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Leicester Beer Festival 2010 Report
The annual four day Leicester Beer Festival started off on Wednesday 10th March 2010 at 5pm at The Charotar Patidar Samaj, our tenth festival at this venue. The festival this year featured over 220 different beers and over 40 perrys and ciders. Beers were sourced from all of the Leicestershire & Rutland breweries and as many breweries as possible that are within 25 miles of Leicester on our LocAle bar. Our Cider Bar also featured local cider with Farmer Fear’s appearing from Sutton Bonington. Our Guest Ales bar featured 130 beers at any one time from some of the newest and smallest micro-breweries along with some very popular breweries. We also featured a Ginger Beer this year but it was so popular we had sold all 120 pints of it by Thursday evening! We had a good selection of “festival specials” based on our light hearted “Roman” theme. The most popular was “Biggus Dickus” from Nobbys Brewery at Guilsborugh. Other popular specials were fruit beers “Nisus Wettus” and “Sillius Soddus” from Church End Brewery, “Roman Orgy” from Parish and “Seize a Beaver” from Belvoir Brewery at Old Dalby. Another record-breaking attendance saw 4920 people attend during the event and consume over 17000 pints of beer along with over 1600 pints of cider and perry. Friday was again the busiest day with 1924 people visiting over the duration of the day. Some people had to wait a while outside in the evening due to our hall capacity being reached. We apologise for this and appreciate your patience, most people tell us they want to stay at the Charotar because they like it so much. We opened on Saturday with a big choice of beers so that we would not run out, indeed we closed with over 60 beers left on to maintain choice right to the end. The first beer to run out was from the Madcap Brewery – Annandale Gold early on Thursday. Our CAMRA membership stand recruited 32 new members to Leicester CAMRA and we welcome all of you to our branch. The authentic Indian curries were a real success and our traditional English food counter manned by CAMRA volunteers was busy as always. Indeed we got through 700 Pork Pies and 700 Sausage Rolls along with 5 full Stiltons! People were also very complimentary about the cobs which were sourced from Ethels Bakery. Once again we collected for LOROS by means of collection buckets and the sale of pumpclips - Thank You. We would like to thank everyone who attended for making the event so successful. We would also like to thank Everards Brewery and all of our LocAle sponsors and beer agency suppliers: Boggart, Beer My Guest, Shardlow and Avalon for supplying some fantastic beers. Andy Sales Back to Festivals in the Full Archive. |
