Beer Festivals 2005

Angela

Admittedly, it's a bit slim after March, but if you can plan that far ahead you need more beer ;-)

Angela

Festivals are only listed that have had their budgets approved.

It's non-existent after March. Trouble is, I need to be able to plan that far in advance :o(

Hampshire Downs Beer Festival, Overton Fri 28th - Sat 29th October 2005

- and hopefully for 2005, a 'young persons bar'. Tickets always sell-out in advance to book the date now. one of teh mostt friendly and sociable events on the calendar

Early enough notice? ;-)

John B

Cheers for that :o)

Seriously, though - a lot of other events ARE organised more than a year in advance - it makes planning a balanced social calendar tricky when beer festivals give so little notice compared to other events. See

In which case you need to contact the listed branch contacts for festivals that are being held after the info runs out.

They can give you the *proposed* festival dates. As Brett pointed out neither the web site(s) nor What's Brewing will carry information about festivals that have not yet had budget approval.

The only reason something like the Great British Beer Festival has such advanced notification for people is that the venue size etc puts the organising into a >12 month lead time on the venue booking and general organisation.

Thereby demonstrating the content of my post to be correct :-)

i.e. Ask the branches concerned...

Our festival is already advertised in many local listings, yet it is a relatively small village event. Like the Great British Beer Festival we have to book our venue a long time in advance because we have to tie in with other users - the local short mat bowls club, the tae kwon do group, the playgroup... It is little different to the GBBF.

IMO Festivals should always endeavour to advertise themselves as early as possible.

John B

Try Quaffale,

Sean.

Which I guess shows the difference between local CAMRA beer festivals and other events. (Both in their objectives and target customers)

In that case...

The 3rd CAMRA Bromsgrove Beer Festival

Friday 15th July to Saturday 16th July 2005

Venue: Bromsgrove Rugby Football Club

Cheers for that :o)

???

As an organiser of both 'types' of event i'm at a loss over this comment too.

John B

Sorry. There was a diagnosis of possible borderline epilepsy a few years back so I avoid items that flash a lot and the main page makes most discos seem tame.

The primary purpose of local CAMRA beer festivals is campainging. IMO selling beer to the converted is not campainging.

IMO advertising a festival on a web site a long time in advance makes very little difference to the campainging value of the festival.