The Beer & Cider

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The Beers

Wychwood Hobgolblin

4.5% abv
Traditionally craft brewed with Chocolate & Crystal malts and a blend of Styrian, Goldings & Fuggles hops to produce a full-bodied, Ruby beer that delivers a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavour, balanced with a rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity, mischievous character. What's the matter Lagerboys... Afraid you might taste something?

Brakespear Oxford Gold

4.0% abv
Brakspear Oxford Gold is a remarkably zesty brew, with fresh, citrussy aromas and a firm, fruity flavour. Pale ale malts provide the beer with its gold-gilt shimmer, spruced by a hatful of crystal malts to give body, texture and a delicate honey’d wrap.

Brakespear Bitter

3.4% abv
A superb session beer. Amber in colour with a good fruit, hop and malt nose. The initial taste of malt and the well hopped bitterness quickly dissolves into a predominantly bittersweet and fruity finish.

Bank's Cereal Thriller

4.0% abv
This beer is a compelling combination of crops, with the palest barley malt, malted wheat and golden oats creating a pale beer with a complex flavour and heart-warming, hoppy ending.

Ringwood Old Thumper

5.1% abv
A Peppery, spicy aroma with hint of apples give this beer a luscious balance of grain and hop in the mouth with a bitter sweet finish with delicate fruit notes.
All this makes Old Thumper a warm, rounded yet surprisingly delicate pale strong beer.

Animal & moogBREW - Bastard Bunny Brew Ha Ha

7.2% abv

A true American style double IPA thumping in at a hefty 7.2% – very generously hopped with truckloads of American greenery – Chinook, Cascade, Columbus and Summit on pale malts.

Prescott Track Record

4.4% abv
Maris otter and crystal malts, Fuggles and Goldings hops provide the basis for our deliciously fruity best bitter. Track Record has a smooth yet slightly sweet finish which can only be achieved by adding just a hint of honey produced on the slopes of Prescott Hill Climb itself.

Prescott Seasons Spring Best

3.8% abv
Our award-winning malted mild with delicate flavours, less hops and more malt are used to achieve this traditional mild flavour. Roasted barley, Fuggles and Goldings hops are used to make this a true Great British Classic.

Prescott Hill Climb

3.8% abv
A wonderfully fruity and refreshing IPA. Cascade and Bobeck hops are combined with Maris otter pale malt and Torrified wheat to create our awarding winning session ale. SIBA voted Hill Climb its 2012 Regional & National Champion for Standard Bitters.

XT - FOUR

3.8% abv

An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European hops. Very addictive, and our flagship beer.

XT - FIFTEEN

4.5% abv
Brewed to celebrate the new varieties of English Hops. This is an English IPA triple hopped, pale amber ale with caramel malt notes, lasting floral, hop character.

Loddon Hullabaloo

4.2% abv
English Fuggles impart a dry, herby bitterness which is balanced by the distinctly biscuity flavour of Crystal and Amber malts..

Loddon Bamboozle

4.8% abv
A strong pale ale heavily hopped with English Goldings. The Pale ale malt gives the beer a clean and crisp background.

Bellingers Gallipoli

5.3% abv
Big strong Double Stout. Velvety dark chocolate aroma,hint of roast but with chocolate, fudge and vanilla. It is named in commemoration of the First World War, Brewers Great Grandfather was at Gallipoli

Bellingers Blenheim

3.9% abv
A clean testing , dark straw coloured bitter, with balanced sweetness using fuggles hops.

Hook Norton Lion

4.0% abv
Lion is perfectly balanced, fresh and fruity. A blend of four malts and four hops gives a slightly sweet taste and a wonderful aroma of dark fruit.

Hook Norton Old Hooky

4.6% abv

A beautifully balanced beer, fruity by nature, with a well-rounded body and the suggestive echo of Crystal Malt.

Hook Norton Hooky Mild

2.8% abv
A dark chestnut coloured ale, full of roast malt flavours, and complemented with superb dry-hop aromas from East Kent Goldings.

Shotover Scholar

4.5% abv
A classic English premium bitter – mid copper in colour and deep and complex in flavour. Dry hopped.

Shotover Trinity

4.2% abv
A modern extra pale ale – pale gold in colour with an intense citrus and grapefruit hop character and a dry finish. Dry hopped. CAMRA Champion Beer of Oxfordshire 2014/15

Battledown Four Kings

7.2% abv
Nothing subtle here! This is a blockbuster of a beer, lots of everything and then some more. Heady aroma, full taste – full on!

Force EPHEMERAL TAN

4.5% abv
EPHEMERAL TAN is a hearty bronzed ale at 4.5%, with a touch of caramel and a spiciness on the palate from the Crystal Malt and the Challenger hop. As the name suggests, it's unlikely to linger.

North Cotswold Shagweaver

4.5% abv
SIBA Wales and West bottled Golden Ales bronze 2014 /CAMRA Warwickshire Beer of the Year 2013 3rd. A pale hoppy refreshing ale made with New Zealand hops. Appeals to both ale and lager drinkers, also great with spicy food.

Goffs Camelot

4.4% abv
A full bodied dark amber beer with a ruby glow. Malt dominates underscored with a hoppy bitterness

Cotswold Lion Shepard's Delight

3.6% abv
One of those lovely light ales, crisp and full of citrousy flavours. A perfect Summer Session Beer!

Cotswold Lion Hogget

3.8% abv
A copper coloured Best Bitter. Fruit, light on the citrus with a hint of spice.

