The 46th Norwich Beer Festival begins on the! 17th October and ends on the 2nd November. The link is https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorwichBeerFestival/?ref=share .Unlike most of the previous festivals it will not be at it’s spiritual home of St Andrews and Blackfriars Halls. Building work continues. This year it will be peripatetic, covering three sites with a host of fringe events. It’s a great event that has evolved over the years from just Blackfriars Hall to the whole complex. It has been the making, and mainstay, of the Norwich and District branch of CAMRA. Many friendships and contacts have been made, business opportunities created and has been is a jewel in the multi faceted life of Norwich and Norfolk.
I can recommend a visit to both the festival and Norwich itself, outside of the event there are so many great pubs and interesting places to visit in the city. The inhabitants are friendly, mostly, unless you mention the Binmen down the road. It’s a bike friendly city, although there are hills everywhere, two cathedrals, a castle, river through the middle and the countries oldest cast concrete public urinal ( now sadly disused).
The festival itself features many ales, ciders and world beers, and an eclectic mix of volunteer staff. Thoroughly entertaining, they are only too pleased to help and demonstrate their knowledge, or lack, of the subject. Many are old hands although new faces appear every year. Treat them all gently and you will be surprised at the warm Norfolk welcome you will receive.
Thas th’ lot fer to’day bor. Gotta be a troshin’.
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