Beer Festival
Well It's Happened!
The Third Annual Vaults Beer Festival has taken place.
Thursday 29th June to Sunday 2nd July
There is now a finished list for the Festival. It included many beers from the South-West, and Phil surpassed himself with the list.
Incidently, a well done is in order to you all that visited us. Not a drop from this list was left when we closed on Sunday!
The full list was as follows....
| Brewery | Ale | Strength |
| Ashvine | Hatrick | 3.8% |
| New Balls Please | 4.0% | |
| In The Summertime | 4.3% | |
| Oliver Cromwell | 4.7% | |
| Black Gold | 4.8% | |
| Bath Ales | Spa | 3.7% |
| Gem | 4.1% | |
| Branscombe | BVB | 4.6% |
| Butcombe | Bitter | 4.0% |
| Premier Gold | 4.7% | |
| Exe Valley | Devon Summer | 3.9% |
| Dobs Bitter | 4.1% | |
| Forth | Steamboat Ale (Taken off - not vey well!) | 4.0% |
| Moor Brewery | Avalon Summer | 4.0% |
| Somerland Gold | 5.0% | |
| Old Freddie Walker | 7.3% | |
| Organic Brewhouse | Lizard Point | 4.0% |
| Quay Brewery | Harbour Master | 3.6% |
| Jazzamattazz | 4.0% | |
| Weymouth JD(1742) | 4.2% | |
| Bombshell | 4.5% | |
| Steam Beer | 4.5% | |
| Skinners | Spriggan | 3.8% |
| Betty Stoggs | 4.0% | |
| Cornish Cream | 4.2% | |
| Cornish Knocker | 4.5% | |
| Figgys Brew | 4.5% | |
| Who Put The Lights Out | 5.0% | |
| Swale | Old Stroker | 4.1% |
| Ventnor | Sunfire | 4.3% |
| Oyster Stout | 4.5% | |
| VAULTS | FESTIVAL SPECIAL ALE | 5.0% |
The Okells beers that were originally posted for the festival were kept back to allow us to concentrate on the South-western Breweries. Consequently, we will be having a "mini-festival" on July 7th-9th that will be dedicated to this most excellent Manx Brewery.
There was also a raffle in aid of the RNLI that raised a generous sum for this noblest of causes.
The full list of prizes was as follows:
| Prize | Number |
| Teddy Bear | 679 |
| Bottle of Red Wine | 576 |
| Fullers 1845 | 282 |
| Steamin' Billy T-Shirt | 547 |
| Gales Fruit Wine | 516 |
| Shepherd Neame Christmas Ale | 383 |
| Framed Beer Mats | 508 |
| Hoegaarden Glasses | 527 |
| Ruddles Glasses | 453 |
| Fruit Beer | 320 |
| Fuggles T-Shirt | 367 |
| Old Speckled Hen Glasses | 468 |