When: Now until Wednesday 6th June
Where: The Anchor, Bradford Street, Digbeth
The CAMRA Award winning Anchor is holding it’s 70th beer festival during the Jubilee weekend to celebrate 60 years on the throne!
As in previous festivals, buy any 6 pints of ale and get one pint free; once your card has six stamps, please vote for your favourite ales from the festival menu, which entitles you to a free pint! Blank or spoilt cards will not be accepted.
The Anchor then uses this voting information to ensure they bring back the most popular beers. The festival menu is below (* denotes festival special):
Angel Ales – West Midlands
Royale – 5.1% – Premium golden bitter with hints of orange.
Batemans Brewery – Lincolnshire
Jewel In The Crown – 4.5% – full bodied, ruby coloured beer.
Brewshed Brewery – Suffolk
Spring – 3.6% – A light, fresh, delicate extra pale ale.
Church End Brewery – Warwickshire
Lubilee Jubilee – 3.9% – Very pale, lightly hopped and citrusy.
* Red
* White 4.1% – Each one a hoppy ale to celebrate the Jubilee.
* And Blue
Coastal Brewery – Cornwall
* 60+ – 4.5% – Premium gold and hoppy ale.
* Jubilee Plus – 3.6% – Pale well hopped ale using American Hops.
Dark Star Brewery – West Sussex
Hophead – 3.8% – Pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Gargoyles Brewery – Devon
Dawlish Pale – 5.0% – Premium, moderately hopped pale ale.
Gidleys Brewery – Devon
Dartmoor Valley – 4.0% – SIBA Best Bitter award winner.
Grafters Brewery – Lincolnshire
Golden – 4.3% – Straw coloured beer with a slightly bitter finish.
Imperial Brewery – South Yorkshire
Jubilee Bitter – 4.2% – A commemorative ale from this brewery.
Itchen Valley – Hampshire
One Of Those – 4.4% – German and USA hops creating an amber English bitter.
Magpie Brewery – Nottinghamshire
Royal Salute Ale – 4.1% – Copper, Fruity and Malty, fit for a Queen!
Mallinsons Brewery – West Yorkshire
Citra – 3.8% – A pale ale, grapefruit and mango nose, bitter hoppy taste.
Medieval Brewery – Nottinghamshire
Courtly Love – 4.7% – Chocolate porter with delicate vanilla flavours.
Navigation Brewery – Nottinghamshire
Golden – 4.3% – Medium-bodied, clean-tasting, refreshing ale.
Stout – 4.4% – Robust stout with liquorice, roast almonds and chocolate.
Oates Brewery – West Yorkshire
Golden Oat – 3.8% – Full bodied ale with hints of caramel and honey.
OMT – 4.1% – Light and refreshing session ale, softly hopped.
Old Cannon Brewery – Suffolk
Rusty Gun – 4.0% – Hops hit first with a smooth finish.
Patriot Brewery – Warwickshire
Queens Land Jubilee Pale – 5.0% – Premium golden ale.
Peakstones Brewery – Staffordshire
Dimmingsdale Blonde – 4.5% – Lightly hopped with a dry finish.
Rat Brewery – West Yorkshire
King Rat – 5.0% – A beer that is all about the hops!
Rat Hole – 4.3% – Pale and intensely fruity bitter.
White Rat – 4.0% – Very pale hoppy ale, intensely aromatic finish.
Raw Brewery – Derbyshire
Citra – 4.4%- Hoppy special,strong fruity hop aroma and flavour.
Dark Peak – 4.5%- Easy drinking stout with plenty of malt flavours.
Salamander Brewery – West Yorkshire
Her Majesties Pleasure – 4.2% – A golden well hopped ale.
Salopian Brewery – Shropshire
Monkey Business – 5.2% – Pale ale and light on the palate.
Saltaire Brewery – West Yorkshire
Blackberry Cascade – 4.8% – Floral aromas and strong bitterness.
Staffordshire Brewery
Double Sunset Ale – 5.0% – Well balanced amber ale with a hint of citrus.
Staithes Brewery – North Yorkshire
Whitby Beach – 3.8% – Golden, light refreshing, thirst quenching ale.
Steel City Brewery – South Yorkshire
Draconian Times – 5.2% – Pale and very bitter with big tropical fruit flavour.
Strathaven Ales – Lanarkshire
Midnight Walk – 4.0% – An amber, moderately hopped refreshing ale.
Tetleys – Northamptonshire
Hop and Glory – 4.5% – Full Bodied, Hint of peardrops, hoppy finish.
Welbeck Abbey Brewery – Nottinghamshire
Henrietta – 3.6% – Delicate golden ale with a fresh hop aroma.
Wharfebank Brewery – West Yorkshire
Tether Blond – 4.1% – A straw coloured American hopped beer.
White Rose Brewery – South Yorkshire
60 Years On The Throne – 4.2% – Pale and Hoppy, sweet finish.
Whitworth Brewery – West Midlands
* Dry Hopped version of Sobriety – 4.0% – Golden beer , dry hopped with cascade.
Windsor and Eton – Berkshire
Kohinoor Jubilee – 4.5% – A classic Indies Pale Ale. A light, dry bitter.
XT Brewery – Buckinghamshire
53 – 4.2% – A hoppy, pale celebration ale.
At arranged times the Anchor will supplement the bar beers by bringing beers directly from the cellar. There are more beers on stillage in the side room but these beers do not qualify for a stamp.
CHEERS!
* Denotes festival special
