O/T: Wigan Beer Festival - Thu to Sat (Robin Park Arena) : Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:06 pm  

The 22nd Wigan Beer Festival commences on Thursday, 19th March 2009 and will run for 3 consecutive days. Thursday 5:30pm-11pm (£2 admission) Friday 12pm-11pm (£1 admission before 6pm, £3 after 6pm) Saturday 11:30am-Midnight (£2 admission before 6pm, £2.50 after 6pm). The venue (Robin Park Sports Centre) is situated just over a mile from the town centre, next door to the JJB Stadium. For food, the German Sausage Man will be providing bratwurst and crepes. Of course pies, peas, black pudding and chip barms will be available at all times. There will be a wide selection of bitters, milds, stouts, porters, ciders and perrys plus continental ales and lagers. All beers, wines and ciders are paid for using a beer token system. Simply get your beer tokens when you arrive at the festival and buy more as and when you need them. For your entertainment, there is live music each evening and throughout the day on Saturday. Thursday, 19th March 2009 at 19:30 PHUNK - a popular local 4-piece funk band Thursday, 19th March 2009 at 21:00 HEY ZEUS - a local outfit specialising in indie rock Friday, 20th March 2009 at 19:30 and 21:30 BILLY & THE TEMPREMENTALS - a six-piece band of local stars. Saturday, 21st March 2009 at various intervals throughout the day GOOD CITIZENS - back by popular demand, Irish/Folk/Country music with Cajun roots Please note, Friday afternoon is a 'quiet session' where no entertainment will be provided Click Here for more on this. Think the "quiet session" before travelling to Salford sounds good. Incidentally there are "Free" (well voluntary donation) bus transfers from outside the Anvil on Hallgate (opposite where the Job Centre used to be by the Bus Station) and they come back as well. Details of Bus Transfers - http://www.wigancamra.org.uk/index.php? ... Itemid=949

The 22nd Wigan Beer Festival commences on Thursday, 19th March 2009 and will run for 3 consecutive days. Thursday 5:30pm-11pm (£2 admission) Friday 12pm-11pm (£1 admission before 6pm, £3 after 6pm) Saturday 11:30am-Midnight (£2 admission before 6pm, £2.50 after 6pm). The venue (Robin Park Sports Centre) is situated just over a mile from the town centre, next door to the JJB Stadium. For food, the German Sausage Man will be providing bratwurst and crepes. Of course pies, peas, black pudding and chip barms will be available at all times. There will be a wide selection of bitters, milds, stouts, porters, ciders and perrys plus continental ales and lagers. All beers, wines and ciders are paid for using a beer token system. Simply get your beer tokens when you arrive at the festival and buy more as and when you need them. For your entertainment, there is live music each evening and throughout the day on Saturday. Thursday, 19th March 2009 at 19:30 PHUNK - a popular local 4-piece funk band Thursday, 19th March 2009 at 21:00 HEY ZEUS - a local outfit specialising in indie rock Friday, 20th March 2009 at 19:30 and 21:30 BILLY & THE TEMPREMENTALS - a six-piece band of local stars. Saturday, 21st March 2009 at various intervals throughout the day GOOD CITIZENS - back by popular demand, Irish/Folk/Country music with Cajun roots Please note, Friday afternoon is a 'quiet session' where no entertainment will be provided Click Here for more on this. Think the "quiet session" before travelling to Salford sounds good. Incidentally there are "Free" (well voluntary donation) bus transfers from outside the Anvil on Hallgate (opposite where the Job Centre used to be by the Bus Station) and they come back as well. Details of Bus Transfers - http://www.wigancamra.org.uk/index.php? ... Itemid=949

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm  

I'll be going to this with Morning Glory I think, should be a reet 'un

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:35 pm  

why is there never anything like this when im back home?
went to the beer festival a few years back and cracking day was had by all
when did it stop being the beer and pie festival or am i thinking of something else?

[JTB]

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:44 pm  

Thursday night session is my favourite and shall be attended once again this year. I can't hardly wait:

Phoenix : Arizona (4.1%)
Pale and 'Dry as a Desert'.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:00 am  

Catalancs wrote:

why is there never anything like this when im back home?
went to the beer festival a few years back and cracking day was had by all
when did it stop being the beer and pie festival or am i thinking of something else?

If I remember correctly the Beer and Pie Festival was at the Beer Engine on Poolstock Lane

[JTB]

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:06 am  

Boiled-Yed wrote:

If I remember correctly the Beer and Pie Festival was at the Beer Engine on Poolstock Lane

Correct and more than once combined with a Laurel and Hardy type event.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:08 am  

JTB wrote:

Correct and more than once combined with a Laurel and Hardy type event.

sons of the desert

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:11 am  

OMG That's why I associate Fezzies (if thats a word!) with the Beer Engine. Could never figure it out until now, Sons of the Desert everywhere
In my defence I had usually had too much Wobbly Bob

[JTB]

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:14 am  

Boiled-Yed wrote:

too much Wobbly Bob

A mate of mine (not me, OHHHH NO....) once swamped himself after a night supping that at the Beer Engines fest. Literally too Wobbly to get out of bed and make it to the bog in the night. Disgraceful scenes...

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:45 am  

If my memory of that brew is correct, they would only serve it in half pint measures, hence the phrase " two halves of Wobbly Bob in that pint glass, pleaaasssshhhheeee", coined by my mate known forever since as Wobbly Bob