The Wetherspoon chain are hosting their Spring real ale festival from 5 to 16 March, featuring a range of 30 beers which include some special one off beers that are a collaboration with 5 different international breweries.
As International Women’s Day falls during the real ale festival, all 5 collaborations are with female brewers (or brewsters to use the correct term!).
The international beers are Wallaby (Penny Red, Australia), Estuary Session Ale (Land & Sea, Canada), Chocolate Porter (Birra Perugia, Italy), Antipodean (Brew Moon, New Zealand) and Hey Pal (Terrapin, USA).
Among others, the festival line-up also includes Boudicca (Brains), Persephone (Brewster’s), Vienna (Harviestoun), Beerhart (Mad Squirrel), Gulpa (Redemption) and Alpha Female (Rooster’s).
Marketing manager Jen Swindells said: “The festival is a great celebration of real ale.
“It will allow us, over a 12-day period, to showcase a selection of superb value-for-money beers, including those from brewers as far afield as Canada and New Zealand, as well as those closer to home.
As none of the pubs have as many as 30 guest ale pumps you won’t find all the festival beers on the bar at the same time, they will be offered on rotation, however the 10 branches across Sheffield will be co-ordinating their festival launch so all 30 will be on somewhere in Sheffield on day one – see the table below for their intentions!
