Caskman

What is on offer

 Caskman
We have lots products available for you to sample, hopefully, some old favourites and hopefully some lovely new tastes and flavours, from our wide range of beers, ciders, perries, mead, wine, cheese and other fine products.
 

British Beer

This is the most important part of the Festival, this year we have 210+ different beers available for you to try and enjoy. A lot of time and research has gone into choosing the beers for this year’s beer festival. It's been hard work at times but our busy beer ordering team have been sampling beer from up and down the country in order to bring you a range of the best beers on offer (what us volunteers have to go through eh!). We have a very dedicated Cellar Team, who will be working hard to ensure that the beer is well looked after.

Please help the bar staff to help you by following these guide lines, especially when we are busy.

  1. No Glass, no service, so do remember to get your glass from the glasses counter.
  2. Please select your choice before getting to the bar and have a second choice if not available.
  3. Please go to the bar where your choice of beer is, please, don't ask for beers that are not near to you. The beers will be arranged alphabetically by brewery, from left to right as you look at the bars.
  4. Please ask for your choice by quality, brewery name and beer name.
    • Please specify the amount you want, does "Can I try" mean a 'sample', 'half' or a 'pint' ? The bar staff are good, but not mind readers.
    • We often have more than one beer from a brewery.
    • There could have two beers of the same name at that bar.
  5. Please have the right change, also, please use your twenty pound notes on the way in.
  6. When we are busy, please, be paitent, the bar staff will get to you as soon as they can.
  7. Leaning over the bar, banging your glass on the bar and other actions (trying) to attract the bar staff are generally counter-pro-active.
  8. ENJOY Yourselves. If you have any questions, and we are NOT busy, then please ask. The staff like talking about beer !!

New to British Beer or would just like to bone up on the various styles ? Then please have a read of our guide to British Beer.

Here is the provisional list of British Beers.

Foreign Beer

As usual, all the old favourites will abound, but we are also trying to get some new beers in to the bar from Belgium, as there have been quite a few new breweries start up out there. The full list of foreign beers expected is not currently available. However, a list of beers will be available on the bar itself.
Please read the bar rules and enjoy.

  1. No drinking from the bottle.
  2. All beer will be poured into your glass. No Glass, no service.
  3. Bottles DO NOT leave the bar opened. This is a safety measure designed to protect you, as well as the bottle costing us a deposit. Please do not ask to take an opened bottle away from the bar as a refusal often offends. Also, you can take away unopened bottles, ONLY IF YOU ARE LEAVING THE FESTIVAL AFTER BUYING THEM AND ONLY AT LUNCHTIMES. If you want some put by, then we will do this for you, and keep them for you until you leave.
    Please note there will be no takeaway service in the evenings as we are too busy.
  4. ENJOY Yourselves. If you have any questions, and we are NOT busy, then please ask. The staff like talking about beer !!

New to Foreign Beer or would just like to bone up on the various styles ? Then please have a read of our guide to Foreign Beer.

Don’t forget, you can get most of these beers from the Bacchanalia shops in Cambridge and a lot of them from Beers of Europe in Setchey.

Cider

Real cider is a long-established traditional drink which is produced naturally from apples and is neither carbonated or pasteurised. We have gathered together a wide range of over 90 Real Ciders and Perry from both local producers and from across the country.

New to Real Cider and Perry or would just like to bone up on the various styles ? Then please have a read of our guide to Real Cider and Perry.

Here is the provisional list of the Real Cider and Perry.

Wine

We are again delighted to ask Cambridge's local winery, Chilford Halls, to the Cambridge Beer Festival

Cheese

Once again, at the Cambridge Beer Festival, there will be plenty of food from our famous cheese counter, also run by our CAMRA volunteers. Featuring some 80+ different cheeses of all varieties, with an emphasis in 2010 on smoked cheeses. As well as cheese, there is bread, smoked meats and pork pies all from local producers.

Here is the provisional list of the Cheeses.