Food and Refreshment

Bungles BBQ - Simple BBQ food (friday)

Hogroast and Barbie - Saturday we have a hogroast and Barbie provided courtesy of the wonderful Gary Smith’s Butchers.

Glorious Fayre – provide us with exotic noodles

The Rolling Pancake Company - bringing sweet savoury and veggie pancakes

Union Jackets. Who sell jacket potatoes with hot and cold fillings, hot & cold drinks and sausage/bacon rolls in the morning

Jeffs Ice Creams return with their wonderful, old fashioned way of serving ice creams to customers on an old Victorian ice cream bike. They use New Forest Ice Cream and have 25 years experience in manufacturing award-winning ice creams and sorbets.

Bungle’s Mums Emporium – will sell Tea, coffee, cakes and doughnuts as well as slush puppies and band merchandise.

We will have a variety of fresh and tasty food and drink available throughout the day with both cooked food and tea and coffee stalls. So no need to struggle with that heavy picnic basket

 

Beer, Ales & Cider

This Year’s Beer tent is Kindly Sponsored by the Wonderful Loddon Brewery!

Our experts have gone through a rigorous testing scheme to ensure you only get the finest ales. So dedicated are they that they sometimes check the quality of a beer 8 or 10 times!

After all of this testing and testing and a few paracetamols later we have the following companies who will be providing some excellent ales for you to try.

In addition to the many beers on offer there will be a marvellous cocktail bar serving summer cocktails to complement the wines that will be available. Our friends at the Old Post Office will welcome you to try one of their delicious concoctions!

 

Rugfest Best Bitter 3.8% ABV

rugfest_beer_logo_2011Brewed with the festival goer in mind this special edition is just for you. Rugfest Bitter is a full, clean, bitter tasting beer with malty and hoppy flavours and winey, fruity overtones. We do know how to look after you don’t we!

 

Wychwood Brewery

Hobgoblin 4.5% ABV
Full bodied and well balanced with a chocolate toffee malt flavour, moderate bitterness and a distinctive fruity character with a ruby red glow."

"What's the matter Lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?"

Wychcraft 3.8% ABV
A seductive blend of pale, lager and Cara malts give a light and gentle base of delicious dry biscuit flavours, while the addition of English fuggles, Styrian Goldings and Cascade hops create a wonderfully aromatic and fragrant zesty character for a highly refreshing anytime beer

Gingerbread 4.0% ABV
This amber ale is infused with root ginger to deliver a spicy finish with a bit of a bite. Try it if you dare

 

Brakspear Beers

Brakspear Buzz 4.2% ABV
A golden bitter with a luscious honey aroma. Brakspear Buzz is brewed in collaboration with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. There is no sting in the tail, just a moreish, full bodied flavour. A classic English beer brewed to 4.2% abv.

 

Mansfield Beers

Mansfield Original Bitter 3.9% ABV
A full bodied session bitter with a smooth finish, ideal for all social drinking occasions to enjoy with friends. Brewed to a recipe that has stayed the same for generations, with only the finest natural ingredients and our unique brewing yeast.

 

Lilley's Cider

Westons Country Perry 4.5% ABV
English perry made in Herefordshire. Fermented and fully matured in old oak vats to develop an exquisite, delicate, light and fruity character. Softly floral with a clear natural pale straw colour.

Leg Bender 6.0% ABV
Rich’s Legbender Ciders are traditionally produced with a blend of cider apples grown in Somerset. It’s a full flavoured crisp, clear still cider, making it easy to drink, But beware it can make you go weak at the knees!

 

Tutts Clump

Tutts Clump Special 6.0% ABV
A dry real cider handmade from a variety of eating, cooking and crab apples from within West Berkshire

 

Gyndt y Dwag

Farmhouse Cloudy Scrumpy 5.3% ABV
At 5.3% abv, Farmhouse Scrumpy is a golden medium cider with a refreshing apple aroma. Its smooth, balanced flavour has a beautifully crisp sharpness

 

Ringwood Beers

Fortyniner 4.9% draught
The name is taken from the beer's strength at 4.9% but also evokes its golden colour. Ringwood has been brewing Fortyniner since 1978 and is our second most popular beer. It is a golden full-bodied malty beer with a deep bitter-sweet finish. Brewed with floor-malted Maris Otter barley, Goldings, Progress, Fuggles and Challenger hops.

