Herne tavern this weekend - Beer festival

[Mrs Y]

Just walked past the Herne Tavern and saw a ginormous inflatable marquee, what's that? i asked:

'A real ale festival with over 20 beers from around the country' they answered...

I didn't know there were 20 people that still drunk bitter anymore?!... but it seems like they are set for a busy weekend

Just wondered if anybody else knew about it and how many people will be heading down there?!

See you all there

Mrs Y

[Jah Lush]

Beer festival!!! Oh goody...Thanks Mrs Y.

[Sam]

I'm shining my tankard as we speak (not intended to be a euphemism...). Looking forward to it.

[Knomester]

We're planning on going on Saturday afternoon / evening! The Herne is our local and serves really good bitter anyway so looking forward to sampling a few more...

20 guest ales you say....?? It could be messy :)-D:)-D

[Sue]

Nyge and I will definitely be going, but then we're folkies, got to live up to the stereotype, innit :)-D

[taper]

The Herne on a sunday lunch is a vision from hell. And the service truly woeful (the place falls apart). They do very good beer though.

[Cassius]

The Beer Festival is only today and tomorrow so Sunday lunch can be avoided.

[Jah Lush]

I was a bit worried about the Sunday lunch crowd so thanks for the info Cassius. Might try and get down there tomorrow at point.

[Sue]

Sounds like a good way to spend some of Friday night, provided I don't sample all twenty of the beers on offer as I have to get up early tomorrow :))

:)-D

[Sue]

Well we went down there last night about quarter to ten - to find the beer tent all closed up :'(

Told because the garden closed at eleven, the beer tent had closed at nine !?!??!?!

Not happy. Poster outside Palmerston just said dates, nothing about closing at nine ...

Went to CPT to drown sorrows in a pint of Broadside ... Broadside was off ...

Not a great Friday night :'(

But hey, Dulwich Ukelele Orchestra were great at the Plough tonight :)-D

[lozzyloz]

Sue, The Herne are having problems with a resident complaining about noise from the garden.

[Sue]

Well, I have every sympathy with somebody being unhappy about the noise, but there's two points.

First, the poster in the Palmerston window should have stated the 9pm closing time, then we would have got to the Herne earlier. The closing time was only on the leaflets - which we hadn't seen.

Second, we were told we could get beer at the bar and bring it into the garden - so, I'm not too sure what the difference is between that and buying it from a tent in the garden in terms of noise?