A VILLAGE brewery has made it to the final of a national competition to win a place for its beer on a supermarket’s shelves.

Oxfordshire Ales, based in Marsh Gibbon, near Bicester, is one of just 15 regional winners of this year’s Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt.

The firm is now within a chance of getting its Churchill ale on the shelves of the supermarket giant for at least six months from November.

Two winners will be decided on September 30.

The beer will be on sale in stores for three weeks from September 7, for tipplers to try.

Brewery spokesman John Lovett said: “We are so excited to have been shortlisted.”

A total of 133 beers were tested by judges across the country.

Oliver Chadwyck-Healey, beer buyer at Sainsbury’s, said: “The fantastic quality of regional beer has really been highlighted.”