We’re really excited to be back on the festival circuit with two of the best music and beer festivals in the country.

First up there is Oakfest 16 on 11th June. This is an amazing 11 hours of family fun with non-stop music from top local bands and artists. We will be setting up and running the bar with a great range of beers from local breweries and other popular drinks to suit all tastes. This is the third year the festival has run and it just goes from strength to strength. We are very proud to be sponsoring this superb event.
More info is on www.cuatoakfest.co.uk

The following month, on 2nd July, sees the Haddenham Summerfest beer festival which justifiably lays claim to being the biggest one day festival in the country. This year we will be looking at providing 150 (Yes! One Hundred and Fifty) firkins of carefully selected ales from our fabulous local breweries and, of course, some of the wonderful smaller breweries from across the country together with lagers, craft ales, wines, Pimms, craft gins, cocktails and anything else we can think of! The festival starts at 11am and, once again, there will be all day music from top local bands. A fine array of Artisan food stalls will provide the nourishment. Again, we are very proud to be sponsoring this festival.
See www.haddenham-beer-festival.co.uk

We’d love to see you at one, or both, of these family friendly festivals. Maria and I will be hard at work on both ensuring the smooth running of the bars. It’s something we love doing so please come and say hello – we’d love to hear from you!

Hello All,

First of all I have to apologise for the lack of updates last year – we were unbelievably busy and barely got time to think let alone update the website!

Anyway, 2016 dawns and it’s going to be fun! We already have quite a number of weddings, parties and festivals booked in – if you’re thinking of a ‘do’ then please get in touch asap as the diary is filling up.

Last year we met a lot of lovely people and made some excellent contacts with new drinks producers – we’d love to introduce them to you as well so, whatever your event and whatever your requirements, we’re sure we can find just the thing you need. Just ask!

Have a great year and we look forward to seeing you!

P&M

Hi all,

Just a quick update after the frenetic activities at the Haddenham Beer Festival last month.

For those who didn’t make it, we got through around 100 real ales and over 50 ciders plus gallons of Lager, Pimms and wine. For those who did make it – have you recovered yet? 🙂

Well, let’s hope you have because we’re back at Vale Harvest in Haddenham this Saturday, 2^nd August and do we have a treat for you!

With scant regard for life and limb I ventured into deepest, darkest, Oxfordshire looking for more quality ales and cider to tickle your taste buds.

I’m pleased to say the escapade was a complete success and, on top of our regular local breweries, we can now offer you 4 excellent ales from the Shotover Brewery and a range of Hitchcox ciders from the Orchard Cottage Cider Company (they are so far off the beaten track it actually took me 2 trips to find them!) These ciders are made with entirely natural ingredients, no artificial sugars or flavours – fabulous!

Maria and I would love to see you on Saturday – please drop by for a chat and, if you went, let us know what you thought of the Beer Festival (and, if you didn’t go I want a note to say why!)

Cheers and Beers,

Pete

It’s that time of year again- the Haddenham Summerfest Beer Festival is less than two weeks away!

Pretty much everything else has stopped now while Maria and I work on getting 100 – yes, 100 – barrels of beer lined up for your delictation. That’s 900 gallons, or 7200 pints. And it will all go in one day!

But just in case you’re still thirsty we’ve also sourced craft lager, local & distant ciders and delicious wines. There’s something for everyone.

Make a date, July 5th 2014 – see haddenham-beer-festival.co.uk for more information or listen to Summerfest Radio on 87.9 fm or live stream at www.summerfestradio.co.uk

See you there!

Cheers,

Pete the Beer Bloke

After a few hectic weeks we are looking forward to some of our regular markets, Thame, Vale Harvest and a new quarterly market in Kingham.  So if you fancy a nice drive out on Sunday why not come over and see what is going on www.thecotswoldtable.co.uk.

Amongst the rather sedate level of activity that comes with the country markets, (please don’t be fooled into thinking I mean quiet, it’s more like taking a little more time to make a more intelligent decision about your beers) we have a fund-raising event that looks like it is going to be a whole lot of fun.  We will be stocking the bar and you just need to bring your friends and make up a team.  And knowing the organiser Ricky, things will end up in some sort of ruckus 😉

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Been Beersotted in loads of local pubs this week, follow me on twitter to keep up!!!! @beergirlymaria

Beers and Cheers

Maria 🙂

Pete and I have a motley crew of friends and acquaintances, we love spending time with you all, preferably with a pint or two.  But we are sure there are more of you out there that would take the opportunity to meet up in the fabulously interesting places around Bucks and Oxon and enjoy an ale or two.  So we will be posting “Beersotted” meet ups.  Mostly through our newsletter and Twitter (sign up to one of them and keep up!!) but also through a bit of good old fashioned word of mouth.  If there is somewhere you think we should be, just let us know.

Let’s get beersotted together!

Beers &Cheers Maria 🙂

After the initial launch of the website we are now faced with business as usual.  As with every small business the challenge now is to constantly push on.  A few changes to the website have provoked some discussion about our range of services, which has been fantastic.  Thanks to you all for the great feedback.

Our big event this week is a fabulous 1940’s style celebration.  We have been honing our cocktail skills.  Nobody could ever accuse us of missing out on the fun.  The next challenge we are looking for is a cocktail night based on beer!!  If you fancy it, you know where to find us 😉

Beers & Cheers Maria

We knew it was going to be  busy with Vale Harvest starting after the winter break and Oakley’s Comedy night on the same day, but we weren’t expecting it to be quite so much fun!

Okay so we didn’t have the stall fixed up quite the way we wanted it and I failed miserably to take enough coffee to offset the early start! (and when I say early I mean crack of dawn, you know, before 9am!!!!)  But everyone was pleased to be back in Haddenham and looking forward to more markets in the sunshine 🙂

Then Oakley’s comedy night.  Pete did a sterling job while I bobbed in and out between costume changes.  There are photos but I will need bribing with beer before I share!

The best bit of the weekend was seeing so many of our beery friends and enjoying loads of fabulous local ale.  It’s a tough job we  intend get stuck in with our legendary enthusiasm!

See you soon! Beers and Cheers M&P

Looking forward to the Vale Harvest market in Haddenham this weekend.  We have our custom built market stall ready to go and an increased range of beers.  Sooooo pleased to bringing more of the fabulous local beers and craft beers to beers drinkers of Bucks and Oxon.

But no rest for us after that event, we are straight into running the bar for Oakley Players.  Their comedy night is always quite a raucous affair and a great example of am-dram.  Fab after show party as well  😉 !!  Mx

What a week!  Today we are taking delivery of a new bar – photos to follow!  This will add a bit more atmosphere to our outside events and is hand made by a local craftsman so we are both very excited :).

Having a run through of our 1940s cocktails tonight, could be messy!!

Beers & Cheers

Maria