Cask & Craft Beer List - Godmanchester, Huntingdon 2025
For the Autumn 'Booze on the Ouse' 2025, we plan to serve 45 cask conditioned beers and 6 Craft beers over the course of the festival, sourced from both well-established independent breweries and the newer 'craft' micro-breweries. As usual, a range of great beers from East Anglia and the East Midlands will be on offer, including more than 30 'LocAles' (which are brewed within around 30 miles of the festival). We also have a range of cask beers from across the UK.
Sponsor a Cask! We are inviting companies, pubs and individuals to sponsor a cask of beer (or a tub/box of cider). The cost of this is £35 per cask and you will receive 2 free entry tickets, 2 free souvenir festival glasses and 2 free pints. If you are interested, you can select which beer/cider you would like to sponsor - this will be on a first come first served basis. Names of companies, pubs or individuals will then be displayed on the product they are sponsoring. You are welcome to bring along advertising flyers etc. to put on the tables. Please contact ku.gro.armac.stnuh@pihsrosnops if you would like to sponsor a cask or if you have any questions
Please scroll down to see the cask conditioned and craft beers that we plan to offer during the course of the festival. There will be some additions to this and it is possible there will be a few changes in the run up to the festival, so please check back here regularly for the latest updates!
Want to keep up to date with the latest availability of all our Beers and Ciders throughout the Festival: Booze on the Ouse Beer and Cider List & Status
Cask Conditioned Beers
Adnams - Broadside (4.7%) Southwold, Suffolk - Sponsored by Weeping Ash Wetherspoons, St Neots
Style: Red Ale - Notes: A dark ruby red beer which showcases chocolate malt, First Gold hops and the unique, fruity flavours of Adnams yeast. Bold flavours and aromas of fruitcake, almonds, and that warming, mouth-coating richness of conserved fruit you would expect to find in a strong ale.
Black Prince - The Saxon (5.9%) Northampton, Northamps - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Bitter - Notes: Smooth with a strong malty character, slightly sweet with hints of caramel.
Black Prince - The Wizard (3.9%) Northampton, Northamps - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Bitter - Notes: Light, refreshing bitter with little aroma. Gentle biscuit malt and hops flavour with fruity bitterness. Malty, bitter, faintly dry finish.
Bowler's - Sundance (4.5%) Deeping Gate, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Golden Ale - Notes: A tropical, fruity and thirst-quenching golden ale. Bursting with pineapple, passion fruit and mango aromas.
Bowler's - The Ryddler (6.4%) Deeping Gate, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Rye) - Notes: A full-bodied Rye IPA with complex malt and tons of West Coast dry hops.
Bowler's - Trusty Steed (5.5%) Deeping Gate, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: British IPA - Notes: A well-balanced IPA that delivers a rounded flavour, with floral hints and a twist of citrus.
Digfield - Barnwell Bitter (4.0%) Barnwell, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Bitter - Notes: A traditional amber, easy drinking bitter with a dry, malty finish.
Digfield - Chiffchaff (3.9%) Barnwell, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Golden Ale - Notes: A golden pale ale with a distinctive hoppy aroma.
Elephant School - Aussie Blonde (4.0%) Brentwood, Essex - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Blonde Ale - Notes: Blonde beer packed with Ella hops from down under.
Elmtree - Nightlight Mild (5.7%) Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Strong Mild - Notes: An old style mild, strong but carefully hopped to allow the malts to flourish. Liquorice hints balance the lasting nutty finish.
Grain - Blackwood (4.5%) Harleston, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Stout - Notes: A smooth and creamy stout, with flavours of chocolate and roasted malts. Vegan
Grain - Lignum Vitae (6.5%) Harleston, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: New World IPA - Notes: India Pale Ale, light on the palate, bursting with juicy, tropical fruit hop flavours. Vegan
Green Jack - Orange Wheat (4.2%) Lowestoft, Suffolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Wheat) - Notes: Marmalade aroma with a hint of hops, leading to a finely-balanced sweet blend of orange with a malt and hop background, and a sweet orangy finish.
Humpty Dumpty - Four Spot Chaser (4.0%) Reedham, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Fruit) - Notes: An amber, crisp ale with a ginger and lemon tang.
