festival history continued..
Fifth Guernsey Real Ale and Cider Festival 1996
La Feire Guernésiaise d'la vraie Bire et du Cidre
(grammatical mistake corrected, now du cidre..)
We were delighted to be offered the use of a marquee at the Friquet Country Hotel, a short hop from our previous site. It was last event before the marquee was coming down. We supplemented a side annex and for the first time had 2 bars (La Haout and La Bas, the high and the low, sponsored by Guernsey and Randall’s breweries)
Thursday evening was again quiet night but also this time round was no smoking as well. We had a good contingent of day trippers from Weymouth on the Saturday afternoon. The hotel catering also included a hog roast on site.
Thursday 3rd October 5-10.30 £2.50
Friday 4th October 10.30am-11.30pm £3.50
Saturday 5th October 10.30am- 11.30pm £3.50
season ticket £5.00
Venue- Marquee- Le Friquet country Hotel
54 beers on and the BOTF was for second year running Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild
17 ciders/perries and no bottled beer bar.
The entertainment-thurs eve- Quiet night, Fri eve Original Gravity, Sat afternoon Belles and Broomsticks Morris, sat eve Original Gravity
logo- Dan the Donkey
"Original Gravity" The entertainment
The two sponsored bars with uniform tee shirts...
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Sixth Guernsey Real Ale and Cider Festival 1997
La Feire Guernésiaise d'la vraie Bire et du Cidre
We moved to a new venue at the North British Legion at L’Islet, a lovely hall, our new home for 3 years. Our last Morris in the afternoon. For the first year we let someone else do the catering.
Thursday 2nd October 5.00-10-30 £2.50
Friday 3rd October .30am-11.30pm £4.00
Saturday 3rd October 10.30am- 11.30pm 3.50
season ticket £6.00
Venue-North Legion Hall L'Islet
62 beers on and the BOTF was for third time Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild
20 ciders/perries
The entertainment-thurs eve- Quiet night and no smoking, Fri eve Original Gravity, Sat afternoon Belles and Broomsticks Morris, sat eve Original Gravity
logo- Seagull
The bar at the new venue..ready to rock...
The blackboard now has lights and a frame.....
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Seventh Guernsey Real Ale and Cider Festival 1998
La Feire Guernésiaise d'la vraie Bire et du Cidre
We again allowed someone else to do the catering.
Friday afternoon the BBC Guernsey/Jersey Afternoon show was presented live from the festival, by Marc Curtis.
We had a minor panic only a couple of weeks before the festival about entertainment. Sadly OG had stopped performing so we were giving local bands a chance and the guitarist of the Friday night band broke his arm, a mad scramble got two young bands but there were complaints about the music being too loud and out of keeping. Thankfully on Saturday Red Leader and the bandits discussed the situation with us beforehand and played brilliantly, to set levels and finished bang on time, just how it should be. We had the hall rocking!
Thursday 1st October 5.00-10.30 £2.50
Friday 2nd October 10.30am-11.30pm £4.50
Saturday 4th October 10.30am- 11.30pm £3.50
season ticket £7.50
Venue-North Legion Hall L'Islet
55 beers on and the BOTF was Blue Anchor Spingo Special
14 ciders/perries
The entertainment-thurs eve- Quiet night and no smoking, Fri eve Martha's Harbour and The Sunchasers, Sat eve Red Leader and the Bandits
festival logo- spidercrab
Some of our Stewards -otherwise known as the Tango Team
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Eighth Guernsey Real Ale and Cider Festival 1999
La Feire Guernésiaise d'la vraie Bire et du Cidre
We had a Celtic theme with many of the beers coming from Wales, Brittany and Cornwall. We would love to have had Irish too but our suppliers could not get any.
Friday afternoon the BBC Guernsey/Jersey Afternoon show was again presented live from the festival, by Murray Norton this time.
This year we drafted in Eileen's sister Helen to do our own catering and they produced some wonderful beanjar!
For Friday evening we had Beyond the Pale and again on Saturday night Red Leader and the Bandits.
Thursday 7th October 10-30 £2.50
Friday 8th October 10.30am-11.30pm £4.50
Saturday 9th October 10.30am- 11.30pm £3.50
season ticket £7.50
Venue North Legion Hall L'Islet
57 beers on and the BOTF was Tréguier Brewery’s Dremmwel Rousse from Trégor, Brittany- there were 7 Breton beers on tap at this festival
13ciders/perries
entertainment-thurs eve- Quiet night and no smoking, Fri eve Beyond the Pale, Sat eve Red Leader and the Bandits
Helen hard at work
Hard work but lots of laughs... Vicki Stacey and Fran Torode
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The Millenium Pot luck Festival 2000
No advance tickets for this one and the stillage was in a small marquee at the side of the Hotel dining room. We used up glasses left over from previous festivals.
A large loss was made made...
Friday 27th October 5.00-11.00pm
Saturday 28th October 11.00-11.00
The Ambassador Hotel St Martin’s
20 beers on
10 ciders
….and some of the worse gales in memory!!!!
It was a great little festival but the public did not come to support it….to be fair, police were telling people not to go out and eventually hurricane force winds meant the marquee had to be pulled down in the early hours for safety reasons.
No entertainment, no logo, no pictures, no glasses.. no more festivals