Great British Beer Festival Walk Around 2023

[@justinkirkhope8810]

Great chat with the Renegade guys, look forward to any future collaboration - might just have to order some of that Renegade Master!

[@paulshirley6383]

Great British Beer Festival Walk Around Craft Beer Reviews love louis shirley

[@Bareego]

Loved the guys from Renegade brewery, they seemed very passionate and knowledgeable about their beers, and you seem to like what they made

[@petersmith6213]

💯

[@agdewey]

I remember attending my second GBBF, way back in 2012. At the time, I was a big fan of Brains beers, and tried their Barry Island IPA. I noticed it was a collaboration with Simon Martin, but I had no idea who Simon Martin was. Fast forward a number of years, and I discover your KZbin channel by pure coincidence!! 🙂

[@eamondevlin1860]

Few years since I've been at a beer festival. Tend to go for the first session and drink 3rds. That way I can stick to my 4 pint limit yet still have 12 different beers.

[@_Garrison19]

This was fantastic! I am already planning for a trip to London for the 2024 Festival! Cheers!

[@andrewwoods4626]

Looks great! Have fun!

[@pauljones5066]

looks great!!

[@rickrobinson3171]

gr8t video.. wish i had could of been there.

[@smalley182]

A Renegade Brewing Impy Stout or Barleywine would be rad. They seem like good dudes also 👍

[@NigelFortune]

Great video Simon awesome coverage of the GBBF 2023 👍

[@frankcarter6427]

I strongly suspect the Coltrane refers to John rather than Robbie

[@chrischris1459]

Great channel...can you do a review of the tangle foot from Badger? I know you did one a long time ago but it would be good to see how it hds up against current competition. I noticed it's available in a black can mowing supermarket.

[@AndrewJohnClive]

Lowestoft Brewers!! Green Jack Ales and Stouts… Amazing.

[@jamiemcdougall8365]

Excellent video. Renegade were great👍

[@tailor826]

Last went about 10 years ago, great to see it expanding and still going. I was pissed by the end, rightly so, buying chilli scratchings and pork pies. I hope the festival goes on for many more years. Love to go back, as when I visited I just went for the laugh and to have a few beers. As I've got older, to go back, I'd appreciate it a lot more.

[@psprog]

Just got back from 2 days here (Fri and Sat, all the beer runs out on Sat!). A lot quieter than previous years and fewer breweries - still the biggest and best we have tho

[@dmer91]

Awesome! 🍻

[@craigb2644]

No surprise that he was first in, he's like a kid in Disney World.

[@williew0nka]

Great to see Titanic representing wee Niron, fantastic beer ;-)

[@HardWoodCountry]

🔥🔥🔥🎉🎉🎉 Ah, yes! My favorite beer vlogs!!

[@pauldavies9014]

drinkers heaven ,will have to get there one day cheers si

[@johnp8131]

Goat and Tricycle? Was a brilliant Wadworth's pub in Bournemouth, alway from the touristy bit? Looks as though it's still there but no longer Wadworth.

[@rfraser5094]

Excellent vid 👍

[@bbop3557]

Attended a gig here in 2008 fantastic venue Simon👍

[@nicholasjohnson6075]

Going tomorrow, this has got me in the mood, will tell the renegade guys who sent me 😅

[@Cityzen1-p1n]

I've got to get over to England for this next year!!!!

[@Jannes-pj4cd]

It looks nice, I’d love to go in the future.

[@matthewbrown5677]

Went in 2007 30th .....we was younger then.....time to go back in 2024.......could l use my CAMRA 30th pint glass??.

[@leem7999]

Got to get to this next year 🍻🍻

[@johnp8131]

Wish I was there. First went when it was at the Alexandra Palace in the late seventies before the fire. Unfortunately, I can't afford both the GBBF and Peterborough Beer Festival in a couple of weeks time. Always nice to try a beer you can't usually get locally, which today where I am, means most darker ales? I see even St Austell didn't have any HSD, mainly the popular pale hoppy things?

[@agdewey]

They had Hicks on last year, as I made sure to have a pint of it! I'm getting burnt out from all the hoppy pale ales, so often go for darker beers these days.

[@JohnS1704]

CAMRA have had their day. In what world does GK Abbot become one of the best ales in Britain?

[@andrewsteer8860]

When GK sponsor the event!

