Dominoes, Table Skittles and Gluten Free Beer at the Luton Beer & Cider Festival.
On Friday 17th February we headed to the 29th Luton Beer & Cider Festival at the High Town Sports & Arts Centre in Luton.
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| The souvenir glass from the Beer Fest and a hand of my Dominoes |
Ahead of the event I’d been informed by the Beds & Mid Herts Coeliac Group that there would be four Gluten Free Beers on offer (in amongst the many beers, ciders and perries)! I'd also spoken to one of the organisers, who is a Coeliac, and found out the beers would be available on the foreign beers stand.
The four GF beers available were from Green's and were the Bottle Conditioned Re-fermented Blonde, Brown and Dark Ales & Greens Discovery. I chose a bottle of the Blonde Beer and would definitely buy it again. It was excellent that the Beer Festival had chosen to include Gluten Free beers on the roster too. I'm a big fan of Cider and Perry, but it's nice to go to a Beer Fest and actually have the choice to buy a Beer if I want to.
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| The four Gluten Free Beers available. There were plenty of posters around the venue advertising the beers, along with a factsheet explaining what Coeliac Disease is. |
In amongst the drinking me and Emily played some Dominoes in a best-of-3, 5 & 7 series to decide the Luton Drink Club Dominoes Champion.
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| A Dominoes game in 'action' |
The main hall at the Beer Fest housed a vast array of ales and was where the four Gluten Free beers were being sold.
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| Me with a Gluten Free Ale and another 'third' of strong Cider! |
The hall also housed the CAMRA stand where they had two Pub Games available to play – Shove Ha’penny and Table Skittles!
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| The Table Skittles at the CAMRA stand |
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| The Shove Ha'penny Board |
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| Me lining up a swing on the Table Skittles |
An excellent evening with lots of different drinks to try. Roll on the 30th Luton Beer & Cider Festival!
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Some tense domino's matches between me & JohnJohn. A good evening all round :)
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