Generous donations at Stratford Beer Festival raise £1,500 for Shakespeare Hospice
IT was time to raise a glass at the 16th Stratford Beer and Cider Festival which was held at Stratford Racecourse last weekend.
It was thirsty work sampling all the drinks on offer as there were 58 beers and 26 ciders to tempt punters over the two days.
Festival organiser Jason Norledge said: “There was a really good selection of beers which were very popular and 15 per cent sold out, as did many of the ciders.
“My particular favourite was Beartown Crème Bearlee, which is a dark sweet beer.”
Beer of the festival was Nuttycombe Snow Leopard and cider of the festival was Lilley’s Bee Sting.
Dave Page, treasurer of Shakespeare CAMRA added: “We had fabulous live music from The Lockdown Layabouts who played at last year’s festival.”
He added: “The Shakespeare Hospice had a stall there and raised £1,500 and we hope to make a donation of £400.”