Beer festival’s got real pulling power! (From St Helens Star)

Beer festival’s got real pulling power!

4:00pm Thursday 15th October 2009

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A NEWLY-BREWED ale inspired by our town’s landmark artwork made a Dream debut at the hugely successful St Helens CAMRA Beer Festival.

The real ale and pie fest pulled well in excess of 1,000 happy tipplers over five sessions at the North West Museum of Road Transport in Hall Street.

The new Dream ale, inspired by the town’s art icon down at Sutton Manor Colliery site was the first beer to sell out, with excellent reviews from all who sampled it.

Local brewer, George Wright of Rainford, perfected the ‘Dream’ flavour which was enhanced by good music and great food to make this year’s festival even better than before.

Friday night proved the most popular session, with at one stage more than 200 people queuing outside, as due to licensing restrictions of 499, festival organisers had to restrict access to one in one out!

Kipling ale, brewed by Thornbridge Brewery of Derbyshire, was nominated beer of the festival.

Providing the yummy food at the festival were Pimmies, Waterfields, Blackburns and Harveys along with the hog roast from Mannafoods, which sold out at every session.

Anne Biggs, speaking on behalf of the organisers put the success of the event down to a number of factors.

She said; “We’d like to think that the novel choice of venue, and the fact we “shopped local” for the beers and catering where we could, helped to give the museum and St Helens itself much needed publicity and the location of the museum is within walking distance of all forms of public transport.

“We had an excellent choice of music for all sessions, which added to the atmosphere, especially the ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ who the festival goers loved.”

CAMRA would like to thank all those attending, either as volunteer or customer.

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