Old Thumper 5.6% draught
At 5.6% abv, Old Thumper is our strongest beer and was first brewed in 1979. In 1988 it was awarded the accolade of 'Champion Beer of Britain' by CAMRA which propelled it onto a national .It is the only beer to feature a boars head as its logo which is a key element of the beers' identity. Old Thumper is a copper coloured full-flavoured strong ale brewed with floor-malted Maris Otter barley and Goldings, Progress, Fuggles and Challenger hops.

 

Jennings Beers

Sneck Lifter 5.1% ABV
A dark beer with a reddish tinge, derived from the use of coloured malts, perfectly balanced with specially formulated brewing sugars and English aromatic hops.

Cocker Hoop 4.6% ABV
An award-winning golden bitter from an all malt brew, with Styrian Golding hops added at various stages, to give a classic hop flavour and aroma.

Tizzie Wizzie 3.9% ABV
Tasting Notes: First spotted on Lake Windermere in the early 1900's the Tizzie Wizzie is said to have the body of a hedgehog, the tail of a squirrel and a pair of bee-like wings. This light well balanced ale with its fresh citrus aroma and spicy undertones make for a beast of a beer.

Jennings Dark Mild 3.1% ABV
A very dark malty mild which is characteristically sweet. Well regarded by mild drinkers and with a loyal following

 

Marstons Brewery

Old Empire 5.7% ABV
With its pale appearance, strong hoppy taste and higher alcoholic strength Marston's Old Empire comprises all the genuine characteristics of a true India Pale Ale, which were necessary to last the three month journey from Burton to Bombay. Old Empire is brewed using optic malt, a subtle and paler grain that will allow other flavours to come through on the palate. Goldings and Fuggle Hops are added to this brew, which is then late hopped with the American Cascade variety for extra hop strength.

 

Banks

Banks's Mild 3.5% ABV
Banks's Mild is brewed from local water and hops. A beautifully balanced beer, smooth and full bodied with a malty, warming and slightly fruity taste. It's very easy drinking.

Banks's Bitter 3.8% ABV
Banks's Bitter is a full, clean, bitter tasting beer with malty and hoppy flavours and winey, fruity overtones.

 

Milwhites

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Hedge Layer 4.8% ABV
A light and refreshing traditional cider to quench your thirst.
 
Strawberry Cider 6.5% ABV
A medium scrumpy blended with freshly pressed strawberries. 
 
Straw pressed cider 7.0%ABV
Cider made just as your grandfather would have done in East Devon. Apples are milled then mixed with straw and pressed in the traditional manner..

 

Loddon Brewery

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Hoppit Classic Bitter 3.5% ABV
The predominant hops in Hoppit are East Kent Goldings which traditionally have a Seville Orange marmalade flavour. As well as Pale Ale malt, Hoppit also contains dark Invert Sugar which gives the beer its smooth taste. This is an excellent fairly bitter session ale.

Bamboozle 4.8% ABV
A strong pale ale heavily hopped with English Goldings. The Pale ale malt gives the beer a clean and crisp background.

Hullabaloo 4.2% ABV
English Fuggles impart a dry, herby bitterness which is balanced by the distinctly biscuity flavour of Crystal and Amber malts. A Best Bitter.

Forbury Lion 5.5% ABV
An IPA as an IPA should be: packed with a full malty flavour and a strong complex hop finish imparted by Styrian Goldings and Fuggles.

Summer Snowflake 4.1% ABV
A pale golden ale with a bright white head, like the flower after which it is named. Generously hopped with 'brewers gold' for a fruity and spicy satisfaction.

Ferrymans Gold 4.4% ABV
Brewed using Slovenian Stryian Golding hops, (originally an English variety, which have been grown in slovenia for the last 100 years), which impart a zesty Lime flavour. The mix of Cara malt and Wheat malt give a smooth, creamy body to the beer.

 

Cotswold Brewing Company

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Cotswold Three Point Eight ABV 3.8%
The pretty younger sister of Cotswold Premium. Some would call her a session lager but she's more than that. With her refreshing Continental style and her delicate flavours, she's a thoroughly modern girl with a style of her own. Bubbly and vivacious, Cotswold 3.8 isn't too complicated - just great fun to be with

Cotswold Premium ABV 5.0%
You'll never forget your first love and we'll never forget our first brew. If you think lager doesn't taste of much then it's time you pressed your lips up against a pint of Premium. She's a full flavoured seductress who will soon have you head-over-heals with her crisp, dry taste and flirtatious bitter kick. It's love at first sip

The pretty younger sister of Cotswold Premium. Some would call her a session lager but she's more than that. With her refreshing Continental style and her delicate flavours, she's a thoroughly modern girl with a style of her own. Bubbly and vivacious, Cotswold 3.8 isn't too complicated - just great fun to be with
 

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