Bristol Beer Festival 2010

The 13th annual Bristol Beer Festival was held in Brunel’s Old Station at Temple Meads Bristol on 19 and 20 March 2010. Organised by unpaid volunteers from CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) this event was a great success with tickets selling out in advance for all sessions. We have received very positive customer feedback from people telling us they thought it was the best festival yet. Our new pint glasses (sponsored by Cheddar Ales and also marked for 1/3rd and ½ pint measures) proved very popular with customers and gave maximum flexibility as to how much of a particular beer, cider or perry they wanted to taste. Not only did the festival start off with a huge range of beer, but when it closed at the end of the final session on Saturday night there was still a great range of 73 beers still on, so there was plenty of choice right up until the end.

A copy of the beer festival programme can be viewed here: http://www.camrabristol.org.uk/Prog2010.pdf

This year the Bristol Beer Festival made a real feature of our locally brewed real ales by putting them all together on our new “LocAle” bar. We also held a special “LocAle of the Festival” competition. The judging of 27 'LocAle' beers was carried out by a panel of twelve tasters and the results were: