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Liverpool Beer Festival Programme LI VERPOO L BEER FES TIVAL LIVER POOL ORGA NI C BREWERY 2014 MAIN SPONSORS OF THE LIVERPOOL BEER FESTIVAL PR OGRAMME METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL CRYPT FEBRUARY 20TH - 22ND 2014 LIVER POOL Welcome to the RGA NI 2014 Liverpool & O BREWERY C Districts CAMRA Events for 2014 Beer Festival Liverpool Organic Brewery Tour We’ve all been spoiled for choice with beer festival. Nationally, the campaign beer festivals since we last hosted our to scrap the beer duty escalator was Saturday April 5th annual event in the Crypt in 2013 and won, resulting in the end of the Other tour dates to be confirmed check website it’s expected we’ll have even more escalator and a 1p cut saving drinkers demands on our pockets in the next £1 billion over five years. Thanks to all Waterloo Beer Festival no.7 twelve months. This puts increasing our members who signed the petition. pressure on the festival organizers to 2014 promises to be equally May 1st/2nd//3rd/4th deliver an event that satisfies everyone challenging with the continued fight Old Christ Church, Waterloo and maintains the high standards that against pub closures alongside our aim are expected of beer festivals to recruit new members. Recently the International Festival of Business organized by CAMRA members. Once membership elected a new Committee again, we’ve been ably assisted by with some new faces who we hope will June-July – Watch this space! Liverpool Organic Brewery. be as committed to cause as those who Mark Hensby and his colleagues have have stepped down. Please continue to St George’s Hall Beer Festival worked hard to obtain an interesting support the Branch by attending get- range of beers from various parts of togethers and other social events September 25th/26th/27th/28th the country that we confidently expect including our ever-popular coach trips. our experienced bar managers and Meanwhile stay safe and enjoy the Waterloo Beer Festival no.8 festival organizer will present in tip-top Festival. condition. We also have a good Cheers, Geoff November 20th/21st/22nd/23rd selection of local brews and some old Old Christ Church, Waterloo favourites. Looking away from the Festival, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our Committee, who’ve worked hard on local and national issues, particularly our campaign to save the pub and bringing new people Geoff Edwards to real ale. I’m also grateful to all those Branch Chair Further details www.liverpoolorganicbrewery.com members who volunteered to organize Liverpool and Districts and run yet another hugely successful CAMRA 2 3 LIVER POOL Liverpool Beer Festival Users Guide Your Glass invalidate your vouchers after also the members festival One is provided free for use. Please don't try and tear discount of £3 of beer RGA NI everyone attending the festival off individual vouchers. vouchers, plus the first 3 to O and should you so wish it is join in any session C Beer Pricing BREWERY yours to keep. If you want to will receive a free 2013 We are continuing with our Good Beer Guide. simplified beer pricing Beer of the Festival Mark Hensby CAMRA Liverpool scheme with the lower Managing Director Anyone attending the festival Beer Festival strength beers at £1.00 per can vote for Beer of the Sponsors half and the higher strength Festival. Please complete a ones at £1.50 per half. Ever since we established voting form, which are Regretably with the increases available from the Liverpool Organic Brewery in beer prices we have been membership stand, and place in September 2008, we have forced to change the cut off it in the ballot box provided. stuck to the same simple point between the two objective – to produce great bands. Following the Gluten Free Beer tasting beers using only the finest ingredients. introduction of the High There are bottles of Gluten Strength Beer Duty for which Our maxim of "Quality over Compromise " has Free Beer available from the there is no small brewery Cider Bar led us to expand our customer base throughout relief we have to charge £2 Merseyside and beyond, with pubs, hotels and per half for beers over 7.5%. Colour coding restaurants across the UK now proudly stocking To help you select your beers Cider Pricing our products.Over the years our product range take it home, please put it in from the very wide range Up to 7.0% £1.50 per half and on display we use a system has continued to expand thanks to our dedicated your pocket or in a bag, openly carrying glasses in Liverpool for 7.1% and above £2.00 per of colour coding on the brew team and some excellent brew