Anyone living in the North with nowt to do next weekend (May 16th and 17th 2008) could do a lot worse than pay a visit to the Barrow Hill Roundhouse Beer and Cider “Rail Ale” Festival. It’s held in the old locomotive roundhouse and you can sup some good ciders & perries while watching the steam locos or marvelling at the huge old Deltics. Anoraks are not obligatory
Free buses run from Chesterfield BR station. Saturday afternoon is quiet, no bands, more trains…
Cider list from Ray Blockley
Cider
1 Broadoak, Moonshine (Somerset) – medium
2 Burrow Hill (Somerset) – dry
3 Crossmans (Somerset) – medium
4 Parsons Choice (Somerset) – dry
5 Rich’s (Somerset) – sweet
6 Green Valley Cyder, Vintage Farmhouse (Devon) – medium
7 Hunts (Devon) – sweet
8 Hartland (Gloucestershire) – medium
9 Prinknash Abbey (Gloucestershire) – medium
10 New Forest, Farmhouse Scrumpy (Hampshire) – dry
11 Gwatkin, Norman (Herefordshire) – medium
12 Newton Court (Herefordshire) – dry
13 Double Vision (Kent) – medium
14 Gywnt y Draig, Haymaker (Glamorgan) – medium
15 Three Cats (Derbyshire) – medium
16 Torkard 57 (Hucknall, Nottinghamshire) – medium-dry
Perry
17 Gwatkin, Oldfield (Herefordshire) – medium
18 Gwynt y Draig, Two Trees (Glamorgan) – medium
19 Ralphs (Powys) – dry
20 Hartland (Gloucestershire)
Pider!
21 Olivers (Herefordshire)
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