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Festival on tap for beer lovers
Pub landlords are rolling out the barrels ready for the seventh annual Welland Valley Beer Festival which starts tomorrow.
The three-day event is the area's largest real ale festival with more than 120 types of real ales, ciders and bottled beers from around the world on offer.
Organisers have even put on free transport between the pubs in vintage buses and this year there will be a continental taste with a bottled beer from Belarus, which has been imported by a couple from Peterborough.
Last year visitors came from as far away as Wales and Lancashire to sample the beers.
Alan Carr, landlord of the Talbot in Gretton, said: "It is a bit hectic getting the last-minute preparations done, but I think we have it under control.
"There were thousands of people who came last year and we are hoping to do better than that this year, which means an awful lot of beer sales.
"We are focusing on the real ales but I think they will be selling lagers at the Castle Inn because their landlord is Australian."
The beers will come from around the country, but there are a few tipples brewed in the county such as the ones from the Potbelly brewery and Great Oakley brewery.
Members of Camra, the Campaign for Real Ale, will be at the festival trying many of the drinks on offer and giving them a score.
Pubs taking part are the Talbot Inn, Gretton, the Spread Eagle and Royal George, Cottingham, the Red Lion, Middleton; the Castle Inn, Caldecott, the George and Dragon, Seaton, the White Swan, Harringworth, and the Marquess of Exeter, Lyddington.
The programme is now on sale for 1.50 from all the pubs taking part.
Drinkers will be able to see a map of the pub route, get the bus timetable and a schedule of the live events at each venue in the official event programme.
Further information is available by calling 01536 771609 or 07790 197220.
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