Bell Street pub celebrates award win with Easter Sausage Fest

April 8, 2014

A sausage created especially for Brakspear’s Bull on Bell Street has been awarded a medal in a Sausage and Pie competition, and to celebrate the pub is staging a Sausage Festival on Good Friday, offering the winning banger and other award-winning sausages to Henley residents.

The Brakspear Triple Banger, made using the brewery’s Triple Ale, is a collaboration with Rob Chasteauneuf, head chef at the Bull on Bell Street, and award-winning Hampshire butcher Alf Turner.  It won an award at the Great Hampshire Sausage & Pie Competition for Young Butcher, Tom Morgan, who made the sausages for Alf Turner.

The Sausage Festival at the Bull on Bell Street is offering the Brakspear Triple Banger and three other tasty sausages from Alf Turner: Best of British; Pork & Leek and Dragon’s Fury, made with hot chilli sauce for a real kick. Customers choose three sausages, a potato – mash, crushed new, or triple-cooked chips –  and one other vegetable, before completing the dish with caramelised onion gravy and a range of the Bull’s home-made mustards and pickles.

Mr Chasteauneuf said, “The great British banger is one of the all-time favourite pub dishes, partly because it has such a wonderful affinity with great British ale. So creating a sausage that combined Alf Turner’s quality British pork with Brakspear Triple Ale was a real treat and we were delighted with the final result – a traditional sausage which has an added richness from the addition of the Triple.

“It was rewarding to win an award for a sausage created for the Bull and we’re looking forward to offering it, and other winning bangers, to our customers on Good Friday.”

He added, “We have a good relationship with Alf Turner and are working closely with them all the time to develop new dishes for the Bull’s menu.”

All the sausages offered as part of the Festival at the Bull are award-winners and Dragon’s Fury was developed  with ‘Dragon’s Den’ star Peter Jones, who has been a shareholder in Alf Turner since the butcher appeared on the television programme, and has helped to secure wider distribution for their sausages and other products.

Caption to above image: Rob Chasteauneuf, head chef at the Bull on Bell Street, with the Brakspear Triple Bangers