Sebastopol Beer Festival Review

Sebastopol Beer Festival, Sebastopol

Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

Sebastopol Beer Festival

The Sebastopol Beer Festival is held every June at the Sebastopol Social Club in south Wales. The venue is an award-winning social club just south of Pontypool. The club is spacious and welcoming. Both the staff and and regulars are happy to chat.

The festival usually has between 4 and 6 ales available and it seems that the beer festival is put on just for the locals. It’s not very well advertised and I tend to forget about it each year. The only people that seem to attend are CAMRA members and locals. It’s a pity as it’s a great festival.

Around half of the beers available

This is the third time that I’ve attended and the quality of ales on offer was excellent as always. Breweries featured were from south Wales and the rest of the UK. I was very pleased to see the newly released Thai-Bo from Otley. The beer was made by beer author Melissa Cole and was unveiled at the Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival.

Here is the full list of beers that were available:-

Otley O8
Otley Thai-Bo
Newmans Summerberry Steam
Wanstum 1381
Red Squirrel RSX
Northumberland Zig-Zag To The Onion Bag
Sawbridgeworth Dragons Blood
Tipton Toll End P.A.
Poachers Black Crow Stout
Cotleigh Albatross
Red Squirrel Colorado
Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger
Cottage Silver Arrow
Rhmney Amber
Wentworth Spring Bank
Leydon IPA

The festival was spread over two floors with the 3.5-4.5% beers located at the two upstairs bars and the stronger beers were located in the basement skittle alley. Also in the skittle alley were a selection of ciders and perries.

The beer was really well priced ranging from £2.10 – £2.70 a pint. Most were around £2.10 – £2.30. A barbecue in the large beer garden with burgers on offer for just £1.

Venue Location

Sebastopol Social Club

Wern Road

Sebastopol

NP4 5DU

Tel: 01495 763 808‎

View on Google Street View

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Beer Taster, Pub Attendee, Photo Taker

Robert Gale likes beer, pubs and beer festivals. He also likes to take photos of beer, pubs and beer festivals. Most weekends of the year you can find him travelling around the UK (and sometimes beyond) photographing and reviewing good quality pubs and beer festivals. He also has a day job in the form of a web developer for Ozum.

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So when is/was the festival then
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Forgot to add the date. It took place on June 19th.