redsturgeon wrote:I am hopefully going to the GBBF on the first day but apparently company tickets are harder to come by than previous years...I am down as the "foreign beer expert".
Foreign? Where do you live?
I went to the first few GBBF's in the late 1970's at Ally Pally. I lived right there so how could I not? That included the one in the big marquee after the fire.
After that it went walkabout and I got distracted, and so didn't go again until a few years ago, when my kids were old enough to drink (well, OK, they have been drinking since they were 13, but you know what I mean) when I took them to one at Earls Court and one at Olympia.
I have to say that they are just not the same, but then that may just be age-related, rose-tinted nostalgia. These days I prefer small local beer festivals, being an old fart and all.