[@markjohnathanappleton8642]

Well said

[@johnp8131]

Forty plus years ago it was pretty good, similar to Ruddles County before that was destroyed. Many of my local pubs had decent Abbot direct from the cask. What they do for these festivals today is "cheat" and make a one off batch or two from scratch. A few year ago GK did the same at the GBBF with their IPA, Instead of the usual hop pellets or extracts etc....normally used in mass brews, they used the proper ingredients and it was pretty decent, even tasting the way I remember it did back in the seventies from the St Edmunds brewery? Not the Biggleswade GK IPA though, that was still rubbish, even back then before it closed! BTW. Greene King XX Mild is still very good from the barrel. Very hard beer to find though and we're only a few miles to the west of Suffolk.

[@OscarOSullivan]

I have read Greene King used to be good believe Michael Jackson had abbot ale as one of the beers you must try

[@harrySinga-bg4gi]

Was there on Friday didn't get round to half the stands I wanted to see difficult to do it all in one day

[@kkrispy2009P]

Great beer festival vlog

[@jeremyelliott7586]

An Imperial Stout or something along those lines....Dunkel...etc...would be awesome!!!

[@TheSeansdad]

You don’t have to be miserable to be a member of camra , but it helps.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Trevor seems cheerful

[@marshlightning]

Keg beers at the Great British Beer Festival? We will have Double Diamond, Worthington E, Watney's Red Barrel next year.

[@brutalexe]

happy bunch, the CAMRA lot

[@chrischris1459]

Excuse typos...😅. Meant to read...holds up against current competition and it's available in supermarkets in new black cans

[@americasfavoritehoarder]

That table with all the beer bottles looks like my kitchen counter!

[@martincheevers5898]

Looks a bit like GABS. I'd love to go one day, although August is a shocking month to go to Europe.

[@captaincat1743]

Not overpriced ? That menu shown around 14:20 is advertising beers for £18 for a small bottle or £14 per can, so for a good day's drinking you will easily burn through two or three hundred quid. For the same money you could fly to Amsterdam, stay in a hotel and sample some of the finest Dutch and Belgian beers, get wasted and fly home. Just saying..

[@OscarOSullivan]

Dutch beer fine

[@stevelongdon2148]

Average price of a pint of cask ale was £5.05. Those beers were international imported beers.

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@stevelongdon2148 Not too bad

[@captaincat1743]

@@stevelongdon2148 What about the strong ones.. did they have any of that on tap _like the +7% beers, and if so what kind of prices were they ?

[@EliteC64]

I'm coming to the festival over the weekend and am mostly a lager drinker and not very knowledgeable about Ales but am interested to try some, what's a good recommendation for someone who's not a big fan of the citrus flavour? 🤔

[@realaleguide]

Go straight to the German stand if you are a lager fan, lots of lovely beer there

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@realaleguideLove single stout myself and mild ale

[@OscarOSullivan]

Try bitters like Timothy Taylor Boltmaker

[@atwarwithdust]

It's like an empty beer airport.

[@americasfavoritehoarder]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@Ken_oh545]

Hang on - there are no kids!

[@OscarOSullivan]

Beer port

[@Regi869]

👍👍

[@spinynorman8217]

This looks like heaven o me, shame l gave up alcohol to reduce blood pressure! One of the jewels of the UK ,our real ale!

[@john07973]

Looks like set up day rather than press day. Bigged up Renegade and that was it.

[@neilarmstrong5848]

You've got to brew an impy with Renegade! 👍🏻

[@martinkasper197]

In Germany we call them Bierdeckel (beer lid) or Bierfilz (beer felt)🤘😂 In the middle ages a felt was used to cover the beer glass to prevent from insects when drinking on the outside....

[@johnp8131]

You should give our festivals and real ales a try? Remembering British lager type beers are usually dreadful? My German mates are coming over in a couple of weeks for "beer crawls" of Norwich, London and the Peterborough Beer festival (the largest here under canvas here). I'll probably do Düsseldorf and maybe Franconia again next year, if I can get away from the mother-in-law in Moers.

[@OscarOSullivan]

I think they should be used here in Ireland in Summer because fruit flies are attracted to my pint of mild so I use another beer mat.

[@martinkasper197]

@@OscarOSullivan A Bierdeckel is the German word for a beer mat (made of cardboard). I just used the direct translation of the 2 words... So they are same used as in Ireland...By the way Guinness Draught is a great beer... Have you ever tried Köstritzer Schwarzbier (black beer)?

