Record number of local breweries serving up at 30th beer festival
Published Date:
29 August 2008
St Ives will be hosting the Beer Festival 2008 on Thursday to Saturday, September 11-13 when a record number of Cambridgeshire and East Anglian brewers and ciders makers will be serving up.
The festival will be held at the Burgess Hall, St Ivo Centre.
The event is celebrating its 30th birthday and will consist of 56 real ales over the duration of the festival, cider and bottles of foreign beers.
There will be real draught ciders from new cider makers in Huntingdonshire, Cromwell Cider and Ouse Valley Cider, and real ales from the new Son of Sid brewery based at the Chequers in Little Gransden.
CAMRA organiser Paul Moorhouse, from St Ives, said he hoped the event would demonstrate to pub companies the benefits of ordering locally-produced beers.
He said: "We want to show local pubs what a fantastic range of locally-brewed beers is available and the environmental benefit from reduced beer miles is obvious. And most of the East Anglian beers that we have selected are new to the festival."
Commemorative glasses at the event will include a measure of one third of a pint to enable visitors to sample more of the beers and ciders. CAMRA is campaigning for pubs to use these smaller legal measures.
>> On Thursday the festival will be open from 6pm-10.45pm, Friday has an earlier start of 5pm-10.45pm and Saturday is all day from noon-10.45pm.
Thursday and Friday have a £2 entry fee after 7pm and before 7pm the entry fee is £1.
On Saturday entry fee is £1 from noon- 10.30pm. Families are welcome until 8pm.
>> www.huntscamra.org.uk/ festivals
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29 August 2008 3:30 PM
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