We kick off at 3pm on Thursday 26th. As usual all our 8 real ale handpumps will be utilised, plus our back room racking, with  23 real ales direct from the cask available over the course of the festival.

This festival’s theme is New World Hops and New Ale Styles, so there will be lots of interesting ales, including a number brewed especially for us, together with a range of Welsh and West Country real ciders.

10% discount for all CAMRA members.

Full list of ales and ciders:

Ale

1) Dark Star – Smoked Porter 5.4%

2) Dark Star – American Pale Ale 4.7%

3) Dark Star – Revelation IPA 5.7%

4) Ascot – Red IPA 5.5%

5) Brodies – Balls Pond Red 6.1%

6) Brodies – American Brown 4.8%)

7) Brodies – Kiwi 3.8%

Magic Rock – High Wire 5.5%

9) Magic Rock – Dark Arts 6%

10) BBF – Milk Stout 4.5%

11) BBF – Virtue 4.2%

12) Hard Knott – Code Black 5.6%

13) Hard Knott – Continuum 4%

14) Boggart – Cascade 4%

15) Steel City – Dark Funeral ABV 5.3%

16) Saltaire – South Island Pale 3.5%

17) Tryst – Carronade IPA 4.2%

18) Ilkley – Lotus IPA 5.7%

19) Marble – Chocolate 5.5%

20) Windsor & Eton – Conqueror 5%

21) Kernel – Nelson Sauvin Pale Ale 5.3%

22) Kernel – Export India Porter 6.5%

23) Crouch Vale – Amarillo 5%

Cider

1) Penallt Perry
2) Springfield Red Dragon Medium
3) Bollhayes Medium Dry
4) Butford Perry
5) Ciderfect Medium Dry
6) Handmade Cider Co Rough Diamond Dry
7) Hartland Perry
Newton Court Medium
9) Sarah’s Medium Dry
10) Upperhouse Medium
11) Venton Cyder Pig’s Snout Dry
12) Oliver Perry

Guests are divided into teams and play games in the same vein as Pictionary, Charades and Articulate. Each game last for around 20 minutes before players rotate to play a different team at a different game.

Players must register to play by 7.30pm, and games start at 8pm

Please contact Lauren: mrballsparlourgames@gmail.com / 0777 900 3327

Upcoming dates: Future dates TBC.

To make a reservation please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com / Tel: 020 7275 7640

Next event – Coming January 2012

£35.00 for 4 courses, plus an amouse bouche and coffee or tea

Please note, vegetarian options will be available, please enquire when booking.  The September 2011 was:

Amuse Bouche
Globe Artichoke with hollandaise sauce

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Starter
Braised mutton, roast butternut squash & caper cream sauce

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Fish Course
Mussels and shallots in London beer

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Main Course
Roast Barbary duck breast, crushed new potatoes, shallots, and crisped curly kale with port and juniper sauce

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Dessert
Pear three ways: Poached, baked and caramelised served with walnut and blue cheese crumbs

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Coffee / Tea
To be followed by coffee or tea of your choice. Our coffee is supplied by Climpsons of London Fields

* Vegetarian Options Available for all courses, please enquire when booking *

Featuring several comedians and an MC every month

No night in January 2012 due to the Duke Ale Festival.

Thursday 23rd February

Josh Widdicombe -
Star of Live at the Apollo and Stand Up for the Week
“Josh Widdicombe has the sort of gentle confidence, low-key charisma and one-for-all-the-family charm which could see him selling out enormous stadiums in a couple of years.” The Times

Plus:
Andrew Watts
Martin Croser
Jack De’ath
MC Ian Rigby

Thursday 29th March

Nick Helm – Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee
“top tip – the utterly full on Nick Helm” – Bruce Dessau – The London Evening Standard

Matthew Crosby
“Intriguingly Matthew Crosby from Bromley is also a comedian.” What’s On In Kent magazine

Plus:
Holly Burn
James W Smith
MC Ian Rigby

Thursday 26th April

Jigsaw- extended set
“a perfect blend of smart and silly” Spoonfed

Buy tickets:  http://www.wegottickets.com

For further details:  comedydukeN1@gmail.com
On Twitter: @COMEDYDUKEN1

Screening films on (usually!) the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month.
8pm / Free entry

Here is our forthcoming programme:

20 NOVEMBER
PARIS-ROUBAIX
A Sunday In Hell (1976)
111 mins

Established in 1896, the Paris-Roubaix is one of the oldest races in cycling. This documentary
captures the 1976 race, following the cyclists through the treacherous terrain of cobbled
streets, heavy traffic and a protest march, featuring Eddy Mercx and Roger De Vlaeminck.

