We're very excited to announce our second beer festival of the year – and our biggest ever line-up of beers!

Join us from 12 noon Thursday 17th September to 10.30pm Sunday 20th September for the 2009 Bricklayer's Arms Devon & Cornwall Beer Festival.

The festival features 80 beers from 40 of the South-West's best breweries, with ales being shipped in from as far away as Jersey and the Scilly Isles. Click here for the full list.

As always, we'll be laying on some entertainment:

Thursday night – Majestic Brass

Friday night – The John Ongom Big Band

Saturday afternoon – The Hammersmith Morris Men

Entrance to the festival is free, but we'll keep a small (returnable) deposit for your glass.

Don't miss this one – it's going to be fabulous…

As summer draws to a close, you’ll be looking for somewhere warm and welcoming to enjoy a few fine pints of beer.

And we have just the thing!

The guest ales this week are from the Art Brewery. The brewer’s daughters, 4-year-old Zoe and 2-year-old Tia designed the pump clips and they’re the nicest we’ve ever seen. Come and enjoy the combination of art and ale…

Nouveau 3.9%
ibeer 4%
Renaissance 4.5%
Monkey IPA 6.4%

Our upcoming beer festival hasn't distracted us from providing you with the best possible range of guest beers every week. Coming up on the pumps over the next few days, we've got beers from two fine breweries including a champion strong ale:

Black Sheep Brewery
Golden Sheep 3.9%
Ale 4.4%
Best 3.8%

West Berkshire Brewery
Mr Chubbs 3.7%
Maggs Mild 3.8%
Good Old Boy 4%
Brick Kiln Bitter 4%
Full Circle 4.5%
Dr Hexter's Healer 5% (Champion Beer of Britain 2009 in the strong ales category)

We are delighted to have been named CAMRA's Greater London Regional Pub of the Year 2009 for a second time. Many thanks to CAMRA and all our customers. Work is now well under way, putting the beer list together for this September's Devon and Cornwall Beer Festival. This will run from September 17th – 20th so keep an eye on the website for updates. It's going to be superb… This week's guest beers are from the Downton Brewery. We will be serving the following:

New Forest Ale 3.8%

Apple Blossom 4.3%

Dark Delight 5.5% 

The Bricklayers Arms cricket team is in full swing – halfway through the summer the side has already notched up more victories than in the whole of last season. New players are always welcome and you can find results and match reports, as well as details of upcoming fixtures, on our Cricket Fixtures & Results page – which we'll keep updated over the summer.

The Bricklayer's Arms Cricket Team have been on a bit of a winning streak at the start of the season. You can find results and match reports, as well as details of upcoming fixtures, on our Cricket Fixtures & Results page – which we'll keep updated over the summer.

This week's featured brewery is the Humpty Dumpty Brewery in Reedham, Norfolk.  It's on the tourist trail and Lesley and Stephen are flat out, supplying their visitors' shop and local pubs with their wonderful beer. So we're delighted to have talked them into letting us have some of it. We'll be  serving the following:

Little Sharpie 3.8%
Reedcutter 4.4%
Cheltenham Flyer 4.6%
Humpty Dumpty Porter 5.4%
Swallowtail 4%
Bad Egg 4.1%
Broadland Sunrise 4.2%
Norfolk Nectar 4.6%

which will be on the pumps (along with their beautiful pump clips!) from the weekend.

We're so impressed with Sambrook Brewery's Wandle Ale that we've decided to stock it all the time here at The Bricklayer's Arms.  We're doing this in conjunction with C.A.M.R.A.'s LocAle scheme, which encourages pubs to stock locally produced beer.  This helps support our local economy and also cuts the distance a beer has to travel, thus reducing pollution. Feedback from customers about Wandle Ale has been really good, many likening it to old style Young's Ordinary.

We hope you'll enjoy having it here all the time, as we know you do with the Timothy Taylor's. And remember, we'll still have three hand pumps left to feature different guest beers every week. Along with the Wandle Ale, we'll be featuring Loddon Brewery again this bank holiday weekend, back by popular demand!

We were delighted to receive our CAMRA award for South West London Pub of the Year 2008.  Many thanks to everyone who came down to celebrate with us and thanks again for your continuing support of The Bricklayer's Arms.

 

Left to Right:

Martin Butler of SW London CAMRA, Rebecca Newman and Patricia Barbonne Allen

Photo: Phil Blanchard SW London CAMRA

Nothing says the English Summer better than some fantastic, flavourful ales and cricket on the village green. To satisfy your cravings for the former, we've lined up some fantastic guest beers for this week and next, starting with our old favourites, Brighton-based Dark Star Brewery:

Mild for May  3.6%

Hophead 3.8%

American Pale Ale 4.7%

Best 4%

Old Chestnut 4%

Original 5%

Festival 5%

Stout 4.5%

Espresso 4.2%

Then we move on to some more old friends, the Downton Brewery:

Mild 3.3%

Quadhop 3.9%

Apple Blossom 4.3%

Honey Blonde 4.3%

Dark Delight 5.5%

Then fans of the real Gentleman's Game will be pleased to hear that we've lined up a summer of matches for the Bricklayer's Arms Cricket Team. Fixtures are posted on our dedicated Cricket Fixtures page. Not all venues are confirmed and we still have a match or two to set up, but we'll update the page when the final details are slotted into place.