All over (the place) for another year.

For those of you who couldn't make it, and those that have trouble recalling it, here's a video of some of the fun.
There may even be a prize (or should be, at least) for anyone that can make it through half an hour of watching Kaiser Keith getting drunk!

Good luck!

Provisional Beer List

Brewer	Location	Beer	ABV
1648	Sussex	St Georges	4.4
Abbeydale	South Yorks	Broomstone	3.8
Acorn	South Yorks	Madness	4.4
Adnams	Suffolk	Bitter	3.7
Adnams	Suffolk	Explorer	4.3
Arundel	Sussex	Arundel Special Bitter	4.5
Ballards	Hants	Best Bitter	4.2
Bank Top	Lancs	Mild	4.0
Batemans	Lincs	Eggs-B	4.2
Bath	Somerset	Gem	4.1
Beowulf	Staffs
Berrow	Somerset	Silver Berrow
Blindmans	Somerset	Wet Your Whistle	4.8
Brains	Cardiff	Bread of Heaven	4.0
Breconshire	Breconshire	Brecon County Ale	3.7
Brewsters	Lincs	Daffy's Elixir	4.6
Broughton	Peebles	Exciseman's 80/-	4.6
Burton Bridge	Staffs	Top Dog Stout	5.0
Butcombe	Somerset	Brunel IPA	5.0
Cains	Liverpool	Dark Mild	3.2
Cairngorm	Highlands	Sheepshaggers Gold	4.5
Caledonian	Edinburgh	80/-	4.1
Castle Rock	Notts	Harvest Pale	3.8
City of Cambridge	Cambs	Parkers Porter	5.3
Clarks	West Yorks	Classic Blonde	3.9
Coach House	Cheshire	Gunpowder Mild	3.8
Copper Dragon	North Yorks	Challenger	4.2
Cotleigh	Devon	Tawny Owl	3.8
Cotleigh	Devon	Golden Sea Eagle	4.2
Country Life	Devon	Golden Pig	4.7
Daleside	North Yorks	Blonde	4.0
Daleside	North Yorks	Old Legover	4.1
Dark Star	Sussex	Spring Equinox	4.0
Dark Star	Sussex	Six Hop Ale	6.2
Dark Star	Sussex	Critical Mass	7.8
De Molen	Netherlands	Engels	5.0
De Molen	Netherlands	Donder & Bliksem	5.7
De Molen	Netherlands	Pek & Veren	8.0
Dorset	Dorset	Steam Bitter	4.5
Dorset	Dorset	Jurassic	4.7
Downton	Wilts	Mad Hare	4.6
Elgood	Cambs	Thin Ice	4.7
Elgoods	Cambs	Cambridge Bitter	3.8
Enville	West Midlands	Nailmaker's Mild	4
Everards	Leics	Sunchaser Blonde	4.0
Everards	Leics	Tiger Best	4.2
Everards	Leics	Original Premium Ale	5.2
Frog Island	Northampton	Natterjack	4.8
Fullers	London	Gales HSB	4.8
Fyne Ales	Argyll	Avalanche	4.5
Goachers	Kent	Fine Light Ale	3.7
Goachers	Kent	Crown Imperial Stout	4.5
Hadrian & Border	Tyne & Wear	Gladiator	3.8
Hampshire	Hants	Proposale	4.3
Harviestoun	Clackmannanshire	Bitter and Twisted	3.9
Harviestoun	Clackmannanshire	Schiehallion	4.8
Hawkshead	Cumbria	Lakeland Gold	4.4
Hawkshead	Cumbria	Brodies Prime	5.0
Highgate	West Midlands	Irish Whisky Ale	4.4
Hogs Back	Surrey	TEA	4.2
Hook Norton	Oxon	Hooky Dark	3.2
Hook Norton	Oxon	Old Hooky	4.6
Hop Back	Wilts	Crop Circle	4.2
Hopdaemon	Kent	Golden Braid	3.7
Hopdaemon	Kent	Skrimshander IPA	4.5
Houston	Renfrewshire	Tartan Terror	4.5
Inveralmond	Perth	XXX	4.4
Isle Arran	Isle of Arran	Arran Ale	3.8
Itchen Valley	Hants	Pure Gold	4.8
Kelham Island	South Yorks	Easy Rider	4.3
Kings	Sussex	Mother-in-law
Larkins	Kent	Ian	4.3
Larkins	Kent	Porter	5.2
Leeds	West Yorks	Best
Loddon	Oxon	Gravesend Shrimpers	4.1
Loddon	Oxon	Bamboozle	4.8
Marston Moor / Rudgate	North Yorks	Rudgate Battleaxe	4.2
Marstons	Staffs	Jennings Golden Host	4.3
Matthews	Somerset	Bob Wall	4.2
Millis	Kent	Strawberry Surprise	4.1
Millis	Kent	Old Kentish Ale	4.8
Moorhouses	Lancs	Pride of Pendle	4.1
Mordue	Tyne & Wear	Ponytail	?
Naylors	West Yorks	Pinnacle Mild	3.4
Nelson	Kent	Nelson's IPA	4.8
Nelson	Kent	Purser's Pussy Porter	5.1
Oakham	Cambs	Haka	5.7
O'Hanlons	Devon	Dry Stout	4.2
Orkney	Orkney	Skullsplitter	8.5
Ossett	West Yorks	Fine Fettle	4.8
Otter	Devon	Otter Ale	4.5
Phoenix	Greater Manchester	Double Gold	5
Purity	Warwicks	UBU	4.5
Ramsbury	Wilts	Gold	4.5
Ramsgate	Kent	East Kent Pale Ale	4.1
Ramsgate	Kent	No Tomorrow	8.0
RCH	Somerset	East Street Cream	5.0
Ringwood	Hants	78	4.2
Ringwood	Hants	Old Thumper	5.6
Robinsons	Cheshire	Old Tom	8.5
Rother Valley	Sussex
Salamander	West Yorks	Mud Puppy	4.2
Salopian	Shropshire
Saltaire	West Yorks	Yorkshire Pale Bitter	3.8
Saltaire	West Yorks	Amarillo Wheat	4.4
Saltaire	West Yorks	Cascade Pale Ale	4.8
Sarah Hughes	West Midlands	Dark Ruby	6.0
Shardlow	Leics	Narrowboat	4.5
Shardlow	Leics	Rev Eaton	4.5
Sharps	Cornwall	Doom Bar	4.0
Skinners	Cornwall	Heligan Honey	4.0
Skinners	Cornwall	Figgy Brew	4.5
Springhead	Notts	Liberty	3.8
Springhead	Notts	Sweet Lips	4.6
Springhead	Notts	Bitter	4
Stonehenge	Wilts	Sign of Spring	4.6
Swan-on-the-Green	Kent	Fuggles	3.6
Swan-on-the-Green	Kent	Cygnet	4.2
Taylor	West Yorks	Landlord	4.3
Three Rivers	Manchester	Manchester IPA	4.2
Thwaites	Lancs	Lancaster Bomber	4.4
Titanic	Staffs	Anchor	4.1
Titanic	Staffs	Iceberg	4.1
Titanic	Staffs	New World	4.5
Tower	Staffs	First Swallow	4.5
Tring	Herts	Side Pocket for a Toad	3.6
Triple fff	Hants	Moondance	4.2
Triple fff	Hants	Witch's Promise	6
Ventnor	Isle of Wight	Pistol Night	4.0
Weltons	Sussex
Wentworth	South Yorks	WPA	4
Wentworth	South Yorks	WPA	4
Westerham	Kent	Finchcocks Original	3.5
Westerham	Kent	Grasshopper	3.8
White Horse	Oxon	Village Idiot	4.1
Whitstable	Kent	East India Pale Ale	4.1
Whitstable	Kent	Pearl of Kent	4.5
Whitstable	Kent	Raspberry Wheat Beer	5.2
Wickwar	Glos	Cotswold Way	4.2
Wickwar	Glos	Long John Silver	4.2
Wooden Hand	Cornwall	Black Pearl Stout	4.5
Wooden Hand	Cornwall	Cornish Mutiny	4.8
Woodenhand	Cornwall	Pirate's Gold	4.0
Wyre Piddle	Worcestershire	Piddle in Colchester	4.2
York	North Yorks	Centurions Ghost	5.4

