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Our next event will take place from Friday 16 till Sunday 18 July 2010. More great beers and ciders and free live music.

NEW £6000 DONATED TO CHSW

3/10/09. Beer festival team make massive awards to chosen-charity CHSW. see more photos

More details about this great charity here

2009 FESTIVAL - you drank us dry !

Thanks for your massive support over the weekend of 10th - 12th July.

You had drunk the bar dry by 6.00pm on Sunday and we hope that you werent put out by having to spend any remaining beer tokens at the bar.

Most popular cider (the first to go ) was Broadoak's Old Bristolian. With a local connection and abv of 8.4%, we arent surprised! First beer to go (we think) was Box's Dark and Handsome, then the Doom Bar.

............and we had a surprise visitor !

Dr Liam Fox, local MP and Shadow Defence Secretary, tries his namesake brew 'Fiery Fox'. Organiser Kat Sweet ensures she doesnt miss out on this crisp welsh cider.

Liam's wife and fellow doctor, Jesme and daughter Sarah also dropped in to support the event on Saturday afternoon. Many thanks for thinking of us and our charity.

BEERS AND CIDERS

45 beers and 28 ciders and perrys were on-show for 2009, with many that were new to the Nailsea festival. See our list of beers and Ciders

WEATHER

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FREE LIVE MUSIC

Great to see favouties like the Somerset Paddies (pictured above) bring the house down on Sunday. They could have played all night. Thanks too to all the artists and entertainers who gave their time and talents for free. See full 2009 line up

Meanwhile, we were invaded by some twenty oompa loompas. They also caused severe strain on our cider supplies!

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES...

We are not for profit. We give all proceeds from the village fete and raffles etc and 25% of beer festival profits to our charity. We share the rest with the Rugby Club to help-foster sport in Nailsea. Below are some of our success stories.

23/9/2008 We were delighted to donate a fantastic £4300 to the West of England MS Centre in November 2008 as a result of your suppport. Read more about the charity.

27/9/07 Childen's cancer charity CLIC-Sargent were chosen to benefit from the 2007 event. At a presentation on 27 Sept 2007, we were able to hand over a cheque for £5300 as a result of your magnificent support Read more about CLIC-Sargent.

01/09/06 Get Kids Going! were the charity chosen by us to benefit from this year's event. As a result of record attendances at the 2006 festival, the Club was delighted to hand over a chque for £3200 to Get Kids Going!, who promote sports for disabled children. Read More

20/09/05 The Club did its bit to help CHSW reach its target of fifteen million pounds to build a new hospice at Charlton Farm in Wraxall, with a donation of £3500 from the 2005 event. Read More about the Appeal

01/10/04 Our first event raises (with a little help from Next PLC) £2520 for children's charity Dreams Come True. Read more about this charity.

SPONSORSHIP

We are indebted to our sponsors who helped make the 2009 event possible, and in particular, to our main sponsor Burchills.