By Neville Grundy, Southport and West Lancs CAMRA
As I mentioned last week, Southport’s Tap and Bottles is holding a mini beer festival during the last weekend of this month from Friday 28th October to Sunday 30th October 2022.
It will be an autumn / Hallowe’en-themed festival called Feer Street, which will itself feature a mini smoke fest with four smoked cask ales on, one of which will be a 8% stock ale (a traditional British strong, fruity ale style).
The cask beers will include a green-hopped beer, brewed in conjunction with the Handyman Brewery of Liverpool, a pumpkin mild with Southport’s own Hex Brewery and a wooden barrel-aged strong stout from the Neptune Brewery of Maghull.
Also on cask they will be serving ales from the North Riding and Redwillow breweries, and Halloween-themed beers from the Reedley Hallows Brewery and from the ever-popular Salopian Brewery.
There’ll also be plenty to keep the craft keg beer lover happy with an offering from the Kernel Brewery, and a trio of strong Hallowe’en-themed beers from Rivington Brewery brewed in collaboration with the Track, Pomona Island and Chainhouse breweries.
Other craft keg beers will include three pumpkin beer kegs: an ice-cream pale, a porter and a sour respectively from the Top Rope, Elusive and Vault City breweries (Top Rope is another local brewery based in Bootle).
Entertainment will include competitions for the best carved pumpkin, best costume and a conker tournament.
This festival will provide you with an opportunity to try a great selection of real ales and craft beers that won’t be available anywhere else locally, and for obvious reasons you won’t be able to drink the special Hallowe’en brews at any other time of the year.
If you want a unique drinking experience, make sure you get yourself along to the Tap and Bottles over the Hallowe’en weekend.
The Tap and Bottles is in Cambridge Walks in Southport town centre. This arcade runs between Lord Street and Chapel Street in Southport town centre; the Lord Street entrance is next to the Atkinson arts centre. Buses run nearby on Lord Street and the railway station is just a short walk away.
► The Beer Den on Duke Street, Southport, is holding its 4th birthday party this Saturday 22nd October 2022. As the first-ever customer through the door, I’ll be there.
► The national CAMRA website is at: camra.org.uk. The Southport & West Lancs Branch website is at: southport.camra.org.uk.
Neville Grundy
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