Spot The Difference.

As suggested by Fatman, let's have a go at that 'spot the difference' game.
You've already seen what I sent to the Gazzette, and here's what they published...


























I'm not one for difficult games and the Gazzette has helped out enormously by making this one quite easy.
I'm looking forward to finding out what happened tomorrow.

Thanet Gazzette.

Any of you that read the local rag on Fridays will, perhaps, have noticed that each week they've run a feature on members of the beer festival organising committee.

My turn this week, so I sent them the following....

Since the early 1970’s, CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) has been working to increase peoples’ awareness of the high quality and variety that can be available in real ale. For many years previously, this awareness had been eroded by manufacturers of mass produced lagers and fizzy keg bitters, solely on the strength of cutting production costs and increasing profits. An irony, perhaps, that a good quality real ale is almost invariably cheaper to purchase in a pub than it’s mass produced, pasteurised counterparts.

People have been drinking alcohol for around 5000 years now, mostly for the effect that it has on our brains, but some consideration needs to be taken as to how we arrive at that effect and how we will feel when that effect wears off. Comparable to, say, flying to your holiday destination and then back again. Flying first class would certainly be more comfortable and enjoyable, whereas flying second class would be a barely tolerable means to an end. Though that’s where the similarity ends, because, as already stated, drinking first class in pubs is actually cheaper!

With this concept in mind, CAMRA beer festivals were born, in order to offer an alternative to people and the chance to choose for themselves how they ‘travel’ on their journeys.

Do come along to The Winter Gardens at Easter to sample the ales and the atmosphere that accompanies them, and see for yourself!

.... along with a photo of me. In order to preserve a little mystery and suspense, I've left the photo for the paper to publish.

Entertainment for 2008

We seem to have Friday sorted out now, but Saturday's arrangements haven't been finalised yet.

Friday afternoon, back by popular demand, will be The Fling. For those of you that were there to enjoy him last year, you'll know why he's been booked again for this year.

Friday evening will see us graced by the presence of Waterhorse. Do follow the link to their website for more information about this great band.

We're planning Saturday to be a 'quiet' day with, possibly, a DJ playing background music in the afternoon and a pub quiz later to help keep the brain cells firing for that 'one last beer'.

We'll confirm Saturday when final arrangements have been made.

Some hints and tips for the Festival...

This Year's Logo

Now that we have the final draft of this year's logo, we'll be looking forward to splashing it all over the Island.
There's a prize for anyone that spots it on a poster and follows the instructions that go with it.

Good company and a wide choice of excellent beer!

You'll have to pay for the stuff, of course, but we guarantee that it'll be worth every penny.