Hi! Blod’s ‘ere.
It’s all been happening since the last part. Didn’t
England play well in the World Cup? What about that Beckham
the spoilt, overpaid pillock! At least he got his just
desserts – he married a Spice Girl.. that should last all
of ten minutes.
Then there was the outstanding success at Wimbledon, an
Englishman reached the semi’s. Good old Buster! I knew he
would go on to greater things when he left Bad Manners
(there! that’s one that’s straight over the heads of
anyone under thirty).
We’ve had the Tour de France, with all the scandal of the
riders allegedly taking dope.. Well, what do they expect, it
is sponsored by Coke! I do enjoy the T de F though, all that
scenery and the mountains. Ah! that takes me back to my home
land, Land of my Fathers, where men are men and sheep are
worried. Whoops! Big Ed tells me I’m supposed to be
writing about beer!
Well, I’m drinking it at the moment, if that counts. We
had the success of the 3rd Newark CAMRA Beer Festival which
went ahead despite a minority group trying to scupper it.
There were over 140 beers to tickle the pallet and the event
was bigger and better than ever before. The event went ahead
without incident, which was expected, since contrary to
popular belief (by people who have never visited a
beerfest), beer drinkers are not lager louts but ordinary,
sensible people who enjoy the beer and atmosphere of the
fest (well perhaps not that sensible, come to think about
it!). CAMRA always aims to promote the fact that you can
enjoy a drink in a responsible manner. |
This brings me on to the largest beer fest
in the country - the Great
British Beer Festival at Olympia in London (which we
will have visited again this year, by the time you read this
issue). With over 400 beers available, extensive varieties
of food, games, live entertainment and beery items for sale,
it is a quite unique experience and I can only encourage you
to give it a try.
It is quite remarkable the different types
of people you see from city gents and dolly birds, to
stereotypical beer guzzlers (beer bellies and beards) and
vicars, to dollies dressed as vicars (no - only joking, just
trying to get Big Ed excited).
There are quite a few beer fests which are fairly local to
Newark which you may be unaware of. Peterborough, held in
August, (about eight quid return by train from Northgate
station) is the 2nd largest outside London, which I highly
recommend
Another is Sheffield in September, which we visited
for the first time last year, but didn’t go down too well
with Big Ed (I told him not to drink that Chilli flavoured
beer!)
One way to keep up to date with all the beer fests is to join
CAMRA, then you receive an excellent monthly newspaper,
which not only gives all the latest beery news, but gives
you all the beer fest dates and locations.
If that wasn’t astounding good value enough, by joining
CAMRA, you get into beer fests at a discounted price, if not
for free... what a bargain! What a sales pitch! Big Ed,
I’m in for commission here surely? Anyway I must wind up
here and open another Riggwelleter.
Iechyd da (yakky da, to you) for now.
Aug. '98 |
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