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@martinkasper197 I haven’t tried Köstritzer Schwarzbier but have had H and H of Bow street Dublin’s Schwarzbier which I quite liked. My favourite stouts come from small independent Irish breweries and on draught O’ Hara’s single stout,White hag’s black pig stout, Porterhouse’s single stouts:Plain porter, Oyster stout, Wrasslers/XXXX stout and the Easter special Chocolate truffle stout.

[@andrewsteer8860]

Hope you remembered to try the 2nd best ale in the country…Greene King Abbot Ale

[@richardsmith2317]

🙄

[@SharronHodgson]

I only put Abbot in my slow cooker

[@johnp8131]

@@SharronHodgson Your right, it's not the beer it was forty years ago?

[@matthewbrown5677]

Ooookay

[@SharronHodgson]

Fantastic idea that

[@Jayjayuk12345]

I was here on Tuesday

[@AuthorJgDow]

Try Cracking Ibiza for a crafty good time! 💥🍻🍺

[@richardjames7905]

Great British Beer Stagger.

[@neilwhite6305]

Bought some renegade today

[@simonharding3109]

Looks like Swansea market 🥺

[@MichaelWilde.pushbikegraddad]

Is there a part two , the people in this one , (apart from the end), seemed a bit reluctant to engage, probably because they were busy setting up, did you film later when the festival was in full swing.

[@realaleguide]

Yes got a bit more footage to come, will post in a couple of days time

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@realaleguideDid you hear about Greene King Abbot ale coming second a real debacle anything but Greene King

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@realaleguideI would love to try the Harvey’s beers

[@MartinvonBargen]

1:11 Proof that the Scouse accent was built upon a lot of Welsh pronunciation 🤘🤘

[@Robocrap]

Coasters?

[@HerbertDuckshort]

Don’t forget. Breakfast is the most important beer of the day….

[@nigelwatson2750]

The bald bloke with glasses seemed a bit official. Is an inability to smile a requirement to join CAMRA? Renegade in contrast were top lads

[@nige3801]

Have you seen the 'Real Ale Twats' in the Viz comic

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

@@nige3801I haven't caught that one bit will have a look now, cheers. Some people have to get over serious regardless what they are supposedly enjoying and ruin it for those who know how to. I just get the woodfordes homebrew kits of their own ales, turn out very authentic and saves having to deal with any twats as well as being great value.

[@daviephi]

Lived in Newbury for 20 years and drank a lot of west Berkshire beers..loved good old boy. Heard it had stopped so very pleased it looks like the phoenix brewery is in good hands in yattendon. Would like to see a funky bitter just tired of so many IPAs and Pale Ales.. let's push the bitter back into focus so maybe a good old boy mark 2 !!

[@OscarOSullivan]

Agreed more single stout and mild ale

[@carletouk]

I think vocation life of death is a excellent on the perfect draft .

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Just a question , do you have plans to visit one of the Octoberfest in germany . as that is a great celebration of beer and food pairing. I i may recomend something that is closer to home , a vissit to belgium and experiencing some great local beers and foods. As the belgians have a great beerbraised meats. that are simple to die for .

[@stuartlong6217]

You walked past me on Tuesday. I nodded and you said hello which was nice. After many years attending GBBF I think I might give it a miss from now on. I like the keg and foreign beer bars, but the regional real ale bars done by alphabet have gone down from seven or eight to five. It is supposed to be a real ale festival. The number of food stands must have halved. I'm sure we all have our favourites from just recently but now the crusty pie co has three, all selling the same stuff, and the greek stand has two, leaving about another five. I know there is(still)building work and space is reduced, but a lot of the space where there used to be beer and food stalls is now just wasted. I'm sure they will say that when the work is complete it will go back to being a proper real ale festival again, but it won't. It never does. This is Britain.

[@davidrobbins7416]

How about a spaten pilsner

[@ZX-wy1tw]

Half your luck mate. Enjoyable chat with the Renegade guys. They were talking up their stout game, why not brew a russian imperial. Cheers

[@William-Anderson]

you should take a microphone so we can hear the other people better

[@martinkasper197]

These Polo Shirts are not that expensive for a festival sale... 15 GBP is good.'

