The Royal Oak Inn, Meavy, Devon - The perfect Dartmoor hideaway for drinking and dining

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Real Ale Festival @ the Royal Oak

Friday, Saturday & Sunday 28th, 29th & 30th November

A Celebration of Westcountry Beers

Please come and join us for a drink sometime over the weekend
Eighteen South West Ales
Live Music Each Day

Friday evening - Strings Attached

Saturday afternoon - Selwyn Froglet

Sunday afternoon - acoustic session

Grand Raffle

In Aid of - Help for Heroes

A charity that provides support for wounded servicemen and women.

The South West Ales on offer at The Royal Oak Inn during the Real Ale Festival are:

Bays Best, Bays Gold, Butcombe Bitter, Butcombe Gold, Dartmoor IPA, Dartmoor Jail Ale, Doghouse Dozy Dawg, Exmoor Ale, Exmoor Beast, O'Hanlons Royal Oak, O'Hanlons Yellow Hammer, Otter Ale, Otter Bitter, Sharp's Doom Bar, Skinners Betty Stoggs, Skinners Cornish Knocker, Summerskills Tamar, Wadworth 6X.
 

About the Beers

Bays - Best - 3.7%

The selection of modern hops produce a well-balanced,
clean and crisp session beer with a dry and hoppy finish.
Bays - Gold - 4.3%

The unique blend of English and Continental hops creates
lemon citrus overtones which tantalise and refresh the palette.
Butcombe - Bitter - 4.0%

Light fruit notes, with a long, dry, bitter finish.
 
Butcombe - Gold - 4.4%

Yellow-gold in colour, rounded malt in the mouth, with a full
bittersweet finish of Fuggles hops.
Dartmoor - Inmates Pale Ale - 4.0%

This is a highly drinkable amber-coloured beer. It has a deliciously
smooth thirst quenching taste and subtle hop aroma.
Dartmoor - Jail Ale - 4.8%

A full-bodied mid-brown beer with a well-rounded
flavour and a sweet moreish aftertaste.
Doghouse - Dozey Dawg - 4.4%

A light, golden, thirst quenching refreshing beer with flavours
of elderflower and freshly mown grass.
Exmoor - Beast - 6.6%

Taste of rich fruitcake, a hint of rum, coffee and a herbal
hoppiness. The bittersweet finish is smooth yet complex.
Exmoor - Exmoor Ale - 3.8%

A light chestnut-brown session beer has a fresh, grainy, biscuity
nose with a hint of fresh citrus fruit in the background.
O’Hanlon’s - Royal Oak - 5.0%

Pleasant fruity flavours at first on the nose, followed by malt and
apricots. The taste is robust, hoppy and malty with apricot notes.
O’Hanlon’s - Yellow Hammer - 4.2%

Refreshing dry-hopped golden ale, moderately bitter with
a citrus, marmalade aroma.
Otter - Otter Ale - 4.5%

A well-balanced best bitter with a distinct malt and fruit aroma and
taste with malt, fruit and bitterness following in the finish.
Otter - Otter Bitter - 3.6%

Otter Bitter starts with a well-balanced malt flavour with some
bitterness this is then followed by a subtle bitterness.
Sharp’s - Doom Bar - 4.0%

The taste of succulent dried fruit, light roasted malty notes
and a subtle yet assertive bitterness.
Skinner’s - Betty Stoggs - 4.0%

Easy drinking copper ale with a superb balance of citrus hops, malt
and bitterness. Bitter finish is slow to develop but long to fade.
Skinner’s - Cornish Knocker - 4.5%

Flowery and fruity hops in the mouth and malt undertones, with a
clean and lasting malty, bittersweet finish.
Summerskills - Tamar - 4.3%

A secondary hopped version of our Best Bitter, giving a more
pronounced hop taste and aroma.
Wadworth - 6X - 4.3%

A mid-brown in colour, malty and fruity with
balancing hop character.