Beer

Drink The Brewery Dry - Kangaroo Court

Event Date: 
30/07/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Brewery

The writing is on the wall, judgement is coming and if you are up for the challenge of taking on some Rugby legends together with a brewery – all you can drink in beer, the result is sure to be hilarious; an infamous British Lions Kangaroo court style night out.

Rugby legends Jeff Probyn - ‘The Dipper’, Jason Leonard (OBE) - ‘The Fun Bus’ and Paul Rendall – ‘The Judge’ will deliver their prognosis on the upcoming 2015 Rugby World Cup. Be there if you dare!

Court session starts at 7pm for 7.30pm on 30th July 2015 at Exeter Brewery, Cowley Bridge Road, Exeter EX4 4NX....

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Don’t make any plans for the weekend until you’ve checked out our guide to the best of what’s on in and around Exeter.

THEATRE

Grease Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre 23 - 27 June 2015 Stage by Stage present a high-octane production of the world's most popular musical. Tickets £9-£15. www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

We Are Brontë Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter We Are Brontë is a piece of comic visual theatre inspired by the real and imaginery worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings, presented in Publick Transport’s irreverent style....

RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter Annual Shelter Day

Event Date: 
28/06/2015 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter, Black Hat Lane, Bakers Hill, Exeter EX2 9TA

Come along to your local RPSCA Shelter and enjoy a fun day of stalls, games and a dog show on Sunday 28 June from 11am until 4pm – all raising funds for the Shelter!

Little Valley Animal Shelter is based just outside Exeter at Black Hat Lane, Bakers Hill, Exeter EX2 9TA (just past Pocombe Bridge) and looks after abandoned or mistreated animals from the local area – dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, rodents, birds and sometimes a few more unusual creatures!

The Shelter is not normally open to the public, so the charity’s annual Shelter Day is a rare opportunity to...

Double silver for Otter Brewery

Silver anniversary celebrations continue for Otter Brewery with silver at the South West’s largest beer festival.

Otter Head has won Silver in the 'Strong Bitters & Pale Ales' class at SIBA's 23rd South West Beer Competition.

Brewed by Otter Brewery in the Blackdown Hills near Honiton, the beer was entered for judging as part of the 2015 beer festival – an event that takes place at Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot each year.

Otter Head is the strongest of the five core beers produced by the brewery, all of which are made using natural ingredients and their own...

Tuckers Maltings Beer Festival

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 12:00pm to 18/04/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Teign Road, Newton Abbot

The 23rd – Tucker’s Maltings Beer Festival

“Showcasing the Finest ales of the Southwest’s SIBA members.”

Entertainment

Thursday – 7pm to 11pm Strolling Magic with Oz Symons.

Live Music from ;

Friday Night – 9pm to 11pm Sweet Black Angels

Saturday Afternoon – 2pm to 4:30pm Nicky Swann

Saturday Early Evening – 5pm to 7:30pm The Solid Gold Show

Saturday Late Evening – 9pm to 11pm Last Resort

Sessions & Prices

Thursday 16th 5pm – 11pm at £5 per Ticket

Friday 17th 11am – 5pm at £3 per Ticket...

Call for young volunteer countryside rangers

The National Trust in East Devon is on the lookout for new volunteers to help manage some amazing countryside and coast. Whether you love getting your boots muddy and being active rain or shine, or are more at home welcoming visitors, we are seeking people with a passion for their local area.

Find out more at one of our volunteer open days on Sunday 8 March or Saturday 11 April at Branscombe Village Hall.

The National Trust team is based at Branscombe, nestled between Sidmouth and Beer, but covers a much wider area from Honiton to Exmouth. Caring for cliffs, hill forts,...

B Sharp singers raise the roof at Exeter Cathedral

Review: B Sharp Vocal Collective, Beer Quarry Caves Concert at Exeter Cathedral There was barely a dry eye in the house as the young voices of the B Sharp Vocal Collective rang out and raised the rafters of Exeter Cathedral last week.

The Beer Quarry Caves Concert was the culmination of a year of musical discovery that has seen children and young people from across the region working with music professionals to produce new music and songs inspired by the Beer Quarry Caves.

The B Sharp Vocal Collective filled the second half of the concert last Tuesday and followed a...

From caves to cathedral in music and song

Young singers and musicians from across the region will raise rafters at Exeter Cathedral next week in a special concert of music and song inspired by Beer Quarry Caves.

At its heart is B Sharp Vocal Collective, a choir of more than 160 children and young people from Dorset and East Devon who have been working on original material with professional musicians lead by composer John K Miles.

The concert, on Tuesday (JAN 13) at 7.30pm, is in collaboration with the Woodroffe School and the Jurassic Coast Teaching School Alliance and will see the B Sharp Vocal Collective soloists...

Young voices raised in praise of Caves

CHILDREN and young people from across the region will come together on Sunday (DEC7) for the second in a series of three B Sharp Voices concerts of music and song inspired by Beer Quarry Caves.

The afternoon show at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis finds secondary school age soloists who have been working with professional musicians as part of the B Sharp Voices project performing with the 94-strong choir of primary school children from St Michael’s and

Mrs Ethelston’s in Lyme Regis, Marshwood Primary and Bridport St Mary’s who made their concert debut in October.

A...

Name that ale!

Authored by Paigntonzoo
Posted: Tue, 10/21/2014 - 10:10am

What do you call an ale that’s been brewed for giraffes? That’s the challenge being set by two major local names.

Paignton Zoo and Bays Brewery have teamed up to launch a brand new ale to help raise money for conservation. And they’re inviting people to enter an online competition to give it a name.

Pete Salmon of Bays Brewery explained: “We produced a special ale for The Great Gorillas Project in 2013 and a rhino ale this summer. They were both successful, so now we’re doing another – and this time the theme is giraffes.”

Kat Sobey of Paignton Zoo added: “You can...

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