25th Cambridge Beer Festival

Celebrating 25 Years of CAMRA Beer Festivals

Beer, Cider & Perry List

Final version with results of voting, 24-May-1998.

Draught Beer - Bottled Beer - Cider - Perry

Draught Beer

Beers marked (thus) didn't arrive.

Abbeydale: Moonshine 4.3% * Category: Best Bitter 1st=; Absolution 5.3%
Adnams: Regatta 4.3%; Extra 4.3%
Archers: Golden Bitter 4.7%
B&T: Dragonslayer 4.5%; Edwin Taylor's Stout 4.5% * Category: Porter & Stout 2nd
Batemans: Dark Mild 3.0%; XB 3.7%; Hill Billy 4.2%; Salem Porter 4.7%; XXXB 4.8%
Belhaven: 60/- Mild 2.9%; 80/- 4.2%
Berrow: 4B's 3.8%
Border: Farne Island 4.0%
Bunces: Sign of Spring 4.6%; Old Smokey 5.0%
Burntisland: Alexander's Downfall 4.3%; Dockyard Rivets 5.1% (Pilsner-style lager)
Butcombe: Bitter 4.0%; Wilmot's Premium Ale 4.8%
Caledonian: Porter 4.1% * Category: Porter & Stout 1st; Golden Promise 5.0%
Carlsberg Tetley: Ind Coope Burton Ale 4.8%
City of Cambridge: Jet Black 3.7% * Category: Mild 1st * Category: Overall 1st - Champion Beer of the Festival; True Blue 3.8% * Category: Bitter 1st=; Hobson's Choice 4.1%; Atom Splitter 4.7% * Category: Old Ales/Stong Milds 1st= * Category: Overall 2nd=; Bramling Traditional 5.4%
Cottage: Champflower 4.2% * Category: Best Bitter 1st= * Category: Overall 2nd=; Great Western Real Ale 5.4% * Category: Strong Bitter 1st=
Deeping: Red 4.1%
Elgoods: Black Dog Mild 3.6%; Cambridge 3.8%; Golden Newt 4.6%
Everards (beers on cooler): Mild 3.3%; Beacon Bitter 3.8%; Tiger 4.2%; (Old Original 5.2%)
Exmoor: Fox; Gold 4.8%
Federation: Buchanan's Best Bitter 3.6%
Fenland: Fenland Brewery Bitter 4.0%; Smokestack Lightning 4.2%; Doctor's Orders 5.0%
Frog Island: Fuggled Frog 3.5%; Natterjack 4.8%
Fullers: London Pride 4.1%
Grainstore: Gold 4.5%; Ten Fifty 5.0% * Category: Strong Bitters 1st=
Hampshire: Hampshire Hog 3.7%; (Arthur Pendragon 4.8%)
Hesket Newmarket: (Blencathra 3.8%)
Harviestoun: Original 80/- 4.2%; Schiehallion 4.8% (lager) * Category: Speciality 2nd=
Hop Back: Entire Stout 4.5%; Thunderstorm 4.8% (wheat) * Category: Speciality 1st * Category: Overall 2nd=; Summer Lightning 5.0%
Hoskins: Churchill's Pride 4.2%
Iceni: Fine Soft Day 4.0%; Gold 5.0%
Inveralmond: Independence 3.8%; Lia Fail 4.7% ("The Stone of Destiny")
Jennings: Cumberland Ale 4.0%; Cocker Hoop 4.8%
Leatherbritches: Belt & Braces 3.8%; Screaming Billy Bitter 4.5%; Scrum Down Mild 5.3% * Category: Old Ales/Strong Milds 1st=
Maclay: Broadsword 3.8%
Mauldons: Maybee 3.7%; Midsummer Gold 4.0%
Mordue: (Geordie Pride 4.2%); (Radgie Gadgie 4.8%)
Morland: Ruddles County 4.8%
Nethergate: Priory Mild 3.8% * Category: Mild 2nd; Umbel Ale 3.8%; Goldengate 4.5%; Umbel Magna Ale 5.5%
Oakham: JHB 3.8% * Category: Bitter 1st= * Category: Overall 2nd=; Steamy Affair 4.2%; Five Leaves Left 4.5% * Category: Best Bitter 1st=; Helter Skelter 5.0% * Category: Speciality 2nd
John O'Gaunt Brewing Co.: Point To Point 3.6%; Copped Oak 4.4%
Orkney: The Red MacGregor 4.0%; Dark Island 4.6%
Parish: Somerby Premium 4.0%; 25th Cambridge Festival Ale 6.0%
Shepherd Neame: Spitfire Premium Ale 4.7%
Smiles: Mayfly 4.5%
Taylor: Landlord 4.3%
Whitbread: Flowers IPA 3.8%; Castle Eden 4.2%
Woolf: Coyote 4.2%; Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%; Woild Moild 4.8%
Woodfordes: Wherry 3.8%; Great Eastern Ale 4.3%