Post festival notes

The pub is quiet now, very quiet, but it was a great weekend. We definitely wasn't as busy as last February, but a very good festival all the same.

The fastest selling ales included, predictably, Castle Rock Harvest Pale as well as RCH Pitchfork, Loose Cannon's Abingdon Bridge and, a little more surprisingly Compass Baltic Night Stout, which won a number of fans. I will be determining the beer of the festival when I have had chance to go through the tasting forms.

My choice this time would be Compass King's Shipment IPA, which was literally bursting with flavour, but at 6.0% was not such a fast mover - conventional wisdom, of course, would tell you that the fastest selling ales at beer festivals are strong ones, but not here, it's quite the reverse. Maybe that's big CAMRA festivals. But then conventional wisdom would tell you to host a beer festival on the August bank holiday and not the third weekend of February, so so much for conventional wisdom.

Thanks to all who came to the festival from far and wide and made it such an enjoyable event. Cheers!