Eastbourne beer festival tickets up for grabs now
By: JimOldfield
August 30th, 2012
Tickets have gone on sale for the Eastbourne Beer Festival – with its organisers hoping to top last year’s record sell-out event that saw more than 4,500 real ale lovers in attendance at the town’s Winter Gardens. A staggering 13,707 pints went down at the three-day event – setting a stiff target for this year’s Read the full post…
Thanks for braving the rain folks – now come and drink in the snow!
By: JimOldfield
August 14th, 2012
A colossal 18,000 real ale lovers braved the summer rainstorms to visit Essex’s Chelmsford Beer Festival last month… and their reward will be to get another next February! Following the huge success of the Admirals Park event, despite the foul weather, the Chelmsford and Mid-Essex CAMRA branch decided to repeat the event in midwinter. What’s Read the full post…
Coniston’s heavy water takes gold at CAMRA Beer Olympics 2012!
By: JimOldfield
August 7th, 2012
Forget the stuff going on down the road at Stratford – the REAL Olympics were held by CAMRA today, when the annual Great British Beer Festival opened at… Olympia! And it was the Cumbrians of Coniston Brewing Company who wowed a packed hall by being named as the Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) with a Read the full post…
Flower queen brews up a crowning floral ale
By: JimOldfield
August 7th, 2012
A carnival queen has helped brew-up a carniv-ale for revellers in Jersey this weekend to toast the Island’s giant annual flower parade. Jersey’s Liberation Brewery has created fruity rose-flavoured “Floration” to serve to thirsty revellers at the annual floral float contest, Battle of Flowers, in St Helier – which is expected to draw up to Read the full post…
Americans invade Great British Beer Festival
By: JimOldfield
August 5th, 2012
Britain’s biggest pub opens its doors on Tuesday, when Olympia welcomes back CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival. And with organisers in a race against time to get on board the promised EIGHT HUNDRED different ales, this year sees a veritable Yank ale invasion. The first incarnation of the beer list was made public last week Read the full post…
CAMRA champ Harvest Pale is the rock to found a castle on!
By: JimOldfield
July 29th, 2012
Castle Rock’s Harvest Pale ale has brought in a bumper crop for the Nottingham brewery – by helping boost its turnover by more than £1m! Winning CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain title at the GBBF in August 2010 was the springboard to Harvest Pale’s success, and over the year to last March its sales Read the full post…
Kids’ charity benefits from huge North-East ale festival
By: JimOldfield
July 24th, 2012
One of the North-East’s biggest beer festivals is giving 10 per cent of its take to a children’s charity this year. The sixth Tynemouth Beer Festival takes place from September 13-15 – and its organisers have chosen the Children’s Foundation to benefit from it. “The foundation supports medical research into childhood illnesses and conditions and Read the full post…
Go Lune-y – help out at Morecambe’s first beer festival!
By: JimOldfield
July 15th, 2012
Real ale comes to the seaside this year, when the Lunesdale CAMRA branch launches its first-ever Morecambe Beer Festival. But if you’re a red-roser, they need YOUR help to pull it off! Some 50 real ales and 10 ciders go on show at the town’s newly-reopened Winter Gardens, next month. But the organisers need help Read the full post…
Win FREE tickets to CAMRA’s Great British Beer Fest
By: JimOldfield
July 8th, 2012
Want a seat at the Olympics… the Real Ale Olympics, that is? Well now you can get TWO of them, for FREE… thanks to CAMRA and Hand-Pumped! The quest for gold is on once more, as Britain’s best brewers battle it out for the nation’s top real ale medals at the Campaign for Real Ale’s Read the full post…
Lightning strikes eight times as ‘UK ale’ is voted best beer in California!
By: JimOldfield
July 5th, 2012
A Californian brewery has created the best craft beer in the entire state… after brewing it with a mix of ingredients sourced from the UK! San Diego’s Lightning Brewery topped 476 entries from 60 breweries across the state, to take Best of Show at the California State Fair Commercial Brewing Competition, with its Old Tempestuous Read the full post…
