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Beer gets on the bike at Denver Convention Center. As a veteran of the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) visiting the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) for the first time, you’re inevitably drawn to make comparisons. And the one that comes spontaneously to my mind is that the GABF is, well, sexier. Although […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), organised annually by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), is a remarkable event. This year almost 67,000 people, about 5% more than last year, drank about 114,000l (200,000 pints) of over 700 beers, faciliated by over 1,000 volunteers. This makes it the […] Handpumps in the King William IV, Leyton, London E10 London is the crucible of industrial brewing, the birthplace of several key world beer styles and the capital of one of the world’s greatest brewing nations, but in the last few years its brewing activity had been starting to look embarassingly sparse. Young’s and […] Zythos Bierfestival 2010 The Zythos Bierfestival is the flagship event of the Belgian beer consumers’ organisation Zythos, earning multiple stars, a three line whip and a smudge of highlighter pen in many a beer diary, and a great way to get a rounded view of the multifaceted Belgian brewing scene in one fell […] The Rake, London SE1 The Rake, a tiny pub on the edge of London’s Borough Market, is a serious specialist beer venue that in a few short years has become one of the UK’s main attractions for the international beer appreciation circuit, a must-do on the itinerary. The first day of the pub’s […] Des de Moor and CAMRA North London tasters, Wenlock Arms, London N1, February 2010. Photo: John Cryne Visiting a great beer pub like the Wenlock Arms, in London N1 on the uncertain border between Hoxton and Islington, reminds me I don’t go to the pub enough. And I wasn’t even here to enjoy […] Would you buy a CAMRA membership from this man? National Winter Ales Festival, Manchester 2010. Photo: Tim Hampson The National Winter Ales Festival is very much the little brother of CAMRA’s two national festivals: with an attendance of 8,350 this year, it’s about an eighth the size of the Great British Beer Festival […] |
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