Great British Beer Festival 9th Aug 12noon The Earls Court, London

I have been all week, while you lot have been not drinking good beer. now is your time to play. entry is around 8 quid (don't know i get in free) beer is around 2.60 a pint, best real ales, and fat anti-social men in Brittan under one roof.

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Chris Crash

Hmmm..... fat brits drinking dodgy gut swelling squit brewing beer.... I'M IN!!! :)

Any Adnams on show?

My mates got a house in Southwold, proper posh they are, have spent maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany a night in the pub next to the lighthouse dribbling myself into a stupor on broadside/explorer....

Adnams rule... they still deliver their ale locally by horse and cart, a bit like youngs used to until very recently

yes, but ask any adnams tied pub landlord an he'll tell you a sob story.

they make great beer, have a lovely new eco-building, but treat their people like shite.

my parents ran two adnams pubs back in the 70's , it was the same situation then. The non-adnams pubs still buy the beer wholesale (for less) and flog it cheaper than the tied pubs, which sounds spazzy but true.

I'm going on friday. It will be excellent.

tommy i will be around on fri as well, find me.

wibble, i'm sure there is, but have not seen it :(

I've not heard about that before, seems a bit shite of them to be honest..

As you say, great beer (The latest carbon neutral 'East Green' is really nice) and I guess that fools you a bit into thinking they might not be such a big nasty brewery.. :(

Edit: Also, would be there if it weren't for being back in Suffolk.. Oh well, I have a bottle of Explorer in the fridge

I'll be there with a 6'7" welsh man. It makes me even easier to spot.

BRM.... well, he looks welsh :)

Yes.. much carnage begins at these things. I was the only person to bring a glass back alive..

Yes.. much carnage begins at these things. I was the only person to bring a glass back alive..

that looks like last years.

i don't like Adnams beer much, it's over rated.

I like Broadside - and the fact their bottles use less glass than normal. Easier to carry home loads of them :)

that looks like last years.

or the year before's?

Gee fif tht e2 2006 gibe it away,..???? Nowaysdsdo;hsbn

I went yesterday, very good fun. If you like proper cloudy, dry cider try Pipkin, amazing.

What's the perry and scrumpy scene like?

Has Cambridge/Milton Brewery got a stand?

about 30 perrys and about 70 cider, and I don't recall of neither of them having onw stand, only big breweries are having one