Why am I going to all those beer festivals?

All these BF50 Challenge posts have a reason.

Simple, I am raising money for Help For Heroes.  Please go here to donate. Thank you.

41 down, 9 to go so I am confident I will reach my target, but the question now is how many will I reach in total.

Any donation will be be gratefully received.

Ian.

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1/12/15

Off to Hackney for possibly my last festival of 2015.

Two visits made, lots of new breweries for me. Very good festival. Just 36 thirds consumed.

Heres a photo from the balcony.

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18/11/15

Rochford Beer Festival

Oops, forgot to take photos, so here is what I drank instead.

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12/11/15

Another Egham beer festival and yes it is within the rules of the challenge.

State of play from the infamous blackboard on opening 13/11/15

14/11/15 I was on door duty for a couple of hours and some photos taken in between welcoming visitors.

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7/11/15

Woking Beer Festival. I worked the lunchtime session.

Views of the main hall:

In the smaller hall is a Wurlitzer organ. This is relayed to a video screen in the main hall.

Below are a couple of short video clips.

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5/11/15

A trip to a beer festival at the 2014 CAMRA North Surrey Pub of the Year.

The highlight was the launch of a brand new brewery from Staines.

And the beer festival outside

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31/10/15

My first visit to the village of Sandhurst in Berkshire.

The Rose & Crown there was having a Halloween Beer Festival so off I went.

There were a few extra beers set up in part of the bar.

The handpumps were for cider.

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30/10/15

A visit to the Star in Godalming for their Halloween beer festival. Unfortunately a few of the beers in the outside bar were not ready, plus I also forgot to take a photo of it.

So just a couple of photos of the outside of the pub.

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29/10/15

A visit to to the 11th Redhill beer festival conveniently located a couple of minutes walk from Merstham station.

The highlight would have been a beer from the new Godstone brewery but unfortunately it was not ready to be sold.

A number of green hop beers were tasted here. Green hops are those that are harvested from the bine and go into the beer without being dried out first.

Just the 2 photos this time

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22/10/15

A viit to the Twickenham Beer Festival.

After the previous days long journey, a short journey for this one.

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21/10/15

A favourite beer festival of mine. Set in a wonderful little community pub in Henlow. The Engineers Arms epitomises what a community pub should be.

I got there by train to Arlesey station, then a 25 minute walk along the footpath past The Grange/

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17/10/15

Second festival today was at the Prince of Wales, just round the corner from Farnborough North station.

the beer list

and the beers themselves

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17/10/15

The Oxford CAMRA beer festival

On the Saturday they have a separate bar for beers on sale Saturday only.

This was the stillage for the previous 2 days

And finally my table companions

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15/10/15

A great little pub very close to Canonbury station.

the beer list, 16 were on stillage and 5 on handpump

The outside of the pub:

And inside, the festival stillage: