Wetherspoons: Castleford and Pontefract pubs to offer 20 real ales during 12-day beer festival
A range of up to 20 real ales, including five from international brewers, will be available at Wetherspoon’s pubs during its 12-day beer festival next month.
The Glass Blower in Bank Street and The Winter Seam in Xscape, Colorado Way along with The Broken Bridge in Horsefair, Pontefract and The Blue Bell in Cross Hill, Hemsworth,will host the festival from Wednesday, March 4 to Sunday, March 15.
It is the first time the Wetherspoon pubs have served a real ale from Mexico.
Almost all of the beers on offer have been brewed for the first time, exclusively for the festival.
Among the festival collection are three vegan beers.
As well as featuring a range of different malt and hop varieties from around the world, there are also beers that include coffee, elderflower, hibiscus, maple syrup, orange and vanilla.
The beers will cost from £2.20 to £2.89 a pint.
The international beers are Tropical (Cervejaria Bodebrown, Brazil), Read the Room (Good Word Brewing, USA), Session IPA (Malteza, Mexico), Vicious IPA (Almogaver, Spain), Nigredo (Birrificio Italiano, Italy).
The festival line up also includes Lucky ‘Lips (Shepherd Neame), Pitch Perfect (Vale), Crimson Legend (Brains), Salem Coastal Confusion (Batemans), Shug Monkey (Elgood’s), Brewed Awakening (Hook Norton).
The Glass Blower manager Sarah Heppinstall said: “The festival is a great celebration of real ale.
“It will allow us to showcase a selection of superb beers, featuring many not previously available to our customers in the pub, including those from brewers as far afield as Mexico and Brazil as well as those closer to home, over a 12-day period.
Three third-of-a-pint tasters will also be available for the price of a pint.
Tasting notes on all of the beers will be available in the pub as part of the festival magazine (a digital version will also be available on the Wetherspoon app and website).