Racked and Tapped Beer Festival returns to Newport this month

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Red Rooster Events and the Stag and Scotch Micropub in Newport are hosting a beer festival at Newport Rugby Club. We catch up with the organiser to find out more.

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00:00So we're here in Newport with Darren from the Stag and Scotch Micropub, also Red Rooster Events.

00:07Hello Darren.

00:08Hi, how you doing?

00:08I'm good, thank you buddy.

00:10So you've got a bit of a special event coming up, just fill us in on what it is and where it is,

00:14because it's not actually going to be here, is it?

00:16It's not, no.

00:17It's the Racked and Taps Beer Festival, which takes place on the 26th of July at Newport Rugby Club,

00:23just up the Forton Road there, in a huge marquee.

00:25So whatever the weather, we've got you covered on that side of things.

00:29We'll be featuring 25 real ales, traditional ciders, keg and craft beers, live music all afternoon and evening.

00:37We've got a superb line-up of artists there for you, street food, and generally just a good day all round.

00:44That sounds like a good day out, mate. I'm getting it on my calendar.

00:47Have you done it there before?

00:48Yeah, we did our first one last year, the inaugural one was last year, in July again,

00:52where we had 27 Cascales that day, and we pretty much sold a lot out.

00:57So it was a fantastic day, yeah.

00:58Do people tend to switch to ciders in the summer, or are you still doing well on the ales?

01:03Yeah, the ales slow up a little bit. Cider does pick up naturally.

01:06Some of the lager drinkers have transferred across to cider as well for a short period of time.

01:10So yeah, it is a growth marketplace during this warm period, yeah.

01:15Cool. And it's a great venue, isn't it?

01:17I know people that have been there before, and it works well as a venue to host events, a rugby club.

01:22Yeah, it works great. I mean, like I said, it was the first one we did there last year.

01:25It works for beautiful views, plenty of space to put a big marquee up by our friends across the show system support us with that.

01:32So yeah, it's a great space, nice infrastructure, and it kind of works for us.

01:35And of the ales you're taking along with you, what's any particular ones you'd give out a shout to yourself, personal favourites?

01:42We're just finishing the actual listings off at the moment.

01:45It's difficult to do it too early, because a lot of the breweries out there do seasonals.

01:50They don't know what they're doing themselves yet for a month's time.

01:53So yeah, there's just some great beers from the likes of Enville, Ludlow, we've got some, what else have we got going on?

02:00Stonehouse is doing some three tonnes.

02:03Hobson's Brewery has supported us really well this year.

02:05So we've got some great Shropshire and Staffordshire and Cheshire-based brewers joining us alongside some from Featherfield as well.

02:11Nice one. Well, great look. Good luck with the event, chap.

02:14I'm sure it'll be a great day out for all. Cheers, buddy.

02:16Thanks, mate. Cheers.

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