IVO - Heavy On The Chips (6.0%) St Ives, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Apiarist Atelier
Style: Strong Porter - Notes: A traditional Porter full of roasted malty goodness and another firm favourite. A robust and warming beer with big chocolate and coffee aromas and flavour. Vegan
IVO - I've Had Worse (3.8%) St Ives, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Porter - Notes: A very light pale, full of the best New Zealand hops. Super refreshing and zesty on the tongue. Vegan
IVO - She Keeps It Nice (4.5%) St Ives, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Nikki
Style: Premium Pale Ale - Notes: A firm favourite this is a fruit bomb with lashings of hops added throughout the boil and lots more thrown into the fermenter to give an amazing aroma and fruity taste. There is plenty of malt too giving this beer enough depth to compensate for the hop overload. Vegan
Lacons - Highlight Ale (5.0%) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Bitter - Notes: Dazzlingly light blonde, this flavoursome modern revival brims with lustful tropical fruits. Divine aromas of citrus continue long into a finish that is laced with delicate floral notes.
Mr Winter's - Citrus Kiss (6.0%) Norwich, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: New World IPA - Notes: Bold, bright and bitter, Citrus Kiss lingers on the tongue for a lasting flavour. Combining hints of zesty orange, grapefruit and lemon with hops and barley, this surprising IPA leaves you wanting more.
Nene Valley - Mid Week Bender (7.4%) Oundle, Northants LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Strong Ale - Notes: Dark amber beer with flavours of rich malt, molasses and candied orange and a big hop hit throughout. Gluten Free
Nene Valley - Simple Pleasures (3.6%) Oundle, Northants LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Golden Ale - Notes: A light, clean and refreshing beer with a pleasing citrus hop aroma and flavour. Gluten Free
New River - Blind Poet (4.5%) Hoddesdon, Herts - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Porter - Notes: Impressive easy drinking porter. Light roast malt, chocolate, liquorice, a satisfying bitter-sweet palate and a light dry smoky finish. Vegan
New River - London Tap (3.8%) Hoddesdon, Herts - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Pale Ale - Notes: A refreshing pale made with US cascade hops; hints of toffee, light citrus and a refreshing dry finish. Vegan
Oakham - Icon (5.0%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by St Neots Rugby Club VP
Style: Premium Golden Ale - Notes: The vibrant berry flavours and earthy, pine resin complexity of Mosaic combine brilliantly with the pronounced grapefruit, orange and tangerine notes of Centennial and the punchy tropical fruit characteristics of Citra.
Oakham - Laser Bolt (4.0%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Sandford House Wetherspoons, Huntingdon
Style: Session Golden Ale - Notes: Robust notes of tropical fruits, grapefruit and blackcurrant strike out with unerring accuracy leading on to illuminating hints of lychee and a mildly herbal resonance.
Oakham - Stillage People (4.7%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Pale Ale - Notes: One of only 19 firkins ever produced, and only the second beer brewed at Oakham Brewery’s original Westgate site in recent times, this is truly a one of a kind! Brewed with experimental Charles Faram hops to give this unique beer lots of new world hop tropical flavours.
Panther - Black Panther (4.5%) Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Stout - Notes: Dark brown with fruity spangles on the nose. Sweet plum fruitiness gives way to a gentle malty bitter finish with some cherry sides.
Papworth - Crystal Ship (4.2%) Earith, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Bitter - Notes: An amber coloured ale with a light body and a strong citrus finish. Vegan
Papworth - Fen Skater (4.0%) Earith, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Pale Ale - Notes: Fresh fruity hop flavours with a clean, crisp and refreshing finish. Vegan
Potbelly - Beijing Black (4.4%) Kettering, Northants LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Strong Mild - Notes: A Strong dark mild, Mild but not Meek!
Potbelly - Piggy in the Meadow (4.3%) Kettering, Northants LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Honey) - Notes: This bright golden ale is brewed with Pioneer and Summit hops, and a tasty amount of real honey.
Roughacre - Mosquito (6.5%) Sudbury, Suffolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: New World IPA - Notes: A golden IPA hopped in stages with Amarillo, Summit, Columbus and Cascade hops for a punchy citrus aroma and refreshing flavour with hints of grapefruit and lychee.
Three Blind Mice - Juice Rocket (4.5%) Little Downham, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Pale Ale - Notes: This robust, cloudy, zesty pale ale has a golden colour and explosive fruity hop in aroma and taste. An appealing sweetish balance has peach, pineapple and citrus and a scattering of malt.
Three Blind Mice - Old Brown Mouse (4.2%) Little Downham, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Bitter - Notes: A ruby brown beer with light fruity malt aromas, a sweetish malty palate and a light malt finish.
