Best in glass!
 

One of Yorkshire’s most successful companies, Festival Glass, has once again been confirmed
as the exclusive supplier of beer glasses for the 2009 Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) which will be held at Earl’s Court, London from 4^th August.

In addition to supplying this year’s event for the 5th year running Festival Glass will also be sponsoring the glass for this year’s event. Every glass will feature the beer festival logo and the embossed camra logo and, for the first time ever, the Festival Glass logo. We are delighted to continue our longstanding association with CAMRA by sponsoring THIS YEARS FESTIVAL GLASSWARE    

Festival Glass specialises in high quality glass printing. It has developed advanced processes which ensure that festival and corporate logos can be printed directly on to each glass, producing a durable and attractive enamel finish.

The Halifax-based company has already supplied this year’s Scottish Beer Festival and the Welsh Beer Festival and the GBBF is the biggest of them all. Festival Glass will supply 40,000 souvenir beer glasses to Earl’s Court for the 5-day festival.

Later in the summer, Festival Glass is also supplying Peterborough Beer Festival, the UK’s largest regional beer festival. It will be the fourth consecutive year of supplying glasses for
the festival.

1,000 glasses an hour

Graham Cheesbrough, Managing Director of Festival Glass said “We are delighted to continue our longstanding association with the UK’s biggest beer festival. We are continually investing in the most advanced technology to ensure that we retain our status as the leading supplier in
the industry.”

Festival Glass is supplying three sizes of souvenir glasses complete with the GBBF logo. These are:

·      23 oz Conical Glass with a printed line @ One Pint, Half Pint and 3rd Pint

·      12 oz Conical Glass with a printed line @ Half Pint and a 3rd of a Pint

·      Stemmed Beer Glass with a line @ 3rd Pint.

There will be over 750 types of beer for sale during the festival including over 450 British ales, plus international beers and a huge range of real ciders and perries.

“It will take us 1 week to print the GBBF glasses.” says Graham. “At full capacity we can print up to 1,000 glasses an hour. We use an automated screen printing technique and then the glasses go into a furnace which slowly heats them to 600 ºC. This fuses the enamel to the glass and achieves a perfect, durable finish.”

Festival Glass has built up an excellent reputation for supplying high quality decorated glass
to a wide range of independent breweries, pubs, businesses and high profile organisations like CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale). It provides a full service from artwork design to delivery and it offers both promotional and commemorative glasses. Etch-effect printing is just one of the techniques that Festival Glass has perfected over the years.

“We are always looking for our next challenge,” says Graham Cheesbrough “and after visiting our website our clients often come up with new ideas that can promote their name to their target market. Glass will always be a high quality way of promoting a brand or an organisation.”