Friday, November 03, 2006

Beer Festival

My brother and I popped along to Hulls anual beer festival yesterday afternoon. The above photo only shows about half the beers on offer, there was a bar with hand-pulled beer that ran the length of the other wall, and in another room there was also a bar selling 20 differant ciders and perry's plus 10 selected German and Belgian bottled beers, I think there was 70 'real ales' on offer .
It was held inside the city hall. We got there around 14:00 and stayed till 20:00 and managed to try 16 ales and 2 ciders, even had some good fortune on the tombola for the second year running, winning a bottle of whisky, a t-shirt, 4 bottled beers, Jack Daniels playing cards, 4 free half pints of beer at the event, a make-up bag for my sister and 2 free pints of beer at a pub who sponsored the event in Beverley (a town 20 mins drive from Hull) that was with £6 worth of tickets, so not a bad haul. And as an added bonus I didn't wake up with a hangover, which is always a plus.
Downside is that no friends turned up, but we managed to meet a few decent folk! and a couple of oddballs as well, including a guy who was just like 'Otto the school bus driver' in 'The Simpsons' which was bizzare!
I intended to take more photo's but it slipped my mind as I drank more and more beer...sorry!

5 comments:

Louisiana said...

oh i have missed your posts..a little bump on the road but i hope it's all done with..

i know a few guys, including Joe who would just LOVE to be able to go here..and, i would surely not expect to be seeing him for the next two days..lol

Louisiana said...

so happy to have been able to make up the missed posts..left you messages.

Anonymous said...

Kev, pished again? You'll never finish your DIY geetar with these kinds of distractions :)

Anonymous said...

Terribly good look if you have a sister so you can give her the 'make-up bag for my sister' prize!

You are one hell of a gambler!

Anonymous said...

You are forgiven for not taking more photos. Under the circumstances it is entirely understandable but I do like the one you did take.

And the tombolo haul - very impressive!