Two Rivers - Porters Pride (5.0%) Downham Market, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Strong Porter - Notes: A porter made the old fashioned way with brown malt. Full bodied and well balanced; delicious, rich, with a slight sweetness cutting through the smooth malt. Coffee and chocolate aromas and taste, with a liquorice, vanilla finish.
Wheatsheaf - Mockingbird (4.7%) Huntingdon, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Whippet Buses
Style: Session Stout - Notes: Rich flavour with the bitterness of coffee, despite there being no coffee in the recipe. This is complemented perfectly by floral and earthy hop aromas. Vegan
Wheatsheaf - Oracle (4.8%) Huntingdon, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Whippet Buses
Style: Premium Pale Ale - Notes: Initial sweet biscuity flavours from a complex blend of malts, leading into delicate fruity notes and finishes with a gentle bitterness. Vegan
Wheatsheaf - Whippet (3.6%) Huntingdon, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Whippet Buses
Style: Session Pale Ale - Notes: With Admiral, Harlequin and Olicana, this beer blends a traditional bitterness with more contemporary fruity notes. Vegan
Wolf - Granny Wouldn't Like It (4.8%) Attleborough, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Red Ale - Notes: Tawny coloured with a pronounced malty bouquet. Bitterness increases throughout but is softened by a smoky malt background. Some roast notes and a gentle, fruity sweetness add depth.
Wolf - Valencia Orange (3.5%) Attleborough, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Golden Ale - Notes: Golden session ale with a burst of orange.
Wolf - Woild Moild (4.8%) Attleborough, Norfolk - Sponsored by John Anderson
Style: Strong Mild - Notes: Lots of flavours swirl around. Malt, bitterness, vine fruit and roast all appear in this red brown slightly grainy brew. Surprisingly light body for the range of flavours. The finish becomes smoother and drier.
Woodforde's - Nog (4.6%) Woodbastwick, Norfolk - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Old Ale - Notes: Full bodied with a chewy mouthfeel. Dark chocolate and roast outmuscle malt and black cherry to provide the dominant aroma and taste. Hints of raisin and caramel. Slowly dries out as black treacle creeps into the finish.
Xtreme - Chocolate LuXardo (5.0%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Oat) - Notes: An oatmeal stout with good mouth feel, a strong chocolate opening and sweet cherry finish.
Xtreme - Christopher ColumbuX (4.6%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Blonde Ale - Notes: A summer blonde with the single hop, Columbus, bursting through. An intensely citrus flavour and aroma, combined with an earthy, black pepper background and a subtle bitter finish.
Xtreme - Strawberry Xtreme (4.5%) Peterborough, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Speciality (Fruit) - Notes: A rich chocolate stout with sweet strawberry and cream. This is liquid chocolate strawberry cream taken from your favourite box of chocolates.
Craft Beers
Brouwerj van Honsebrouck - Bacchus Kriek (5.8%) Flanders, Brussels - Sponsored by Chris - The Festival Organiser's Cheaky Tipple
Style: Speciality (Fruited Sour) - Notes: A perfect balance of sweet & sour, boasting crisp almond & caramel notes set off by a sour kick from the Morello cherries.
Cloudwater - Fresh (0.5%) Manchester - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Session Pale Ale - Notes: The ultimate thirst-quencher, Fresh alcohol free pale ale is absolutely brimming with vibrant hop flavours and refreshing notes of zesty orange and succulent peach.
IVO - Colne Colsch (5.0%) St Ives, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by LowCostBeer.com
Style: Speciality (Lager) - Notes: Fermented with ale yeast, but then finished with lagering resulting in a light easy drinking pale that finishes crisp and clean. Vegan
Pixie Brewing - May The Odds Be In Your Favour (5.5%) Barrington, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Dinky Drinky Box
Style: New World IPA - Notes: A New England IPA bursting with vibrant aromas of gooseberry and white grape from Nelson Sauvignon hops, complemented by bright citrus, juicy melon, and a subtle spicy kick from Cashmere and Citra. Smooth, juicy, and refreshingly complex.
Secret Project - Decorate A Donkey (5.6%) Turves, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by Runesilk
Style: New World IPA - Notes: Crammed with tastes of the new world from Motueka, Mosaic and Wai-iti hops.
Secret Project - Elf Just Out A Hill (5.4%) Turves, Cambs LocAle - Sponsored by [Available to Sponsor]
Style: Premium Pale Ale - Notes: Hazy pale with packed with Krush and Strata hops.
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