Great Farmhouse Expo | UK Wide
The Great Farmhouse Exploration is back for it’s third year taking place over the 13-15 March at 30 hand-picked locations. Beer venues Duration know and trust to showcase our love of classic European farmhouse styles.
Come and enjoy some delicious beers to make new discoveries on your beer journey. Each venues will pour an individual, hand picked line up of 8 beers. All events are free to attend. The Great Farmhouse Expo will showcase 3 new farmhouse beers alongside some crisp lagers, juicy pales and IPAs, a Lambic-style sour and some cask.
We’ve worked hard developing our beers using the best ingredients and honing our recipes to make the beers the very best examples of the style they can be. You can’t hurry when it comes to beer making and The Great Farmhouse Expo is the results of several months if not years of dedication to our craft.
A Great Farmhouse Beer Bundle will be available on the Duration webshop in early March for those unable to get out to a participating venue – but we highly recommend making it out to enjoying the beers at a venue near you. We’ll announce the list of participating venues and the beers pouring soon.
Below are a selection of last years delights!
BEER LIST
Each venue will pour a hand curated line up of 8 beers. These will include at least 3 our special farmhouse releases, a Lager, a Lambic-Style Sour, a Pale Ale, our award-winning flagship IPA Turtles All The Way Down. Plus one Wild Card choice! See some of the one-off specially brewed beers you could be trying at a venue near you.
* denotes our award winners!
CONTINENTAL STYLES
Bet The Farm 4.5% Continental Pale – Award winning hoppy crisp, dry and elegantly balanced. Lightly floral with a refreshingly hop bitter finish
Strataberry Fields 4.0% Strawberry Grisette – Mellow strawberries and expressive hops come together in harmony over a rustic, spritzy base finishing dry and tart
Blue River 4.2% Blueberry Sour – Blueberries grown using our spent hops bring an exquisite natural acidity to this bright, lightly tart and refreshing beer
LAGER OPTIONS
*Doses 5.2% German Pilsner – Crisp, dry and delicious a straight up German Pilsner
*Good Times 4.2% American Light Lager – A sprightly and malt sweet session beer to let the good times roll
LAMBIC STYLE | SOUR OPTIONS
*Fold + Fly 5.1% Foeder Aged Lager (Balance Collab) – Conditioned in an American oak foeder for 5 months. A farmyard lager with subtle brett character
Oak + Jay – 6% Biere De Miel (Honey Beer) – A beer 2.5 years in the making that truly reflects our landscape. Local honey brings sweet chestnut and orange
IPA / PALE OPTIONS
Another Day Done 4.4% Juicy Pale – A juicy and crisp Pale with tropical and fruit aromas, soft bitterness and a refreshingly dry citrus finish
Snapshot 4.5% Session IPA – A deliciously juicy and tropical IPA bursting with notes of mango and peach with a splash of zest from the Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe hops
Sweeping Coast 4.8% West Coast Pale – Clean and bright, this Pale has a dry pallet to let the classic American hops shine through with Mosaic, Azacca, Simcoe hops
Bonsai 4.8% Pale Ale – Idaho 7 hops lead with tropical notes of papaya complemented by a sticky pine character. Mosaic bring overripe mango + earthy undertones
*Turtles All The Way Down 5.5% IPA – A deliciously juicy IPA with soft bitterness and a wonderfully tropical taste. Great balance for year-round easy refreshment
Truck 6.0% New England IPA – Strata and Citra hops team up to bring bright citrus, soft berries and ripe stone fruit, with just a waft of weed that Strata is famous for
Dripping Pitch 6.7% West Coast IPA – A return to the West Coast when a big hop aroma, a resinous mouthfeel and a csnap of bitterness delivers pure gulpability
CASK OPTIONS
Another Day Done 4.4% Juicy Pale (Cask Core) – A juicy and crisp Pale with tropical and fruit aromas, soft bitterness and a refreshingly dry citrus finish
Saddle 4.8% West Coast Pale (Cask Special) – Blending Amarillo’s orange and floral tones, Simcoe’s captivating tropical and resin notes and Citra for some zesty pop
Big Love 4.4% Pale Ale (Cask Special) – Maris Otter malt gives a subtle sweetness + biscuity backbone. Citra + Loral hops bring bright, zestiness, a hint of tangerine
Bliss 4.4% Mosaic Hopped Pale (Cask Special) – Bliss is dry-hopped with Mosaic and is here to give perfect balance in a refreshing session beer time after time
