Dave, real ale guru

 That’s it then, another festival over and time to start working on the next one. We have had some excellent feedback on the beers featured and I hope you all found plenty to enjoy. Yet again I did not manage to get out to the pubs anywhere near as many times as I would have liked, and so only managed to try about 15 of the beers, but they were all very good. My favourite one would probably have to be the Springhead Willy’s Wheat Beer, the best English wheat beer I have drunk in years. Close runner-up was the Zululand Zulu Blonde which was even better than I remember from when we last featured this beer.
Other beers that definitely warrant a mention are Caledonian Coffee Porter, Everards Gallantry, John Martin’s Pale Ale, Nogne O Bitter and Wychwood King Goblin.

It seems like a lot of you out there are doing your bit for the beer and pubs industry. This week has seen a lot more pubs ringing us up to say they need more beer, which is fantastic news and is making sure we are fully occupied.

It sounds like this festival has got off to a flying start. All the pubs received their initial quotas of beer the week before the festival started and then the second part of their stocks within the next few days. Despite these huge amounts of beer already at pubs we have already had quite a few pubs ringing up and ordering extra stocks and so there are 100’s of extra casks now heading out.
 

It seems like a long time since my last blog, which is probably because it is a long time since my last blog. The guys at JDW have been keeping us busy since the last festival and, what with Christmas and plenty of other cask beer activity, time has flown by.