Friday 21st September 2012 - GCR Beer Festival, Loughborough

The (now annual it seems) trip to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough with RG for their annual beer festival.  This year they were operating from a second site near Leicester but time prevented us from partaking of that part of the festival.

This time I wanted to sampled lower strength beers (with a colour theme as it turns out, meaning I went for the following :

• Welbeck Red Feather (3.9%)
• Milestone Will Scarlett (3.8%)
• B&T Golden Fox (4.1%)
• Leather Britches Goldings (3.8%)
• Tydd Steam Golden Kiwi (4.1%)
• Bartrams Green Man (4%)
• White Horse Wayland Smithy (4.4%) - described as "Red like the fire at it's heart...")

We then decided to move on and I'd previously noted that the Blue Monkey Brewery had recently oipened their latest Organ Grinder pub in the town and it was only a few minutes walk from the festival.  There I went for their Guerrilla Stout and then (returning to the above theme) 99 Reb Babboons.

RG mentioned that he wanted to visit The Three Nuns and has it happens we soon found it.  This is an Everards pub and we both went for their Beacon.

Back to Tamworth and a meal at an Indian.