May 8th 2004. The Horsington Beer Festival.

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The 9th Horsington Beer Festival takes place in May 2008

The Beer festival runs from 2.30 until 8.00pm,
Beers already confirmed for our eighth festival are:
Hidden Potential 4.2%, Tom Wood's Harvest Bitter 4.3%, Wychwood's Hobgoblin 5.0%
Jennings Cocker Hoop 4.6%, Brains' Reverend James 4.5%, Black Sheep Bitter 3.8%
Keystone's award winning Gold Spice 4.0%

In the past 17 years the Half Moon Inn has sold over 1000 different ales. As well as regular brews like Wadworth 6X, London Pride & Badger Tanglefoot, exotic beers such as What The Foxes Hat from Church End Brewery, Butts Barbus, Hungerford and Old Tom an 8.5% ABV Ale from Robinsons of Stockport. Four real ales are always stocked.
Last year, the Horsington Beer Festival featured 18 Cask Ales, including;
Leffe Blond Lager, Hampshire Hare, St Austell Tribute, Ringwood Bold Forrester, Grand Union Best, Butts Barbus, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Wadworth JCB, Butcombe Blond, Crouch Vale Amarillo, Dinton Chimera Red, Dorset Weymouth Best, Hydes Cloud Nine, Hidden Pint, Cottage Hop N' Drop.
Lager drinkers were not ignored with Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export and Stella Artois on tap as well as Guinness and Blackthorn Cider. House Wines are all sourced from the New World and are all available by the glass or bottle.

"Judged the best was Crouch Vales "Amarillo" and highly commended The Hidden Pint from the Hidden Brewery"


The winner of the Giant Pumpkin Competition 2004 was Andrew Dibben.

Giant Pumpkin Competition 2008

Details will appear here soon

The Half Moon Inn normally run two competitions, one for the largest pumpkin from our seeds, and a one for the best carved pumpkin faces by the children.

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Some entrants will take extreme measures to protect their entries for the Half Moon Giant Pumpkin competition!

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 The events page was last revised on: April 04, 2008


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