The Hippodrome in March holding 12-day beer festival with pints costing just over £2

A March pub will be hosting a 12-day beer festival offering a range of real ales including five from international brewers, costing just over £2 a pint.

The Hippodrome Wetherspoon in March will be kicking the festival off next week on Wednesday, March 5 and will continue until Sunday, March 16.

The overseas brewers, who are all women, are from Italy, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the USA.

The beers on sale in the festival have not previously been available at the pub and a number of them have been brewed for the first time, exclusively for the festival.

Among the festival collections are vegan beers.

As well as featuring a range of different malt and hop varieties from around the world, there are also beers that include cherries and cocoa beans in their ingredients.

The beers will cost £2.15 a pint.

The international beers are Hey Pal (Terrapin Brewery, USA), Estuary Session Ale (Land & Sea Brewery, Canada), Wallaby (Penny Red Brewery, Australia), Chocolate Porta (Birra Perugia Brewery, Italy) and Antiopdean (Brew Moon Brewery, New Zealand).

The festival line-up also includes Alpha Female (Rooster’s), Loopy Loo (Batemans), Chase the Sun (Vale), Cherry Nice (Greene King), Queen of Hearts (St Austell), Mocha Porter (Elgood’s), Grand Union (Hook Norton), Blossom (Black Sheep).

Pub manager Ryan Moore said: “The festival is a great celebration of real ale.

“It will allow us to showcase a selection of superb beers, featuring beers not previously available to our customers in the pub, including those from brewers as far afield as Australia and New Zealand, as well as those closer to home, over a 12-day period.

“All of the beers will be available at great value-for-money prices.”

Three third-of-a-pint tasters will also be available for the price of a pint.

All ales will be available to order at the bar or via the Wetherspoon app.