Loads of beer, No beer

We did Ramsbottom Beer Festival this weekend.  The first is always the hardest to judge.  So, having gathered all of the beers, we racked them and built the bar on Thursday, ready for Friday opening.
Looking at 50 beers, I was wondering what I could do with all the beer left over...
I knew it would be a long weekend, so any sensible person would get a bit of rest. I spent the evening finishing off the brochure till 1 in the morning...
Friday Morning, and there were people queueing outside the door at 11:40!  We had 52 pumps (2 spare) and we had 3 failures, so we only had 49 beers on hand pump.

The whole weekend was packed.  I don't think I've ever seen so many people in Ramsbottom.  The first beer ran out about 8pm on the Friday.  Saturday and the beers started running out left right and centre, and we ran out of beer completely by about half nine.

A great weekend, and everybody seemed to enjoy it, except for a couple of self-proclaimed "experts" who thought it was rubbish because the beer ran out.








Just to simplify everything for the "experts".

• There is a set amount of each beer, determined by the size of the cask. 
•  If a lot of people drink 1 beer, then it will run out.  
• The beer is there to be drunk, not to be looked at, and if it gets drunk, then there is none left. 
•  If you turn up two hours from the end of a two day festival, then it is highly likely that there will not be a full range of beers available. 

 This is not rocket science, believe me.

Other than a couple of small whines, the beer festival was a fantastic success, so we will be doing it all over again!



Still adding up the total, but I think we have managed to raise a substantial amount for the RNLI, which is great.