Best Bitter 4.2% Bitter (Cask Special) – Extra Pale Maris Otter malt meets East Kent Goldings hops. Light malty sweetness and earthy floral notes. A timeless pint
Order the Great Farmhouse Exploration Beer Bundle HERE (To Follow)
Click the map to see what venue is pouring them near you HERE (To Follow)
2025 VENUES BELOW
2026 VENUES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
EASTERN
DURATION BREWING, KINGS LYNN // YALM, NORWICH // BEER HATCH, NORWICH // BIER DRAAK, NORWICH // WEST ROAD TAP, LEIGH ON SEA
NORTHERN
ORB MICROPUB, DARLINGTON // KOELSCHIP YARD, GLASGOW // THAT BEER PLACE, CHESTER // HOP HIDEOUT, SHEFFIELD // WINCKLEY STREET ALEHOUSE, PRESTON // MOLD ALEHOUSE, FLINTSHIRE // NORTH BAR, LEEDS // NORTH BAR CIRCLE SQUARE
SOUTHERN + SW
THE POCKET, ISLINGTON // FUGGLES BEER CAFE, TONBRIDGE + TUNBRIDGE WELLS // // PUB HOPE, CARSHALTON // WATER INTO BEER, BROCKLEY // OLAF’S TUN, SOUTHAMPTON // BOTTLE + STOAT, SOUTHAMPTON // VESSEL, PLYMOUTH
CENTRAL
JAM CAFE, NOTTINGHAM // STONEWORKS, PETERBOROUGH // KILDER BAR, BIRMINGHAM // THE TWO TAILED LION, LEICESTER // NORTHSTOWE TAP + SOCIAL, CAMBRIDGE // THE BOTTLE HOUSE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD
LAGER BEER
We have been dedicated to lager since we opened, in fact our brewhouse was designed and fabricated in Germany where they understand technically speaking how hard lager is as a style to produce. We have made helles, bocks, rice lagers, kolsches, corn lagers and even a jasmine and basil lager over the years. For this event we are showcasing our most loved sessionable lagers in an American Light Lager, an Italian Pilsner and a German Pilsner – all using noble hops.
BELGIAN SESSION BEERS
But that’s not all, we will also have some sessionable Belgian beers in the mix to show you just how approachable, simple and elegant a well made Belgian style beer can be. Often overloooked for a mis-association of being spicy or obtuse (no quads or tripels in this line up) these farmhand everyday styles like grisettes, goses or wheats in our view are utterly delicious, fully approachable and well worth a revisit. We promise nothing too out there all our fresh beers are designed to be ‘pintable’ and balanced. On offer will be a Lemon + Thyme Grisette a small Belgian table beer, a Classic Wit, and a Raspberry Gose.
LAMBIC-STYLE SOURS
Then for the fully adventurous we have the lambic-style portion of our line up with some mixed fermentation, entirely spontaneous fermented beers (meaning no yeast was pitched and fermentation was achieved solely through wild local cultures present in the air and in the barrel the beer went into). These beers that take months if not years to create and are definitely sip and savour beers. For this event we have teamed up with Balance Brewing + Blending and some local Beer Keepers and have an incredibly special Dark Cherry Sour to share too!
BEER DU JOUR
We of course know Lagers, Lambics and Belgians need a little more dedication so to play to the crowd, we have given each venue the option to pick some Pales/IPAs from our fresh everyday range (in cask too). Modern, hazy, juicy numbers loaded with American tropical hops we all can’t get enough of at the moment – Turtles our flagship IPA (Mosaic and Hallertau Blanc) will be pouring at all venues alongside a few new specials.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE WILD STUFF?
At Duration we have a dedicated barrel store where we house our coolship (a vessel that helps us innoculate the beer with local cultures), some foeders (large oak barrels more often seen in wine making) where we rest the beer to impart some of the oak into it and where we keep a culture of multiple yeast (bretty, more wild and complex) to sour the beer.
We call the beers we make in this project our Fermata Range – it’s a musical term that means to slow or prolong a note, after all Duration is the distance between two notes musically speaking.
We take things slow, aging on wood or fruit additions, spontaneous or mixed fermenting our beers and evenblending them to taste. Often tart, usually dry and with a curious undulating sensation these beer express themselves with a bit more carbonation and lot more depth and complexity. They ripple and flavours emerge in waves and undulate across the tongue. If you sip and savour these beers a lot can be revealed, compared to a big hearty chug you can give a fresh session beer.
