Argyll micro-brewery Fyne Ales is holding a fantastic beer, food and music festival over the Jubilee bank holiday weekend.

Billed as FyneFest 2012, the four day event is taking place for the third year on Friday 1^st to Monday 4^th of June. The festival will be held in the brewery’s Cairndow grounds located within the stunning backdrop of Glen Fyne. The festival is seeking to build on the success of previous years with a fantastic mix of beer, food and music.

As well as having a large range of Fyne Ales’ own beers on over the weekend our brewing team have been working hard to source the finest beers from the best craft breweries in the UK. There are going to be over 100 beers on throughout the weekend from 25 different breweries, including beers from highly rated new brewery Magic Rock and the first casks north of the border from Freeminer.

Local food producers Loch Fyne Oysters and Winston Churchill Wild Venison will be providing fresh local produce such as pints of prawns and venison burgers. New additions to the food line up include; Taste of Galloway Hog Roast, Churrio and hot chocolate dip, Cairndow cakes, Home Ground Coffee and Eden Deli who will be selling their famous Stovies.

In addition to the music we will be holding a comedy night on the Friday night for the first time. This year there will be double the amount of bands with music being organized by Craig McIntyre of The Cottage Music Studio, with everything from Traditional Scottish through Big Band Sounds to Folk, Blues and Rock playing over the weekend.  The Camans, The Mandelas and Dr. Hip and the Blues Operation will all be returning after their huge success last year with a few new additions to the programme adding to the variety over the weekend.

Tickets for the event are available at £20 for the full weekend including the Friday comedy evening. Sunday tickets are available at £10 with comedy night tickets available at £5. Camping tickets are priced at £20 per pitch for the weekend.

Tickets can be booked by phone on 01499 600120, e-mail: elaine@fyneales.com or online at www.fynefest.com

Venue: Brewers’ Hall, Aldermanbury Square, London, EC2V 7HR

Contact: Dan Cannas

Email: dan.cannas@ibd.org.uk

We present a Festival of British Beer & Baking. The Festival will take place in the magnificent Hall of the Worshipful Company of Brewers’. Visitors will have the opportunity to sample a wide range of beers and foods, meet the producers and enjoy the company of fellow beer enthusiasts.

There will be three 90 minute visitor sessions at the following times:

- 11:30 to 13:00

- 14:00 to 15:30

- 16:30 to 18:00

Costs: £20 per person per session.

Confirmed Brewers:

Meantime Brewery www.meantimebrewing.com

Hopback Brewery www.hopback.co.uk

Everards Brewery www.everards.co.uk

Shepherd Neame Brewery www.shepherdneame.co.uk

Miller Brands UK www.millerbrands.co.uk

Fullers Brewery www.fullers.co.uk

More to be announced!

JUDGING BY INVITATION ONLY

Scotland Region (Cask & Bottle) Beer Competition 2012

to be held on

27th June 2012

at

Corn Exchange

Edinburgh

All winners and entrants will appear at the Scottish Real Ales Festival 2012

http://www.sraf.org.uk/

The SIBA Scotland Region Beer Competition (Cask & Bottle) judging event will determine the beers that will go through to the SIBA National Beer Competition 2013.

Regional winners will vie for the GOLD title in fifteen categories:

The results will be announced and awards presented on 27th June at around 5pm.  The Trade session will open at 5pm

Results can be found here  www.siba.co.uk/events

http://www.ibd.org.uk/events/list-events/1814/ibd-golf-society-day-copt-heath-golf-club-solihull-england/

BFBi Technical Trade Talks Day

Bottling for the Independent Craft Brewer

A free event to SIBA Members

University of Nottingham, Innovation Centre, Loughborough Campus

Thursday, 28th June 2012

An opportunity for SIBA Brewers to view the University of Nottingham Innovation Centre, including the SAB pilot brewery and University of Nottingham brewery on site. You will also meet with a range of technical experts from the BFBi Membership in order to benefit your business.

Briefings will cover issues including;

Cask Vs Bottling Conditioning and CIP Issues – Kevin Mitchell

Bottling Filtration – Parker Domnick Hunter

Integrated Process & Packaging Technology for Craft Brewers – Phil Quinn, Moravek International

The Filler Box Concept – Krones UK

Contract Bottling Opportunities – Mark Hammond, Holdens Bottling

Following the briefings there will be tours of the Innovation Centre, covering the brew houses on site.

The event is free of charge to SIBA Brewers and will include refreshments and lunch.

Space is limited and reservation will be made on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, maximum of 2 attendees per brewery.

BFBi Members who have already confirmed their attendance include;

Anton Paar

Bellingham + Stanley

Carbonation Techniques

Label Apeel

Moravek

M&A Packaging

Murphy & Son

NCH Europe

To book your place or to receive further details on the day please contact charlotte@bfbi.org.uk

Click Here to see the agenda