THE Wetherspoon’s 12-day real ale spring festival is returning in just a few weeks with some pints down to less than £2.
From March 6 punters will get the chance to sample a range of 30 different real ales including five from overseas brewers.
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The festival will run for 12 days from Wednesday 6 March to Sunday 17 March.
Wetherspoons fans will get the opportunity to sample beers from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Taiwan and the USA.
Many food lovers will be pleased to know the festival will include vegan and vegetarian options.
Vegan (also suitable for vegetarians), as well as gluten-free beers, will be available you can find these using the allergen information screens in all pubs or on the app and the website.
This year spoons fans can expect exciting new flavours with the festival featuring a range of malt and hop varieties as well as beers with ingredients such as chocolate and vanilla.
Below is a full list of real ales that will be available at the festival:
- Spring Frenzy (Daleside Brewery) 3.4% ABV
- Skip Intro (Exmoor Ales) 4.0 ABV
- Five Generations 5G (Batemans Brewery) 4.2% ABV
- Ask Twice (Moorhouse’s Brewery) 3.8% ABV
- Grizzly Bear IPA (Shepherd Neame) 6.0% ABV
- Disco Macaw (Redpoint Brewing, Taiwan) 4.5% ABV
- Crafty Fox (Hook Norton Brewery) 4.4% ABV
- Evergreen (Sambrook’s Brewery) 4.3% ABV
- Otter Dark (Otter Brewery) 3.8% ABV
- Atlantic Red (Theakston Brewery) 4.3% ABV
- Bite the Bullet! (Oakham Ales) 5.0% ABV
- Bingo Lady (The Lost Abbey Brewing Company, USA) 5.0% ABV
- Aquila (Saltaire Brewery) 4.5% ABV
- Kodiak (Mad Squirrel Brewery) 4.7% ABV
- Magnus (Redemption Brewery) 5.0% ABV
- Butcombe Brewers Strength Original (Butcombe Brewery) 4.8% ABV
- Parts and Labour (Rooster’s Brewery) 5.4% ABV
- Red Dragon (Brains Brewery) 5.0% ABV
- Copper and Stars (JW Lees Brewery) 5.6% ABV
- Lairig Brew (Cairngorm Brewery,) 4.0% ABV
- Boulder Beach (Orkney Brewery) 4.4% ABV
- Jester (Adnams Brewery) 4.8% ABV
- Chocolate & Vanilla Stout (Titanic Brewery) 4.5% ABV
- Liberation Guernsey Street (Liberation Brewery) 4.6% ABV
- White Stout (Nethergate Brewery) 4.5% ABV
- King Dark Tide (Greene King Brewery) 4.7% ABV
- Chocolate Ale (Leikeim Brewery, Altenkunstadt, Germany) 5.6% ABV
- Parts and Labour (Rooster’s Brewery) 5.4% ABV
- Germain (Brouwerij De Bock, Belgium) 3.5% ABV
- Roasted Nuts (Rebellion Brewery) 4.6% ABV
- Falstaff (Birrificio Gregorio, Italy) 4.8% ABV
Beer connoisseurs will be able to see tasting notes on all the beers as part of the festival programme, which will be free to pick up from pubs.
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A digital version will also be available on the free Wetherspoons app and its website.
Wetherspoons has confirmed that 50 pubs will be selling pints in the beer festival for £1.99.
The rest will be setting their prices around £2.49 a pint.
Three third-of-a-pint tasters will also be available for the price of a pint.
The pub chain has said that prices and savings will vary from pub to pub so make sure you check at the bar before ordering.
Marketing manager Jen Swindells said: “The festival is a great celebration of real ale.
“It will allow us, during a 12-day period, to showcase a selection of value-for-money beers, including those from overseas.
“It will also give our customers the opportunity to enjoy several beers which have not previously been available in the pubs, as well as those brewed especially for the festival.”
Ways to save at Wetherspoons
Every year, Spoons holds its Tax Equality Day to highlight the benefits of a permanently reduced tax bill for the pub industry.
It usually takes place in September, and last year it fell on Thursday, September 14.
As well as its Spring festival, Wetherspoons also holds a 12-day Real Ale Festival every Autumn.
Wetherspoons is known for its meal deal offers that run all week long.
These include Tuesday’s Steak Club, the Thursday Curry Club and Fish Friday.
For example, a standard curry club meal with an alcoholic drink is between £8.55 and £9.19.
Outside of the deal, you would expect to pay around a fiver more for the same meal.
You can enjoy bottomless brews all day in participating Wetherspoons pubs by buying one hot drink.
The offer includes Tetley tea and a range of Lavazza coffee including a flat white, latte, cappuccino, and Americano.
Prices start from just 99p but they can vary depending on your location.
We have put together a full list of participating Wetherspoons so you can check if your local offers the deal.
You can see where your nearest Spoons is by using the chain’s pub searching tool on its website
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