Organising a p*** up in a brewery

The age old saying goes, “you couldn’t organise a p*** up in a brewery”, well don’t fear, because neither can a beer festival.

In a turn of events that no one saw coming, the Beer on the Wye festival, which is the Herefordshire Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) annual event now in its fifth year, ran completely dry of beer and food, a day early.

Extra provisions of 18 barrels were delivered as an emergency but the Sunday session had to be called off due to overwhelming demand.

Whilst this is was a major disappointment for the organisers and festival goers at the time, the amount of coverage across many sites and news stories will do the popularity of the festival the world of good.

You can guarantee next year that despite some jokes at its expense, it will be one of the better known beer festivals outside of its local community, and this is proof that out of adversity can come light!