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Local Breweries star at Great British Beer Festival Winter

Breweries from across East Anglia will be taking centre stage at the Great British Beer Festival Winter 2018, taking place from the 20th-24th February in Norwich.

The local breweries will showcase a range of their finest beers to festival attendees and will include:

  • Lacons Brewery – a multi-award winning brewery based in Great Yarmouth that can trace its history back to 1760. Their flagship beer “Encore” is considered one of Roger Protz’s ‘ten of the best’ according to the latest edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide.

  • Norfolk Brewhouse and H Banham Ltd – these two brewers will jointly run the Maris Otter Bar, giving visitors the chance to learn more about what makes Norfolk malt, its growers, maltsters and brewers so very special.

  • Moonshine Brewery – a Cambridge-based brewery whose Chocolate Orange Stout has been a three-times finalist in the “Speciality Beers Category” at the Great British Beer Festival. Their beers are hand-brewed and characterised by their clean, fresh taste. They will be showcasing a few of their special, one-off beers at the upcoming festival.

Other special beers of note at the festival include will include keg beers La Pirata ‘Lupulus’ (3%, Spain), Prairie Artisan ‘Birthday Bomb!’ (13% double imperial stout, USA), Warpigs ‘Thirstin’ More’ (7%, Denmark), and bottled beers, such as Nonge ‘Kriek of Telemark’ and ‘Dark and Stormy’ (Norway) and La Pirata ‘Panoptic’ (8.5%, Spain).

Martin Ward, the Great British Beer Festival Winter organiser says: “I am delighted that we will be able to display such excellent breweries at the Great British Beer Festival Winter. East Anglia is home to some of the finest breweries and beers in the country, and it is wonderful that we can shine a spotlight on these fantastic brewers from the area.”

Local brewers will also be sponsoring a Beer & Food (Fine Dining Experience), as part of the launch of the Great British Beer Festival Winter. CAMRA, in association with the 4-star Maids Head Hotel in Norwich, will be holding a Beer & Food Dining Experience on Sunday 18th February, at 7.30pm. Guests will be treated to a three-course dinner, matched with seven local beers. The confirmed sponsoring breweries are: Ampersand Brewery, Allday Brewing, Elmtree, Boudicca, Humpty Dumpty, Beeston and Panther.

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