Oxford CAMRA:
2010 Beer Festival

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Thursday 14th October, 5pm-11pm
Friday 15th October, 11am-11pm
Saturday 16th October, 11am-8pm

The 2010 Oxford Beer Festival will take place from Thursday 14th October to Saturday 16th October, at Oxford Town Hall (map), celibrating our thirteenth annual event at that venue.

Featuring 140 Real Ales (and 40 duplicate casks of the most poular beers for Saturday); Real Cider and Perry

Admission is £2 (£1 for card-carrying CAMRA members), payable on the door - there are no advanced ticket sales. There is a £2 glass deposit; this is returned in full if you hand in your undamaged glass when leaving the festival (alternatively you are very welcome to keep the glass as a souvenir). Beer is payed for at the bar using beer tokens. We recommend that you buy a £6 token sheet on entry (you can buy more sheets later if needed). Unused tokens will be refunded in full as you leave the festival, or can be donated to the festival charity (Sobell House Hospice). In order to streamline the entry process and avoid a build up of the queue, please have ready £10-per-head (£9-per-head for CAMRA members), in cash, when queueing for entrance.

CAMRA volunteers are needed to help staff the festival, setup on Wednesday 13th and takedown on the morning of Sunday 17th. Contact the Staffing Officer, Matt Bullock (staffing@oxfordcamra.org.uk, 01608 811981). The staffing form (PDF, 32Kbytes) is available to download, if you would like to print one yourself (the file is in Adobe Portable Document Format; you may need to download the free Acrobat Reader to read and print it).

Please help promote the Festival if you can; the poster (PDF, 140Kbytes) is available to download.

Beer List

Disclaimer: availability of any particular beer during the course of the festival is at the discretion of the bar manager - we will only serve beer when and if we think it is fit to be served.

Our intention is to offer around 140 different beers, and we will have a duplicate cask of 40 of the beers which are expected to be most popular (the festival has a capacity of 180 firkins overall). The duplicates are guaranteed to be available on Saturday morning; they are intended to ensure some variety in the beer list for those who travel to the festival on Saturday, if sales are strong in the first couple of days.

The beer list is now final, and reflects the beers that were actually delivered to site and put up on the stillage.