[@jamesedgewood4643]

Fursty and first-in.

[@jjcarley]

Now, just imagine if you featured some of these new beers on the channel instead of reviewing Aldi's version of Peroni...

[@jasonpratt927]

How about a colab weissbier 🤔😋

[@SharronHodgson]

Pity you didn’t try your first beer from a smaller micro, let’s face it Theakston beers are nothing special,last time I had one of there beers was when England won World Cup .you were only 50 mtrs away from Fyne there Single hop Citra Jarl is fab Simon . John

[@OscarOSullivan]

To be fair they are the O’ Hara’s of English beer

[@darrelw6246]

Spoiled for choice there 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@Ken_oh545]

Well you confused that fellow by talking about Martin Brundle 😂 I must say it is not the most obvious reference

[@Ken_oh545]

My 1st thought when I saw Coltrane was John Coltrane not Robbie, I guess am not so massively into the UK celeb thing as you!

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

@@Ken_oh545 I like Robbie but that was my first thought too.

[@memee8543]

Hazy Hoppy Pale Ale

[@stephanbreme3317]

Please go back to the festival and try the Riegel beer. Better stuff you can't find, more quality is not possible.

[@billybatts294]

well off

[@martinkasper197]

Unfortunately Simon ignored the pretty brunette girl left to the Renegades guys.,.😂😂

[@tc2425]

Coasters

[@OscarOSullivan]

Beer mats

[@gt3911]

That wasn't the right context for the polishing a turd phrase - thankfully they didn't seem to take it the wrong way! Nice chats, looks like a good time

[@Bakey180s]

They're beer mats mate..lol

[@NickL5980]

Everyone loves simon’s sausage 😂😂

[@davehammill5783]

I take it camra allow keg now this is why i left many years ago

[@johnp8131]

"Key Keg", amongst other names. Still a member myself but you're right, it's still a cop out!

[@OscarOSullivan]

Cask is brilliant done right but inconsistent quality doesn’t help

[@Tom_-]

It's kind of a shame it's so dominated by big businesses, though I do love Osset beers. Also, hand pumps, hmmm, I prefer gravity fed beer at festivals to be honest.

[@jolowres887]

Brew a smoked lager, German style

[@billybatts294]

the prices per pint are frightening only the very off will be able to go out for a pint all part of the plan to keep the working class under control

[@billybatts294]

@@noggintube i live in Leeds and used to love a night out but 7 quid for a pint has become the norm even for a pint of awful carling

[@Sozbear]

@@billybatts294 Under £5 in Tapped and Bankers Cat. Don't mislead.

[@OscarOSullivan]

A maximum price of a pint is needed in the ROI and UK

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

Appropriately for this convo Simon started off with Theakston. Being charged best part of £4 up in North Yorkshire (where I believe the brewery is situated) finally convinced me that this is not an average working class person's pastime. Forget how many years ago that was but just got a real ale place opened in my neighbourhood and voila £7 a pint. Instant reaction was a swear word. I brew my own and it costs nowhere near that.

[@enbi2499]

where are the people?

[@duckman5642]

Its a beer festival? So why do they try to rip off drinkers with high prices, 20 years ago it was sold cheap to you and it was a great day out.

[@SagerWine]

13:22 no context needed

[@chesterlee6508]

Nearly all british beers are brewed with maris otter grain which leaves a nasty taste on the beer.

[@stevelongdon2148]

Maris Otter is a wonderful grain which is why it is used so much. Maybe it’s not just not to your taste.

[@jimclark1374]

What! No Asian beers??

[@OscarOSullivan]

What do you expect I doubt they would take Irish beers

[@groomys67]

I've never seen such unfriendly people.

[@emospider-man6498]

Renegade, Pilsner. hah, basic as you like.

[@jaserogers997]

I love that Miles dude. He looks like he's been on it for hours.

[@Mr.CreamCheese69]

there's a few American breweries here that are right near my house!! Nod Hill and Newsylum are right near me, and they are some of the best beer in the state of CT (besides Kent falls)

[@147breaks]

All save your money and fly to Germany,over 1500 beer festivals to choose from ,free entry to all and beers to die for 😂

[@OscarOSullivan]

Boring Bavarian Beer

[@147breaks]

@@OscarOSullivan the best ,even the ones away from Bavaria

[@Mr.CreamCheese69]

this looks like home to me!!