Egham Summer Beer Festival 2011 - Roundup

Well, that’s Egham Beer Festival over until the next time. As usual, it was thoroughly enjoyable festival despite inclement weather on the two days I visited. I managed to get most of the beers that I wanted to try and only missed out on a few, mainly because they had not come on by the time I left on Saturday night. I’m pleased to say that, although there were a few that were not entirely to my personal taste, the beers were nearly all of a extremely high standard with no real duffers, covered a wide range of styles and in were generally in very good shape – something that can be difficult to achieve at a beer festival. So many thanks, once again, to Bob Inman and the team for their sterling work. The next festival commences on Thursday 3^rd November and runs until Sunday 6^th. Unfortunately, I will only be able to visit on the first day because I will be heading for Lewes, and it’s bonfire celebrations, for the weekend. Before I move on from Egham, I’ve not been able to resist picking out some particular favourites so a list of my “awards” (no they aren’t worth anything) follows: -

	DARK BEERS
	Winner	Ascot Last of the Blue Devils Imperial Stout (Cherry)
	Runner Up	Canterbury Street Light Porter
	Runner Up	Sherfield Village Pioneer Stout
	Highly commended	Betjeman Sebastopol
	Highly commended	Rectory Mild Pilgrimage
	Honourable mention	Old Forge Old Ted
	PALE BEERS
	Winner	Wayland's Sixpenny Rushmore Gold
	Runner up	Westerham Hop Rocket American Pale Ale
	Runner up	Ascot Single Hop Apollo
	Highly commended	Black Cat Hopsmack
	Highly commended	Complete Pig Hallacre Gold
	Highly commended	Byatts Phoenix Gold
	Highly commended	Kent Club Cascade
	Honourable mention	Ascot Single Hop Sorachi Ace
	Honourable mention	Bingham Outer Space Hoppy IPA
	Honourable mention	Canterbury Haka
	Honourable mention	Devilfish That Gold Devil
	Honourable mention	Brewshed Pale Ale
	BITTERS
	Winner	Rectory Rector's Celebration
	Runner Up	Halfpenny Anniversary Ale
	Honourable mention	Black Cat Original
	Honourable mention	Brewshed Best Bitter
	Honourable mention	Devilfish Devil Best
	Honourable mention	Longdog Brindle Bitter
	SPECIALITY / OTHER
	Winner	Surrey Hills Greensand IPA
	Runner Up	Byatt's Urban Red
	Highly commended	Sherfield Village Solo Quintessential
	Highly commended	Old Dairy Heiferweizen
	Highly commended	Westerham Bohemian Rhapsody
	Honourable mention	Ascot Red IPA
	Honourable mention	Havant The 7 Pointer
	Honourable mention	Loddon In Yer Face American IPA
	Honourable mention	Canterbury Summer Wheat

You can find my full reviews for all these beers at RateBeer. Or, if you want to see a compendium of my (briefer) reviews of all the beers I tried at the festival, not just my top picks, head to Egham Beer Festival Summer 2011 – Tasting notes & Reviews