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Real Ale and Pie Festival
This years dates: 2/3/4/5 May 2008
Last year's 8th Annual Smugglers' Real Ale and Pie Festival
took place over the May Bank Holiday weekend and was again a fun
packed, ale fueled, pie eating extravaganza! This wonderful 16th
century thatched inn, located just outside of Newquay, nestles in
the heart of the Cornish countryside, with a beer garden, family
room, children's play area and ample parking. This is the perfect
location in which to enjoy the festival with everything needed in fact
to make this years Real Ale and Pie Festival the best yet!
The 4 day event started on Friday 4th May with a fantastic and varied selection of real ales, homemade pies and delicious food available all day, with live entertainment from local performers. There was over 50 different real ales, some brewed especially for the pub and a vast selection of pies to choose from. The Smugglers kitchen team managed to make over a hundred pies for the festival ranging from a selection of hot and cold pies including steak and ale, chicken and leek, game, vegetarian quiches and Mrs Hancock's renowned Cornish Homity Pie.
Building on it's success over the last few years we found it necessary to increase the marquee size to accommodate the ever growing festival providing us with another bar to hold the many barrels of ale and local Cornish ciders too. The splendid marquee, adjacent to the pub, was a perfect venue for all the live entertainment from live jazz to traditional Cornish folk. Day and night, the music played, the ale flowed and appetites were satisfied. Whether you sat back, soaked up the sun or danced the weekend away we hope you had a fantastic time and if you missed out then be sure to join us this year for an even bigger and better festival!
The Smugglers Den Inn Real Ale and Pie Festival 2007.
| Brewery | Ale | A.B.V | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Thornbridge |
Wild Swan | 3.5 % |
| 2. | Elgood’s | Black Dog Mild | 3.6 % |
| 3. | Archers | Village | 3.6 % |
| 4. | Wood’s | Quaff | 3.7 % |
| 5. | Wells & Young | Young’s bitter | 3.7 % |
| 6. | Harviestoun | Bitter and Twisted | 3.8 % |
| 7. | Cotleigh | Tawny | 3.8 % |
| 8. | Oakham | J.H.B | 3.8 % |
| 9. | Skinners | Ginger Tosser | 3.8 % |
| 10. | Sharps | Cornish Coaster | 3.8 % |
| 11. | Mauldon’s | May Ale | 3.9 % |
| 12. | Coach House | Farrier’s Best | 3.9 % |
| 13. | Hook Norton | 303AD | 4.0 % |
| 14. | Hall and Woodhouse Badger | 1st Gold | 4.0 % |
| 15. | Timothy Taylor | Best Bitter | 4.0 % |
| 16. | High Gate | Bee Zone | 4.0 % |
| 17. | Wickwar Brand | Oak Bitter | 4.0 % |
| 18. | Wadworth | Summersault | 4.0 % |
| 19. | Mallard | Quacker Jack | 4.0 % |
| 20. | Sharps | Doom Bar Bitter | 4.0 % |
| 21. | Rebellion | Smuggler | 4.1 % |
| 22. | Titanic | Anchor | 4.1 % |
| 23. | Summerskills | Hopscotch | 4.1 % |
| 24. | Moorhouses | Pride of Pendle | 4.1 % |
| 25. | Caledonian | Top Banana Ale | 4.1 % |
| 26. | Coastal Brewery | Angelina | 4.1 % |
| 27. | Nethergate | Bone Shaker | 4.2 % |
| 28. | Salamander | Mud Puppy | 4.2 % |
| 29. | Skinners | Perle Ale | 4.2 % |
| 30. | Skinners | Smugglers’ Ale | 4.2 % |
| 31. | St Austell | Tribute | 4.2 % |
| 32. | Archers | Six Hop | 4.2 % |
| 33. | St Austell | Reservoir Ale | 4.3 % |
| 34. | Milk Street | Amarillo | 4.3 % |
| 35. | Countrylife | Pot Wallop | 4.4 % |
| 36. | Leatherbritches | Belter | 4.4 % |
| 37. | O’Kells | Mac Lir | 4.4 % |
| 38. | Goose eye | Golden Goose | 4.5 % |
| 39. | Wheatwood | Old Dog | 4.5 % |
| 40. | Doghouse |
Seadog I.P.A | 4.6 % |
| 41. | Lizard Ales | Frenchmans Creek | 4.6 % |
| 42. | Goffs | White Night | 4.7 % |
| 43. | St Peters | Grapefruit | 4.7 % |
| 44. | Sharps | Tarquin’s Tipple | 4.8 % |
| 45. | Hopback | Summer Lightning | 5.0 % |
| 46. | O’Hanlon’s | Royal Oak | 5.0 % |
| 47. | Spinning Dog | Mutt’s Nuts | 5.0 % |
| 48. | Organic Brew | Charlie’s Pride | 5.3 % |
| 49. | St Austell | Old Empire | 5.7 % |
| 50. | Otter Brewery | Otter Head | 5.8 % |
| 51. | Blue Anchor | Spingo Special | 6.7 % |
| 52. | Woodfordes | Head Cracker | 7.0 % |