Power drinking: Two days at London’s Great British Beer Festival (#GBBF 2014)

Great British Beer Festival 2014

Since 2008, I have been visiting the Great British Beer Festival in London, a great event organized by the Campaign for Real Ale which was founded in 1971 and has been promoting promoting real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub ever since. According to Wikipedia, it is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK.

In this blog entry, I mainly collected my Twitter and Facebook posts (some in German). You can also check out previous reports: 2008’s „Ein halber Tag in London“ (in German) and 2009’s „Drinking for a Good Cause“.

As a first taster, I put together a short video with some festival scenes:


My notes in chronological order, starting Wednesday morning:

Pre-beerfest BBQ bun. #gbbf (at @BodeansBbq in Soho, London w/ 2 others) https://t.co/IwGgRhV9sC pic.twitter.com/0ILLLUpqIL

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) August 13, 2014

Too bad! Two of my favourite beer names (one of them a jury winner) are sold out: "Headless" & "Directionless". http://t.co/lLRIKtgTDL #gbbf

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) August 13, 2014

Fein beim #GBBF: Es gibt deutsche Biere, die in HH selten vom Fass verfügbar sind. Etwa das großartige Schlenkerla & Kirsch der Braustelle.

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) August 13, 2014

Mangels Schlaf (nur 1,5h statt sonst 2-3 vor London) heute keine Verkostungsnotizen. Habe aber Namen der probierten 14 Biere geknipst. #GBBF

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) August 13, 2014

My Jerk City review on Yelp.com (in German)

After dinner, I visited M&M’s World on Leicester Square for the first time – not exactly my kind of place, but it was very crowded even late at night (I shot the video clip the following day).

Luckily, I made it to the airport early enough to have some post #GBBF beer. (@ London @HeathrowAirport (LHR)) https://t.co/cQSGuvFT0C

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) August 14, 2014

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