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When I'm right no one remembers ...
When I'm wrong none of you feckers let's me forget
When I'm wrong none of you feckers let's me forget
Modest too.Ditto for me! Although the times that I am wrong are very very rare.
Wilpshire Blue
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Not the same sort of fest but currently at the Pendle Beer Festival in Colne.
More ale than you can shake a stick at and a direct train from Blackburn.
Beltin'
More ale than you can shake a stick at and a direct train from Blackburn.
Beltin'
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but its dingleshire
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Just on train home.
Have to admit that ive probably been drinking in the company of six-fingered folk.
Bloody good ale regardless
Have to admit that ive probably been drinking in the company of six-fingered folk.
Bloody good ale regardless
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They probly bathed there sister in the water before brewing .
Really? Order me some of that!
tbh Although I've only been to a couple I dislike beer festivals immensely and won't readily go again. I'm sure brewerys get rid of shit beer through them. In my day there was a term for a bad pint, 'It tastes as bad as Blackpool beer' cos Blackpool was where every brewery sent a bad batch to get rid of it. Now that Blackpools out of favour the beer festivals will do instead. Make some shit beer, give it a daft name like Old Grocklehurst or similar and send it off to the beer festivals. Worse still lots of the stuff is served by gravity and not pulled properly. I'm happy to stick to my locals.
tbh Although I've only been to a couple I dislike beer festivals immensely and won't readily go again. I'm sure brewerys get rid of shit beer through them. In my day there was a term for a bad pint, 'It tastes as bad as Blackpool beer' cos Blackpool was where every brewery sent a bad batch to get rid of it. Now that Blackpools out of favour the beer festivals will do instead. Make some shit beer, give it a daft name like Old Grocklehurst or similar and send it off to the beer festivals. Worse still lots of the stuff is served by gravity and not pulled properly. I'm happy to stick to my locals.
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
The one I was at yesterday is a proper CAMRA Beer festival.
True, most is gravity-fed but to have each beer dispensed by hand pump would mean either reducing the number of beers on offer or holding the event in a much larger venue.
This one was at Colne Muni and had over 100 real ales, ciders and perries.
This year, half of the ales are from northern breweries and half from southern breweries, so you get to try some beers that you are unlikely to see in your local.
Definitely not selling off crap that nobody wants.
Daftest name I saw for a beer last night was "side pocket for a toad" - didn't try it.
Anyway it's on all day today and tomorrow so give it a try Drog - you know you want to
True, most is gravity-fed but to have each beer dispensed by hand pump would mean either reducing the number of beers on offer or holding the event in a much larger venue.
This one was at Colne Muni and had over 100 real ales, ciders and perries.
This year, half of the ales are from northern breweries and half from southern breweries, so you get to try some beers that you are unlikely to see in your local.
Definitely not selling off crap that nobody wants.
Daftest name I saw for a beer last night was "side pocket for a toad" - didn't try it.
Anyway it's on all day today and tomorrow so give it a try Drog - you know you want to
Exactly my point WB. Who can try em all? May as well choose from 10-20 max served properly.
Wilpshire Blue
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Not me, that's for sure
It isn't so much the trying of all 100 but the range of choice.
I get fed up going into pubs and seeing any combination of
Wainwright
Thwaites original
Bomber
Nutty Black
Hen Harrier
Blond Witch
White Witch
Moorehouses premier
Pride of Pendle
Dizzy Blonde
Landlord
In conjunction with a combination of ales from Three Bs, Hopstar and Big Clock breweries.
Don't get me wrong, plenty of fine ales in that list but I love to try different ales and there are too few pubs doing that in the area.
A special mention to 1B Tap in Great Harwood and Hoppy Days in Longridge who both do a fantastic job of providing ever-changing ales from all over the country.
My favourite ale last night was named "Mutiny on the Bounty" and I'd rather have a gravity-fed pint of that than the best kept and served pint of Marston-brewed Wainwright.
As far as I am concerned I would rather not bother with gravity dispensed beer. If it is not pumped it is not worth drinking. Drog is right. 8 to ten beers properly pumped is more than sufficient.The one I was at yesterday is a proper dispensed beer. number of beers on offer or holding the event in a much larger venue.
This one was at Colne Muni and had over 100 real ales, ciders and perries.
This year, half of the ales are from northern breweries and half from southern breweries, so you get to try some beers that you are unlikely to see in your local.
Definitely not selling off crap that nobody wants.
Daftest name I saw for a beer last night was "side pocket for a toad" - didn't try it.
Anyway it's on all day today and tomorrow so give it a try Drog - you know you want to
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looking for a tent this week . my last one was a shit bear tosspot grylls one and it was awful. Whats the camping shop on king st like for cheap 4 man festival tents 50 quid max?
Old Darwen Blue
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Go Outdoors on Bank Top is much better pal.
Reidy You're A Star
Active Member
If you're looking to do some proper camping, then you'll need to spend much more than 50 quid. Probably around 200 - 400 quid for a proper 4 man tent. If you're just looking to get pissed and dick about at a festival in it, then Aldi or Argos will do a 2 man tent for under 50 quid. But expect it to be shit and not even slightly water proof.