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THE SOCIETY OF INDEPENDENT BREWERS (SIBA)

in association with

The Palace Hotel & CAMRA (Manchester)

October 28th to 30th 2010

The Great Northern Beer Festival is a celebration of the modern revolution in British brewing  as a result of which there are now more breweries than in most of our lifetimes.

This festival is unusual in several ways. It is run by the brewers themselves — SIBA (The Society of Independent Brewers) which represents most British breweries, big and small.  There are more than a hundred SIBA breweries in The North region.

The festival begins on Thursday with SIBA North’s annual beer competition.

300 casks have been entered, and 120 bottled beers.

When the blind-tasting judging is complete the doors will be opened to the public at 4pm on the Thursday (Oct 28th.) Winners in 8 cask beer and 5 bottled beer categories will be announced soon after.

The festival will be open 4 – 1030 Thurs; 12 – 1030 Fri & Sat.

The venue is The Grand Room in the iconic city centre Palace Hotel, where an entire temporary beer cellar is to be built from scratch. It is a Northern beer festival and so the draught beers will be served “in the Northern manner,” via hand pumps with sparklers, to produce a creamy head. This alone makes this beer exhibition unique.

The festival is only possible because of a close partnership between SIBA North, The Palace Hotel and the organisers of CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival also held in Manchester.