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Author Topic: Beer Is Good for you Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-04-2005 09:02 AM                        Click here: http://www.brackenspub.com/beer.swf  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 08-04-2005 12:46 PM                     It's a pity you're not in London this week Bob; It's the Great British Beer Festival. web page You can see the scale of the thing from some of the photos. Sadly, it's the last year at this venue, and I don't like the place it's moving to. They do serve some Amercan beers in the international section, bottled ones rom the smaller brewers, but no Budweiser as far as I know.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-04-2005 01:07 PM                     I'll bet the American beer section of that festival is the least visited one... , lol.  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 08-04-2005 01:16 PM                     I guess there will be Belgian beers on this festival too. For beer-lovers (like me), Belgium is a real paradise! A lot of different beer specialities are brewed there (maybe someone knows "Rodenbach" which is my absolute favourite?).  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 08-04-2005 02:28 PM                     Mike, there isn't an American section as such, but an international section, known as 'Bières sans Frontières'. This is only a small part of the festival, but you will still find maybe fifty or a hundred people queuing up at this bar. How many of them are buying American beers is difficult to say, but some of the American beers from the smaller brewers are highly regarded. The 'B' stuff tends not to be. There are probably something like twenty American beers available. The programme for this years festival says: "We've always been proud of our achievements with beer from North America. Did you know that CAMRA hosts the longest running American Real Ale Festival? The craft brewers of North America contince to push boundries and produce beer of real dept hand complexity" CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale) are the organisers of the festival. Acording to the web site there are about 450 different British Beers on offer, It doesn't say how many foreign ones, but there are long lists hanging up, maybe another hundred, then there must be something like 70 ciders and perries, Plus books, t-shirts etc., and lots of food. I don't normally drink beer, but I do go every year. Last year there were about 46,000 visitors over the five days. Dieter, yes there are plenty of Belgian beers, and Czech ones of course, plus many other countries.  |  IP: Logged

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