Loose Cannon Abingdon Bridge

4.1% abv

Traditional with a modern twist. Our first and still most popular brew. A copper hue belies the floral aroma of this thirst quenching beer

Loose Cannon Pale Ale

3.7% abv

The classic British combination of Fuggles and Goldings hops give this beer a distinctly earthy characteristic whilst remaining refreshing with a pleasant bitter finish leaving you wanting more

Loose Cannon English Brown Ale

3.9% abv
Our Ale for April Wholesome, nutty, slight caramel sweetness, with modest earthy hop flavour and bitterness –and of course very brownlike all good beer should be.A quaffable concoction if ever there was one.

Old Bog Blonde N Bitter

4.8% abv
A full flavoured, full bodied light beer with fruity after notes (makes me want a pint right now !)

Cats Tabby

4.2% abv
There is nothing ordinary about our amber ale. A refreshing & fruity reward to help you forget about the rat-race

Hepworth Pullman

4.2% abv
A First Class bitter with a crisp fresh bite balanced with a long silky finish. Long on flavour with a good hop nose, A luxurious ale to be appreciated on its own or with fine food. Brewed using Admiral & Golding hops.

Hepworth Prospect

4.5% abv
Traditionally brewed using organically grown malt and Admiral & Golding organic hops. This gives a good bitter character balanced by a small amount of crystal malt. A delicious pint – beer as it would have been a century ago!

Wychwood Car-beer-eta

3.6% abv
First brewed especially for the Twin Town Challenge 2014, an event that saw 50 cars costing £500 travel to Witney’s twin town of Le Touquet to raise money for SpecialEffect.

Wychwood Hobgoblin Gold

4.2% abv
The latest beer carrying the little fella’s moniker, and while Gold might be lighter in colour, it’s definitely no lightweight. A combination of six hop varieties (yes six!) & an infusion of wheat and malted barley has resulted in the perfect golden beer – with a huge hop punch.

Wychwood Single Hop US Belma

4.0% abv
Belma is a very clean hop, with orange, tropical, pineapple, strawberry, melon and some grapefruit characters. Pineapple flavours accompany subtle strawberry, melon and citrus notes. Aroma wise the hops lends strawberry jam backed with citrus.

Wychwood Fiddlers Elbow

3.9% abv
Lighter style wheat infused ale. The addition of the choicest English Wheat malt complements the flavoursome Styrian Goldings hops. The end result is a wonderful combination of citrus and floral aroma, with tart citric fruit flavours and a long hoppy fruity finish. A wonderfully refreshing beer

Banks Black Diamond

4.0% abv
Black Diamond is quite a conundrum. Dark in colour, yet light in palate, rich yet refreshing, the looks of a Stout, but very much a Bitter, hints of dark malt, but with a blast of aromatic hops. Seeing isn't believing - but tasting is!!

White Horse Black Horse Porter

5.0% abv
Black Horse Porter now joins the ‘stable’ of hearty beers from the White Horse Brewery. Full-bodied in taste, this rich, dark porter has a pleasing balance of roasted grain leaving you with a smooth, fruity aftertaste and a slight bitterness of the finest Kent hops.

White Horse Blowing Stone

4.2% abv
This famous Stone stands below the White Horse in the Village of Kingston Lisle. It is said that ‘he who can blow the stone shall be king’. So we have made a beer fit for a king, using only the finest English Pale malt & amber malt to produce a real traditional brown beer, hopped with great English Bramling Cross and Challenger.

White Horse Guv'nor

6.5% abv
The Guv’nor has been created to give those drinkers who want a light-coloured beer above the standard ABV! Along with Yorkshires finest pale malt and a touch of wheat, buckets of hops – four different varieties in fact – give it an unmistakable flavour and taste.

White Horse Village Idiot

4.1% abv
Brewed in honour of the ‘Village Idiot’ who stands at every bar in the land, dispensing pearls of wisdom such as “the waters not that deep – it only comes halfway up the ducks.” Whilst they seem a little off-the-wall they often know what to drink! This golden beer uses an idiotic amount of fresh hops to create a refreshingly clean bitter beer, with fine pale malt and a touch of wheat for a fine balance.

Appleford Power Station

4.2% abv
A lighter copper coloured beer with a noticeably malty bitterness.

Appleford Brightwell Gold

4.0% abv
A light, refreshing, Golden ale made with wheat and Goldings hops, making it easy to drink and thirst quenching

Turpin Golden Citrus

4.2% abv
Award winning golden ale steeped with Yakima Valley American hops for a powerful citrus taste.

Turpin Mandarian Bavaria

4.6% abv
Orange gold ale with mandarin notes in the aroma and palette

Donnington Cotswold Gold

4.0% abv
Look - Golden, Nose - Fruity, Hoppy, Flavour - Rich Cirtus

Ciders & Perry's

Gwynt Y Ddraig Dog Dancer

6.5% abv

Produced from bittersweet cider apples blended with a true sharp cider apple, it is a light straw coloured cider with a medium, smooth crisp, slightly sharp characteristic.

Gwynt Y Ddraig Two Trees Perry

4.5%
A pale, fruity Perry with an aroma of fruit and a hint of honey on the palate.

Thatchers Green Goblin

6.0% abv
Made with Somerset apples, and matured in the oak, Green Goblin cider is a full-flavoured, bittersweet blend, beautifully balanced to give a fresh chara

Virtual Orchard Saxon Aelle

5.5% abv
This is a fruity medium dry cider with a real tang. Made from five early varieties of apple. Aelle was the first king of the South Saxons and, with his three sons, famously did battle with the Britons on a regular basis and won. Upon returning to his home after battle we're sure he would have loved to sit back and enjoy a glass of this fine traditional cider.