# Great British Beer Festival mini-fest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346 "2003-07-14T11:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/21 "2003-07-15T14:49:41Z")
so wednesday yes? think i’ll be taking thursday off too then 🙂 i don’t mind if we do the phone thing or the bus thing. If we are doing the phone thing though i’ll need to give peeps my new mobile number. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/22 "2003-07-15T15:44:33Z")
Wednesday is the day. I have to be back in Brum for a group meeting at 1pm Thursday, so I’ll try not to get too tipsy. 😉 It might be worth giving people your new mobile number anyway - just in case we get lost/seperated… ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/23 "2003-07-24T19:38:31Z")
bumpity bumpity bump… common yer boring bassturds! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/24 "2003-07-25T09:31:50Z")
i think too many people don’t want to go a drinkin’ on a school day… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/25 "2003-07-25T12:02:19Z")
There must be more Real Ale fans around, let’s try to catch some vanity searchers - **Sir Doris** and **Crusoe** come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/26 "2003-07-25T13:18:41Z")
I’d love to go there, but I’ll be on the wrong side of the North Sea during the festival. Have a pint for me, please. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/27 "2003-07-26T23:04:49Z")
Ooh, a big group of my friends is going there in the evening of that day, I could join you lot in the afternoon and then move on to them in the evening. Or I could take some of you over to join with them if you don’t mind the thought of hanging out with 30 or 40 drunk lesbians 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/28 "2003-07-27T01:04:06Z")
I’m afraid I can’t make it - am working at a client that week and have no holiday left to take this year. I’ll be thinking of the beers, though. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/29 "2003-07-27T01:14:52Z")
Not sure if this has to do with the OP, but my fave Brit beers are: Boddingtons Old Peculiar Whitbread Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/30 "2003-08-01T10:15:42Z")
Time to drag this thread back to top. **SciFiSam** , if you do want to find us in the afternoon, send me an email and I’ll send you my mobile number. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/31 "2003-08-01T12:18:23Z")
I just (hopefully) secured a new contract… Wednesday 8pm… so in theory, although I _could_ come down for the beer fest, I’d have to leave early and I don’t think it’s gonna look good if I meet a new client three sheets to the wind… ☹ Boo! ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/32 "2003-08-02T06:24:21Z")
Hope you can make it **Tir** , how about bringing the client to the fest? Get him/her ratted, then slip a couple extra zeros onto the end of the quote price on the contract. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/33 "2003-08-02T11:42:35Z")
Great British Beer. For some reason that is an oxymoron to me. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/34 "2003-08-04T10:41:25Z")
Email sent, **kferr**. I shall be there in the afternoon with a non-Doper friend (and then the others in the evening). ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/35 "2003-08-04T10:45:47Z")
I’ll also definitely be there - possibly with a non-Doper friend in tow too. **Kferr** an email is winging your way… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/36 "2003-08-04T10:48:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racer72 \* > \*\*Great British Beer. For some reason that is an oxymoron to me. \*\* Now _that_ is ignorance that needs fighting ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/37 "2003-08-04T11:08:32Z")
Both emails responded to. And I agree, racer72 needs several pints of re-education! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/38 "2003-08-05T02:45:43Z")
I didn’t previously know if I’d be able to get to this, but it looks like I can. Can someone confirm the latest plans for us all to get together? And can I just turn up and buy a ticket on the day? **Kferr** it might be good to swap cell phone numbers if you wanna email me privately. Ditto for anyone else who’s gonna show up. **Tir** - you’d better be coming along to this as it’s my only chance to have some drinking time with you before I leave for 4 weeks in Oz and miss the next Londope! Clients be damned… you can always get another client, but you don’t always get a chance to enjoy some decent beer with the man who introduced you to kaboom paper, now do you? ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/39 "2003-08-05T11:26:25Z")
Let’s drag this thread to the top one more time. **ianzin** , I’ve just e-mailed you my number, I’ll be there from around noon until I fall over. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346/40 "2003-08-05T11:31:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kferr \* > \*\*Let’s drag this thread to the top one more time. **ianzin** , I’ve just e-mailed you my number, I’ll be there from around noon until I fall over. \*\* I will be attending with a mate from about noon too and will also be staying until i fall over. (About 15mins probably) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-british-beer-festival-mini-fest/188346.md?page=3)