It was back to the Town Hall where Skipton Beer Festival started. The Town Hall had been redeveloped and was now very different to what it had been in 2007 when we started. While it was the same venue, the layout it was very different which meant we had to rethink the festival layout. In the past the beer had to go in the annex, now the annex was gone and so too was the sprung floor in the main hall so the beer was now in the main hall. The stage gone, giving more space but less storage space.
Also, after our enforced break, we decided to make a few other alterations. We were struggling to come up with ideas for the ever-increasing herd of sheep in the logo so an earlier logo was ‘reinvented’ (I leave it to you to find which one) and it was decided to stick with it for a few years at least. We introduced keg beers, still CAMRA approved, as carbon dioxide is not added to the beer just it’s natural carbonation for fizz. We were a little nervous as to how things would go, would people come back after the pandemic, or would people stay away? We are pleased to say people did return and the festival went well.
Beer of the festival: Revolutions Swoon (4.5%) with joint runners up Chantry Special Reserve (6.3%) and Lamb X Mild (3.2%). Cider/perry of the festival: Ampleforth Medium Dry Cider.
| Cask ales | |
|---|---|
| Abbeydale Heathen (4.1%) [GF/VG] | |
| Acorn Summer Pale (4.1%) | |
| Acorn Old Moor Porter (4.4%) | |
| Allendale Adder Lager (5%) [VG] | |
| Batemans XXXB (4.8%) | |
| Beer Ink Et Al (3.8%) [VG] | |
| Bingley Dark Mild (3.8%) [L] | |
| Bingley Goldy Locks (4%) [L] | |
| Black Sheep Riggwelter (5.9%) | |
| Black Sheep York – Guzzler (3.6%) | |
| Bosuns Maiden Voyage (3.9%) | |
| Bosuns Tempest (5.6%) | |
| Bradfield Farmers Ale (3.9%) | |
| Bradfield Farmers Steel Cow (4.5%) | |
| Brains Rev James (4.5%) | |
| Bridgehouse Baltic Rum Porter (6%) [L] | |
| Bridgehouse Cherry Choc Stout (6%) [L] | |
| Camerons Sanctuary (3.8%) | |
| Castle Rock Harvest Pale (3.8%) | |
| Chantry Diamond Black (4.5%) [VG] | |
| Chantry Special Reserve (6.3%) [VG] | |
| Craven Brew Co. B.Y.B (Best Yorkshire bitter) (3.8%) [L] | |
| Craven Brew Co. Y.P.A (Yorkshire pale ale) (4.8%) [L] | |
| Cullercoats Polly Donkin (4.2%) | |
| Daleside Blonde (3.9%) | |
| Daleside Monkey Wrench (5.3%) | |
| Durham Dark Angel (4.3%) | |
| Elland Globetrotter (3.7%) | |
| Elland 1872 Porter (6.5%) | |
| Firebrick Tyne 9 (3.9%) | |
| Goose Eye Spring Wells (3.6%) [L] | |
| Goose Eye Pommie’s Revenge (5.2%) [L] | |
| Gorilla Ape-X (4.6%) [VG] | |
| Gorilla Kong (6%) [VG] | |
| Harrogate Harrogate Best (4.5%) | |
| Harrogate Harrogate Pale (4.2%) | |
| Hops & Dots Fat Fingers (5.1%) | |
| Lamb Pale (3.9%) [L] | |
| Lamb X Mild (3.2%) [L] | |
| Little Critters Raspberry Blonde (4.5%) [VG] | |
| Little Valley Radical Roots (4%) [VG/FT] [L] | |
| Little Valley Moor Ale (5.5%) [VG] [L] | |
| Mill Valley Yorkshire Mild (4.2%) [VG] | |
| Mill Valley Luddite (3.8%) [VG] | |
| Ossett Butterley (3.8%) | |
| Ossett Rat Hot Chilli Peppers (4.3%) | |
| Peregrine Flight of the Falcon (3.7%) | |
| Peregrine Mutiny (4.8%) | |
| Revolutions Swoon (4.5%) | |
| Roosters Thousand Yard Stare (5.4%) [GF/VG] | |
| Roosters Strength in Numbers (7%) [VG] | |
| S43 The Raven (4.3%) | |
| Settle Epic IPA (4.4%) [L] | |
| Settle Ernie’s Milk Stout (4.5%) [L] | |
| Shadow Brewing Phantom Signs (3.6%) [VG] [L] | |
| Skinners Betty Stoggs (4%) | |
| St. Austell Proper Job (4.5%) | |
| Theakstons XB (4.5%) | |
| Theakstons Old Peculier (5.6%) | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Dark Mild (3.5%) [L] | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Boltmaker (4%) [L] | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Landlord (4.3%) [L] | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Landlord Dark (4.3%) [L] | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Knowle Spring (4.2%) [L] | |
| Timothy Taylor’s Golden Best (3.5%) [L] | |
| Vocation Heart & Soul (4.4%) [GF/VG] [L] | |
| Wensleydale Black Dub (4.4%) | |
| Wensleydale Demon Dance (4.6%) [VG] | |
| Wishbone Abyss (4.3%) [L] | |
| Woodforde Bure Gold (4.3%) | |
| Key keg | |
| Abbeydale Wanderer (6%) [GF/VG] | |
| Abbeydale Salvation (4.5%) [GF/VG] | |
| Beer Ink Ampelmannchen (3.4%) | |
| Little Critters Nutty Ambassador (6%) | |
| Little Critters C Monster (6.5%) [VG] | |
| Revolutions Free Fallin’ (4.5%) [VG] | |
| Vocation Sunset Overdrive (8%) [L] | |
| Vocation Roll With It (5.2%) [VG] [L] | |
| Wishbone Dassler (4.2%) [VG] [L] | |
| Wishbone Tiny Pixie (4.2%) [GF/VG] [L] |
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