Three day beer festival

FANS of real ale will be welcomed to the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port in October when it hosts a three day beer festival.

The festival, organised in conjunction with Titanic Brewery, will run from Friday 12th October to Sunday 14th October, and will showcase a range of real ales with canal and waterways connections from across the country.

Second festival

Oliver Briscoe, Marketing Manager at the Museum, explains:

"Our first beer festival last year was a great event and we're looking forwards to repeating it. We're busy putting together a list of great ales from the canal network, using brewers from canalside locations and classic canal towns."

For boaters attending the festival, moorings for the weekend are being made available.

The festival will be open on Friday 12th from 2pm to 11pm, Saturday 13th from 2pm to 11pm and on Sunday 14th from 2pm to 5pm.

Homecoming

An added bonus on Sunday 14th October will be the homecoming ceremony of the narrowboat Ilkeston which has been on display at the London Canal Museum since August.

Tickets are now on sale at the Museum at just £10—which gets visitors to the festival entry to the museum, a programme and enough tokens for four pints of real ale.