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2012-02-09 Upcoming beer festivals

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It’s time for a beer festival update. It’s now late February and a few of the previous lists have past but more importantly we’ve moved to London. This might move the main focus slightly south from Cambridge, though I’m sure anything that can be easily reached from here isn’t too far away from Cambridge either and vice versa. The Battersea Beer Festival is on as I’m writing and I’m planning a quick trip there tomorrow before going to Denmark for the weekend. I’ve been a bit cheeky and added the big Cambridge Beer Festival, even though it’s not on until May, but it’s always a great one, though this will be the first one for me where I don’t live in Cambridge, which will inevitably make it a bit less convenient. On the other hand is the Camden one, just by Kings Cross, going to be really easy with about 15 minutes walk home.

Date Location Festival
 8-10 Feb London 22nd Battersea Beer Festival
16-18 Feb Luton 29th Luton Beer & Cider Festival
15-18 Feb Derby 11th Derby Winter Beer Festival
17-18 Feb Ely 3rd Elysian Beer Festival
24-25 Feb Chappel 3rd Chappel Winter Beer Festival
 7- 9 Mar Camden 28th London Drinker Beer & Cider Festival
 9-10 Mar Hitchin Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival
15-17 Mar St Neots The 37th ‘Booze on the Ouse’ Beer & Cider Festival
12-14 Apr Sidcup, London 7th Bexley Beer Festival
25-28 Apr Bury St Edmunds East Anglia Beer Festival
 2- 6 May Reading 18th Reading Beer & Cider Festival
21-26 May Cambridge 39th Cambridge Beer Festival

2012-01-04 Upcoming beer festivals

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A new year has begun, and I’ve started looking forward to what it will bring of ale enjoyment. However, it’s a slow start in the South East, and the list below is both a bit short and does include some events that are a bit further away, though they do sound like they would be worth a journey. Above all it includes the Cambridge Winter Ales Festival, which is always the place to be for me in the winter (even if this winter isn’t that wintry).

Date Location Festival
18-21 Jan Manchester National Winter Ales Festival
19-21 Jan Cambridge 16th Cambridge Winter Ales Festival
19-21 Jan Colchester 5th Colchester Winter Ales Festival
3 – 4 Feb Dover 19th White Cliffs Festival of Winter Ales
8 -10 Feb London 22nd Battersea Beer Festival
15-18 Feb Derby 11th Derby Winter Beer Festival
17-18 Feb Ely 3rd Elysian Beer Festival
24-25 Feb Chappel 3rd Chappel Winter Beer Festival
16-17 Mar St Neots The 37th ‘Booze on the Ouse’ Beer & Cider Festival

2011-09-22 Upcoming beer festivals

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Date Location Festival
22-24 Sep Letchworth 20th Letchworth Garden City Beer & Cider Festival
28- 1 Oct St Albans St Albans Beer Festival
 5- 8 Oct Bedford 34th Bedford Beer & Cider Festival
12-15 Oct Milton Keynes 18th Concrete Pint Beer Festival
13-15 Oct Wallington 18th Croydon & Sutton Real Ale & Cider Festival
14-15 Oct Cambridge Cambridge & District CAMRA 5th Cambridge Octoberfest
21-22 Oct Chester Chester Real Ale Festival
24-29 Oct Norwich 34th Norwich Beer Festival
27-29 Oct Twickenham 11th Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival
27-29 Oct Sawbridgeworth 5th Sawbridgeworth Beer Festival
27-29 Oct Birmingham Birmingham Beer Festival
22-26 Nov Rochford 33rd Rochford Beer & Cider Festival
30- 3 Dec Dovercourt Harwich & Dovercourt Bay Winter Ales Festival
 6-10 Dec Hackney Pigs Ear Beer Festival

Upcoming Local Beer Festivals

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Date Location Festival
28-30 Jul Bishops Stortford 3rd Bishops Stortford Beer Festival
 2- 6 Aug Earls Court, London Great British Beer Festival
18-21 Aug Ipswich Ipswich Beer Festival
23-27 Aug Peterborough 34th Peterborough Beer Festival
 6-10 Sep Chappel 25th Chappel Beer Festival
 9-10 Sep St Ives, Cambs St Ives Booze on the Ouse Beer Festival
15-17 Sep York York Beer and Cider Festival
16-17 Sep Melton Mawbray 9th Melton Mowbray Beer Festival
22-24 Sep Letchworth 20th Letchworth Garden City Beer & Cider Festival
28- 1 Oct St Albans St Albans Beer Festival
 5- 8 Oct Bedford 34th Bedford Beer & Cider Festival
12-15 Oct Milton Keynes 18th Concrete Pint Beer Festival
13-15 Oct Wallington 18th Croydon & Sutton Real Ale & Cider Festival
27-29 Oct Twickenham 11th Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival
27-29 Oct Birmingham Birmingham Beer Festival

Beer Festival

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Tomorrow is not just Saturday, it’s not just the day after pay day, but it’s beer festival day!

… Of course you could argue that most days (if not all), there’s a beer festival somewhere. But is that important? It’s not as important to me, as the fact that there’s a beer festival tomorrow that I’m going to. That makes all the difference.

Does that make me selfish? I guess it’s natural for someone to look forward to something _they_ are going to do, rather than something other people will do, however much fun they might have. Of course, if it was on TV and I watched how other people were having fun that might make me feel all happy and warm inside. Why is that? I know there are lots of people out there having fun, but if I see it on TV, it makes me happy (even if not as happy as having fun myself). Of course this isn’t news to the world, and it’s been long since the media world discovered how they could make lots of people happy just by showing them how other people were doing just what they wanted to do, be it eating expensive food in a fancy restaurant, travelling to amazing locations, or just having a lovely time. This way they could all be happy in front of the TV (and its adverts) rather than actually go out and experience things themselves. And if something wasn’t as great as they’d hoped they could just change the channel…

Anyway, tomorrow I’m going to a beer festival, and that’s good for me 🙂 And I get to go to somewhere I’ve never been before. That’s always exciting 🙂

Now, this isn’t much of a topic for a blog post… but I felt like writing some… anything… after being “away” for such a long time… and something that isn’t about sandwiches at all 😛