We can't thank this guy enough! The knowledge and passion were overwhelming, and the quality of beer matched it

My kinda madness.

We've made it to Salt Brewery for a talk, tasting and tour from the Ossett Brewery folks.

We've arrived in Leeds! A quick stop at The Hop on our way to Salt Brewery, and of course some of our party asked for the sparklers to be taken off 🤦

We now know what US Breweries have shipped us beer... pborobeerfest.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php...

Another one coming from the States that I'm particularly interested in: Martha's Exchange - Prince Ludwig's Kentish Holiday - 4.7% Oktoberfest Marzen malt base, and using Tettnang and East Kent Goldings hops with an English ale yeast.

We had another site visit this morning, this time to chat with the council about vehicle and pedestrian access to the festival. We'll be running it mostly the same as last year, with part of the Bishops Road car park being set aside for a drop off/pick up point for taxis and private cars.

US cask beer in a nice chilled shipping container about to start its journey half way across the world to our festival!

We've just got the list of which beers the Americans are sending over in cask, and while there's not as many as we'd hoped (shipping issues), there's some absolute stunners on there!

This weekend we've gone through the beers coming in for the regional round of SIBA annual beer awards and it's been really encouraging to see what were once thought of as "traditional" breweries expanding into more modern styles as well as keg...

We're deep into beer ordering and just heard from a brewery that they're letting us have a small keg of barrel-aged imperial stout that they'd reserved for a rainy day. This has been described as one of the best beers ever made, so we're glad we asked if they still had some!

The beer list for the SIBA competition were hosting is in, and the order list for the World Beer Bar is in, and I'm away in Manchester for the weekend on a break, but there's no rest for the wicked so I'm merging beer lists while waiting for friends to arrive. It's looking all kinds of awesome!

One of our great neighbours who are always a great support for us!

Meeting over in 31 minutes, that's a new record!

Well, of we're at The Brewery Tap ahead of a festival open meeting, it'd be rude not to sample the beers...

We've got our July open meeting today, 3pm at The Brewery Tap in Peterborough. It'll be a quick round up of progress and changes followed by your chance to ask any questions about the festival.

When the great Roger Protz asks, we can't deny We're now on BlueSky!