Entries in the 'CAMRA Festivals' category
2013 Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival – Dates & Venue
Brilliant news: THERE WILL BE ONE! CAMRA North Herts and the Hitchin Round Table are pleased to announce that the annual Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival will be held again this year and with a new partner: Hitchin Rugby Football Club (HRFC). The festival will be taking place this year at the later-than-usual dates of Thursday 6th, [...Read on]
Letchworth 2012 – A festival of firsts
First of all, thanks to all the CAMRA volunteers for your time and The Green House for hosting the Letchworth Beer & Cider Festival.. There have been a number of ‘firsts’ on the 21st running of this festival, with the change of venue and the use of key kegs as notable examples. It has been [...Read on]
2012 Letchworth Beer & Cider Festival
Festival time is creeping upon us! Reserve September 20th, 21st, 22nd for the 2012 Letchworth Beer & Cider Festival – in a new venue for 2012: Letchworth Green House (just 200 yards/meters from the station). We’re building a great list of cask ales, real ciders, and foreign draught beers for your enjoyment at the festival. For further details [...Read on]
Hitchin Festival Report
One word summary: Success! Friday evening was crammed, over the course of the day we counted 1406 people entering the town hall. Saturday was steady but slower, 872 customers enjoyed the ales – bringing us to a total that trumps last year’s record by 104 people. Will the Hitchin festival ever shake its “runs out [...Read on]
FestyCam Hitchin 2012
See you at the festival! It’s over! See you next year?
All our time-lapse videos from the festival are below – they can all be viewed in HD mode too if you choose. Day 1, day 2, and then the set-up. Alas we didn’t get a pack-up one because somebody slept in on Sunday morning… maybe[...Read on]
Sneak peak: Hitchin Beer Festival 2012 Set-Up
*Whew*! Finally finished up the Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival set-up for the day. Thanks to the CAMRA and the Round Table volunteers – some who had started before the 8:30am opening – that helped! It’s looking like a very long and intriguing list of ale, cider/perry and foreign beer that I’m waiting in rabid [...Read on]
The beer, it beckons.. 2012 Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival
Just another reminder: (at the time of writing) it’s less than 10 days to go until..
2012 Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival
Hitchin 2012 Beer & Cider Festival
Not long to go now!
Mark March 9th and 10th on your calendars for the Hitchin Beer & Cider festival. Held jointly by North Hertfordshire CAMRA and the Hitchin Round Table at the[...Read on]
Summer Wine Brewery “Diablo” – Letchworth Festival Winner
The months do fly by! It was back in September last year that we held our successful 20th Letchworth Beer Festival, and here I am now posting a story about the beer-of-the-festival win from that festival while simultaneously thinking about beers for the Hitchin festival on March 9th & 10th. "Diablo is our flagship IPA, loaded [...Read on]
2011 Letchworth Beer & Cider Festival Report
Another Letchworth Beer Festival has come and gone, making it 20 that the branch has under its collective belt now. On the stats it was a good one as Letchworth festivals go, a handful more people than last year and a reasonable range of beer available until the end but not too much left [...Read on]
