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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT


Sup, sup and away


Following last year’s forced landing, the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival is getting ready to take flight once again with a salute to the Battle of Britain’s 80th anniversary.


This February, the popular charity event returns to Magna after a year off from the annual ale calendar in 2019. But they are firmly out of the no-fly zone and ready to welcome thousands of people back to into the fold to enjoy three days of ale, acoustics and aviation. Since starting at Oakwood School back in 1992, Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival has


‘‘there will be four bars selling over 150 beers from breweries around the country’’


continued soaring to success, becoming a beacon for top quality beer and bands in South Yorkshire. The event moved to Magna in 2011 and this year marks the 26th festival which will take place between Thursday 27th and Saturday 29th February.


As this summer commemorates 80 years since the Battle of Britain occurred in 1940, the event organisers have chosen to theme this year’s event around some of the fantastic RAF fighter aircraft that defended Britain’s skies during World War II – aptly calling it Sup, Sup and Away.


As usual, there will be four bars selling over 150 beers from breweries around the country for


revellers to navigate their way through. The sky is the limit to try something different from your usual tipple of choice – as long as you drink responsibly…


The bar in Magna’s ‘red room’ entrance hall will be named the Spitfire bar, serving a range of Kentish beers to celebrate the country over which the Supermarine Spitfire famously fought. Of course, Shepherd Neame will be there with their iconic Spitfire ale.


The second bar is named in honour of the Spitfire’s second in command – the Hawker Hurricane – and will stock range of beers from the North East. In the early days of the Battle of Britain on what has become known as Black Thursday, 141 German Luftwaffe aircraft launched a raid against the north east cities of Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Squadrons from RAF Unsworth fought back in a hoard of Hurricanes.


There will be a range of


breweries from the Northumberland and Durham areas including Tyne Bank, Whitley Bay and Wylam, with the organisers on the look-out for a beer named Hurricane to complete the line-up.


In the main hall, the bar will be called the Lancaster after the most famous and successful of all WWII planes, the Avro Lancaster Bomber.


70 aroundtownmagazine.co.uk


Behind the bar there will be a mix of Lancashire and Yorkshire breweries which will be putting the roses rivalry aside to celebrate the best of British ales. Blackburn’s Thwaites brewery will join the likes of Abbeydale, Bradfield and Stancil from South Yorkshire. The fourth and final bar is the Boardwalk bar which will be manned by the team at Chantry Brewery in Rotherham who will be bringing their core range of award- winning cask ales such as New York Pale, Iron and Steel Bitter, and Black Diamond Stout. If you don’t like beer, there will also be a range of wines, prosecco and ciders and, for the first year, a gin bar. “We’ve always held off having spirits behind the bar due to the strength. There is no such thing as a real ale lout. But gin will open up the festival to more people due to its popularity,” event organiser, Steve Burns says.


There will also be free soft drinks available for the designated drivers, so everyone is catered for. All of the four bars will be staffed by volunteers, including members from both Rotherham and Rotherham Sitwell Rotary Clubs, who are giving their free time to pull pints in aid of Maples Cancer Centre at Clifton which is once again the chosen charity that the festival is raising money for.


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