Suds & Soda summer beer festival 2024 interview

We spoke to Lee Roach, manager at Suds & Soda bar in Derby, who is overseeing this year's summer beer festival

Transcript

00:00I'm with Lee Roach who is the manager at Suds & Soda in Derby. How are you doing Lee?

00:08Very well, thank you.

00:09This is the second beer festival that Suds & Soda is holding.

00:13It is.

00:14Are you excited about it?

00:16Yeah, yeah.

00:17Yeah?

00:18Of course, yeah. We've got some great stuff on this time round.

00:20The last one was great but this one's going to be even better.

00:23Okay. How many beers have you got on tap, on draft?

00:27We've got, there's going to be 20 different taps.

00:31That includes keg, cask, some bag and box stuff.

00:35So there's going to be 18 different types of beer, two different ciders.

00:39And there's also a bottle share programme this time around as well.

00:43There's five different bottle shares that people can get involved with.

00:46Each bottle share is limited to six spaces, I think it is.

00:51And you can just buy your place in the bottle share.

00:56I think some of them start about £6 and then the more expensive ones are £7 a share

01:00because most of them are quite expensive imported bottles.

01:04Okay. So I guess that gives people a really great idea to taste different beers

01:08that they wouldn't usually have.

01:09Oh yeah, yeah.

01:10Stuff that you, unless you're prepared to shell out, you know,

01:14£30, £40, £50 on a bottle of beer to try it, this is the best way to do it

01:19because you only have to spend £6 or £7 and you can try these great beers.

01:22Yeah. Do you have any favourite bottles or bottle share that you want to be participating in Lee?

01:28I'm really looking forward to trying the Cascade stuff.

01:31Okay.

01:33But all of them, all of them are going to be great.

01:35They're all going to be great.