The Castle Inn

Main Road, West Lulworth, Dorset, BH20 5RN.
Telephone: 01929 400311.

Beer and Cider Festival (March 2010)

The Castle Inn's Beer and Cider Festival

We are holding our second Beer and Cider Festival this March (2010) after the great success of our first one in September!

We will be stocking around 20 real ales and 10 ciders (on top of our normal selection) for the weekend.

The "famous" festival burgers will definately be returning after their amazing reception (remember folks, they're the burgers on our normal menu now!)

The festival is running from 12pm to 11pm on Friday and Saturday! Sunday will run until we run out of beer!

We will be offering a discount to CAMRA members on all beers, ciders and festival food! (Just remember your CAMRA card!)

For local camping, please try the Durdle Door Holiday Park, only a short sobering walk from the pub!

For those using Facebook, please register your interest: Beer Festival Event

Please look on our Beer and Cider Festival (September 2009) page if you are looking for information on our first festival!

Guest Comments

Beautiful place & all so helpful & friendly. Thank you for our anniversary gift too!
- Maureen & Patrick -
14th December 2009

Midweek Breaks

We're offering a midweek break deal from October to March inclusive.
£237 for 4 nights (per room), Monday to Friday.

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Beer & Cider Festival

We are holding our second Beer and Cider Festival at the Castle Inn this March!

Please look at our Beer & Cider Festival page for more information.

Current Real Ales

Cornish Coaster - Sharp's Brewery - "A golden bitter with a citrus and hoppy taste. Light in the mouth, with a earthy finish. Good session bitter."

Jimmy Riddle - Dorset Piddle Brewery - "A refreshingly light and full flavoured fruity beer, brown in colour with a subtle hint of chocolate. Perfect session drinking!"

Fossil Fuel - Isle of Purbeck Brewery - "A light amber best bitter with a fresh malt & peppery hop aroma.
Balanced malt & the hop presence lead to a pleasantly dry & clean finish."

Dorset Gold - Palmers Brewery - "A refreshing and thirst-quenching golden premium ale, with a palate that's full and fruity and lightly hopped with Kent Goldings."

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Real Cider & Perry

Equinox - Mr Whitehead's Cider Company - "Equinox is a light and easy drinking Medium cider, it has both dry and sweet qualities, coupled with a strength that makes it an excellent session cider."

Westons Country Perry - Westons Cider - "Made from perry pears and fully matured in old oak vats to develop its strength and traditional character. Free from all artificial colouring, flavouring and sweetening it retains its natural pale colour."

Westons 1st Quality Cider - Westons Cider - "This medium still cider has a well balanced fruity flavour and is smooth and mellow with a clean apple finish, leaving the mature taste of bittersweet apples on the palate. Unlike the cloudy scrumpies this is filtered to be clear and bright."

Orchard Pig Medium Cider - Orchard Pig - "This is still and wonderfully refreshing. It is a soft, medium cider with a fruity, clean flavour and a lingering apple finish. Drink it as an aperitif, with meals and at parties for a real experience of Somerset fine quality cider."

Blakeney Red Perry - Hecks Farmhouse Cider - "A medium single variety perry made with Blakeney Red pears.
Cloudy, light yellow appearance. Dry perry aroma. Great taste and a smooth finish - sweet but not too sweet with a good aftertaste."

Cider by Rosie - Cider by Rosie - "A Dorset cider. A traditional still, medium dry, full juice cider. It is made entirely of true West Country cider apple varieties and blended over the complete harvesting season."

Kingston Black Cider - Hecks Farmhouse Cider - "A medium-dry single variety cider made with Kingston Black Apples.
Hecks' Kingston Black is a smooth, lightly acidic, well balanced cider."

Morgan Sweet Cider - Hecks Farmhouse Cider - "A medium-sweet single variety cider made with Morgan Sweet apples."

Port Wine Of Glastonbury - Hecks Farmhouse Cider - "A hazy pink & orange coloured cider.
Good medium flavour with a bit of sweetness and a drying finish."

Snakecatcher Scrumpy (Medium) - New Forest Cider - "Seriously strong, intense in flavour and character, being aged in spirit barrels. The ignorant might call it rough, but the knowledgeable connoisseur would consider it a robust English artisanal country beverage."

Westons Old Rosie Scrumpy - Westons Cider - "This still cider is allowed to settle out naturally after fermentation resulting in a truly old fashioned, full flavoured, appley, cloudy scrumpy, with a well balanced medium dry character."

Premium Perry - Broadoak Cider - "Pale green gold perry - medium with a subtle flavour."

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The Castle Inn - Lulworth Cove - Dorset: The Beer Garden during the summer!