Coniston Brewery | 4.8% | ||||
| Iron Man | Ridgeway Brewery | 4.5% | ||||