Beer & Balls Festival, 24-25 April, Bradway

First Beer and Balls Festival at Moorview Golf Centre. Bradway, Sheffied, S17 4QU.

Over 20 Cask Ales plus 2 Ciders and a Perry

Golf Competition on Saturday

Admission including glass £5 (CAMRA members with card £2)

Welcome everybody!

More details about this event here http://beerandballs.co.uk/

The final beer list is ready. http://beerandballs.co.uk/beerlist.html

I might nip along and share some strawberry cider. I'm ambidextrous when it comes to golf and have some left and right handed clubs to test out.

Should be a good one, as a local I'll be spending some time there (you will find me around the CAMRA membership stand if not the bar). It's easy to get to as the 76 bus stops right outside (buses 25/25A/53/293/M17 are all nearby too) and it's for a good cause, raising funds for Greenhill Scouts.

A nice selection of real ales, and if you drink cider and haven't tried the Woodthorpe Hall Cider, which is made a couple of miles up the road in Holmesfield, it packs a punch!

Beer list

Brewery Beer Style ABV

The Brew Company Slaker Bitter 3.8%

The Brew Company Best Bitter Bitter 4.2%

Ashover Brewery Rainbows End Bitter 4.5%

Ashover Brewery Coffin Lane Stout Stout 5.0%

Abbeydale Moonshine Bitter 3.9%

Abbeydale Absolution Bitter 5.3%

Magpie Brewery Fledging Bitter 3.8%

Magpie Brewery Midnight Porter Porter 5.0%

Spire Darkside of the Moon Mild 4.3%

Spire Overture Session bitter 3.9%

White Rose Stiarway to Heaven Bitter 3.8%

White Rose Name the Beer Chocolate 4.3%-4.5%

Thornbridge Lord Marples Bitter 4.0%

Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%

Kelham Island Easy Rider Bitter 4.3%

Oakwell Brewery Barnsley Bitter Bitter 3.4%

Oakwell Brewery Old Tom Mild 3.4%

Crown Brewery HPA Bitter 3.9%

Crown Brewery Middlewood Mild Mild 3.8%

Sheffield Brewery Co Blanco Blond Bitter 4.2%

Sheffield Brewery Co Crucible Best Bitter 3.8%

Ufford not confirmed Bitter 5.2%

Ufford Nirvana Bitter 5.7%

Cider and Perry list

Woodthorpe Owd Barker Medium Cider 6.5%

Parsons Parsons Dry Dry Cider 6.5%

Broadoak Broadoak Moonshine Perry 7.5%

Festival fringe - once you've had enough at the beer festival, why not try the local pubs. Saturday night the Castle Inn has the Frank White Band on, and the Bradway Hotel has a tapas night. If you are doing a daytime session, why not do a bus crawl on the M17. This minibus runs around the area every hour and will drop you outside the following pubs that serve real ale: White Swan, Greenhill; White Hart, Greenhill; Bradway Hotel, Bradway; Castle Inn, Bradway; Old Mother Redcap, Bradway; Devonshire Arms, Dore; Hare & Hounds, Dore. Also walkable from the bus route are the pubs in Totley - Fleur de Lys, Crown and Cricket Inn.

its this weekend! In a tent in Bradway! Looking forward to it.

It opens tonight, 5pm. I'll be on the CAMRA stand, come and say hello! (If not on my stand I'm probably in a local pub!)

On again today, which is the last day, and full beer and cider range still available at opening time all at £1.20 per half.

Today also features a golf competition!

Food available all day with burgers and sausage sarnies off the BBQ, also jacket potatoes and ploughmans lunches available.

Should be a nice day, what better way to spend it than sat outside drinking beer?!