4 DECEMBER
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
DIG! (2004)
107 mins

Reflecting the extremes of life in a band, DIG! tracks the disheveled existence of BJM
and their rivalry-cum-friendship with The Dandy Warhols. We will be playing related music
before and after the film.

18 DECEMBER
JACK KEROUAC
What Happened To Kerouac? (1986)
96 mins

A legend of the Beat Generation revealed through archive footage and interviews with
those who knew him best, including insights from Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

8pm start. Free entry.

(All menus are typical, and are subject to change on a daily basis)

Mushrooms on toast £4
½ pint of prawns & mayonnaise £4.50
Chicken liver & brandy pate on toast £4.50
Beetroot, rocket & goats cheese salad £5

Grilled courgette, fennel & tomato with parsley cream & new potatoes £8
Fillet of sea bass, new potatoes & cucumber salad with chervil butter £10

Roast free range chicken & bread sauce £11
Old spot pork loin & creamed leeks £11.50
32 day hung ‘rare’ roast Devon sirloin & Yorkshire pudding £13

Stilton, redcurrant jelly & wafers £4
Apple & blackcurrant crumble with cream £4.50
Chocolate pudding with cream £5

* Some dishes may contain traces of nuts.
** Menus are typical examples, although dishes can change daily. To request a copy menu, to make a reservation or pre-order please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com or telephone 020 7275 7640.

(All menus are typical, and are subject to change on a daily basis)

Butternut squash soup £4
Garlic mushrooms on toast £4
½ pint of prawns & mayonnaise £4.50
Chicken liver & brandy pate on toast with cornichons £4.50
Smoked highland salmon with toast & dill cream £5

Beetroot & goats cheese salad with vinaigrette £7.50
Galloway burger & triple cooked chips £8
Cumberland sausage & mash with red onion gravy £8
Lentil & wild mushroom pie with new potatoes £8
Beef & Guinness pie with curly kale £9
Whole trout, new potatoes & cucumber salad with crayfish butter £10
Rump steak with chips & little gem salad £12
Beef Wellington with baby spinach & tomato £15

Sides:
‘Spence Bakery’ bread £2
Triple cooked chips £2.50
Green salad w/tomato & vinaigrette £2.75

Stilton, redcurrant jelly & wafers £4
Apple & blackcurrant crumble with cream £4.50
Chocolate pudding with cream £5

* Some dishes may contain traces of nuts.
** Menus are typical examples, although dishes can change daily. To request a copy menu, to make a reservation or pre-order please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com or telephone 020 7275 7640.

With our much loved La Marzocco espresso machine, we offer an extensive menu of espresso based coffees. We use coffee exclusively from East London’s Climpson & Sons because we love the fact that they are a small, independent company run by enthusiasts, based right here in Hackney.  They import and roast their own beans and have remained at the forefront of the coffee industry since their founding in 2005 by fostering the latest techniques and individually hand roasting a range of quality coffees at their London Fields  roastery, a mile from the Duke.  Do visit the Climpson & Sons website for more about the history of the company and their seasonal blends.

TEA

Not only do we do a top notch builders brew, we also stock a changing selection of loose leaf teas that we buy direct from Tim D’Offay at Mayfair’s Postcard Teas including a choice of black and green teas, oolongs, spiced and scented teas.

• Appleton Estate
• Appleton Estate 8YO
• Black Seal
• Bundaberg
• Havana Club 3YO
• Havana Club 7YO
• Morgans Spiced
• Mount Gay
• Mount Gay Extra Old
• Sailor Jerry
• Woods 100
• Wray & Nephew

TEQUILA

• Patron Silver Tequila
• Patron XO Cafe Tequila

VODKAS

• Grey Goose
• Stolichnaya
• Wyborowa
• Zubrowka

GINS

• Gordons
• Hendricks
• Millers
• Plymouth
• Plymouth Sloe
• Tanqueray
• Tanqueray No.10