recipes. city centre is illegal. half barrel ends. The past year alone has seen the birth of RoyAle Membership Desk Beer Vouchers I George , a celebration of the birth of young Prince Located by stage in the Orange Medium beers These come in sheets with a George of Cambridge, and our PALS ale , brewed Concert Room value of £10, towards closing I Yellow Light Ales Quality Here you will find in honour of the Liverpool PALS memorial fund. time smaller amounts will be over information on the activities I Compromise We’re very proud of our cask and bottle range available. All vouchers are only Red Dark beers of CAMRA both locally and valid for the session of issue, and there may be even more to come in the nationally. If you join here I Blue Mild, Stout or Porters near future. however, any unused vouchers today not only will you are fully refundable at the cash Our beer festivals also continue to flourish, with receive the usual member- I Green Fruit or Flavoured desk up to 30min after the more than 10,000 people attending our events in ships offers such as the £20 of session closing time. Please Wetherspoons vouchers but 2013. We’re very excited about our plans for the note we use marker pens to coming year, with a return to St George’s Hall scheduled for September as well as two Help Desk appearances at Waterloo in May – which takes to the right of the entrance may provide some Ask at the membership stand or at less busy times the protection. Please ensure you obtain a pass out when place over the bank holiday weekend for the very beer voucher sales area. going outside so you can get back in again. first time - and October.We have a few other Toilets surprises lined up throughout the year, so keep Smoking, including electronic cigarettes, is not Ladies at foot of stairs, Gents at top of stairs, permitted anywhere within the building your eyes peeled to our website temporary urinals outside concert room back door. If you wish to smoke you may do so outside the front The disabled toilet is at foot of stairway. Please leave www.liverpoolorganicbrewery.com door. In inclement weather the area beneath the stairs for disabled use only. Photos will be taken in all sessions by CAMRA Liverpool & Districts Photographer and may be used for publication 4 5 Please Observe our Code of Conduct Festival Food Liverpool and At Liverpool Beer Festival we L+L will be offering a varied Districts Branch of believe Real Ale deserves Real changing menu of hot food Food. So we bring you three and snacks, served from the Crypt kitchen servery hatch CAMRA consider outlets, L+L Catering , the beef. All pies are baked fresh located at the centre of the Liverpool Cheese Company every morning for each event themselves extremely beer hall. You can expect to to ensure a perfect product. Ltd and Peninsula Luxury Pies . find, among others, Hot pork lucky to have this They will be available at the rolls, award winning sausages, liverpool beer festival served L+L Catering @ Fly in the Loaf quality warm pies, delicious wonderful venue for both hot and cold for your Steeped in the culinary traditionally made Scouse and enjoyment. our ever expanding tradition of the former much quality vegetarian options. missed Liverpool legend Keep an eye out for the board Liverpool Cheese beer festival Everyman Bistro, Linda Jordan by the servery with it's daily Company Ltd and Lesley Lee of L+L Catering Choose a platter from a wide The Cathedral staff are very menu. So please try to make the festival you when necessary. Please note will once again be providing range of artisan cheeses, the helpful and work overtime in their Peninsula Luxury Pies as safe and enjoyable as possible, that any trouble could result in their legendary catering. perfect snack to accompany efforts to keep the crypt and toilet use the bins provided, leave the loss of licence, both for the Based at The Fly in the Loaf in Peninsula Luxury Pies have facilities as clean and tidy as your beer. tables as tidy as possible and personal licence holder and the Hardman Street their style of been baking hand raised pies possible. The security staff also report broken glasses and venue. This could result in us quality pub food with an and pasties for over 30 years The Liverpool Beer Festival is help and are there for your committed to the best in Real spillages immediately to one being unable to use the crypt emphasis on fresh local using only the finest benefit just in case there are any of our staff who will clean it up produce is fast becoming the ingredients. The Cornish Food and Real Ale. A message problems with over boisterous again.
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