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Tickets avaiable now for The Great British Beer Festival – Britain’s biggest beer festival

I have a few days off in August to go to the Britain’s biggest and best beer festival this year ( 2-6 August 2011), my hotel is booked, and the tickets for the event have been released today – now only need a cheap train fare from Cardiff to London and I will be sorted. […]

I have a few days off in August to go to the Britain’s biggest and best beer festival this year ( 2-6 August 2011), my hotel is booked, and the tickets for the event have been released today – now only need a cheap train fare from Cardiff to London and I will be sorted.

I have not been for many years – since 2000 in fact when Bullmastiff Gold jointly won Gold for the bitter class , but can’t remember much then as we had a bus from the now closed Royal Hotel (which was Bullmastiff brewery tap of sorts at the time)

As you would expect there will be a great selection of beers from lots of brewerys, big & small.

The Camra Bars

* B4 – Harris Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Aberdeen & Grampian, Argyll & The Isles, Ayrshire & Arran, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Borders, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumbria
* B5 – Nelson Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Channel Islands, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Durham
* B6 – Montgomery Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Devon, Dorset, Dumfries, East Sussex, East Yorkshire, Edinburgh & Lothians
* B7 – Scott Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Essex, Fife, Glamorgan, Glasgow & Clyde Valley, Gloucestershire, Gwent
* P1 – Wellington Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Highlands & Western Isles, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight Kent, Leicestershire & Rutland
* P4 – Treo Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Loch Lomond, Stirling & The Trossachs, London, Merseyside, Mid Wales
* P5 – Cavell Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Manchester, North East Wales, North West Wales, Northamptonshire, Northern Isles, Northumberland
* P6 – Jones Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northern Ireland
* P7 – Mountbatten Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset
* P8 – Budd Bar
Featuring Real Ale from South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey
* W4 – Kitchener Bar
Featuring Real Ale from Tayside, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Wales
* W6 – Trenchard Bar
Featuring Real Ale from West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire
* B2 – Dobbs Bar
Young and Upcoming Breweries – sponsored by JD Wetherspoon
* B8 – Drake Bar
Featuring Real Ales in a Bottle
* W5 – Cook Bar
Freaturing Real Ciders and Perry

The Brewery bars

Some great names there

By Andrew Wilcox

Andrew Wilcox is a freelance web developer and digital marketing consultant based in Penarth, Wales, with over 25 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on numerous large news websites and content management systems within the media sector, and now helps businesses of all sizes with web development, SEO and digital marketing. Andrew is also the founder of the nationally recognised Shed of the Year competition, now in its 20th year, which he grew from an online project into a television partnership.