Sedgley Beer festival is on its way.

Pic at Sedgley Scout hut where they are setting up for the charity beer festival.

Transcript

00:00Hi, we're here at Sedgley. It's the first Sedgley Scout Festival coming up this weekend,

00:05starting on Friday night at 5. It raises lots of funds for the charities in Sedgley. It's

00:12put on each year by the first Sedgley Scout Group. This is David Boar, who is the chairman

00:16of the festival, and he's going to tell us why it's such a great thing for the Sedgley

00:20community. Well, it's a great community event. All the local folks come along and enjoy great

00:26music, great beer. We've got gins, rums, ciders. We've got something for everyone.

00:33And you've got 36 real ales this year? 36 real ales, and lots of revelers coming.

00:39And you've got live music? Live music, yeah. Over the last nine years,

00:45we've raised over £90,000 for local charities and the Scout Association.

00:50And you've got a gin bar as well, and ciders. Ciders, and a few rums thrown in for good measure.

00:58Jolly good. We'll look forward to it. Dave, any particular interesting beers you're quite

01:03looking forward to hosting? Well, we're privileged that we're being

01:07sponsored by Anvil Ales, Hobsons, and Ludlow Gold. So Ludlow Gold is lovely. We've got

01:21Anvil Ginger, and we've got Anvil, normal Anvil Ale, and we've got the Anvil Gothic,

01:28which is one of their new beers. I was going to say, I've not come across the Gothic.

01:31Gothic has ginger. It's their stout with ginger in it. Have you tried that yet then?

01:38Yeah, we have had it before in Sedgley. It's a nice drink, yeah? Yeah, it's very nice.

01:43And obviously the local Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild. They've won awards, haven't they?

01:48That's the Beacon pub just down the way. So I guess when we get to winter,

01:53you start getting winter ales, so you start getting the more stouty, darker ales, don't you?

01:57We have about six stouts, but the ones that sell best are the pale hoppy beers.

02:03Those are the ones that we sell the most of. We have some from the Twisted Spire,

02:09which is a Hobsons one. I think it's 3.4 or 3.5 if somebody's just having a load,

02:14right up to the Ruby Mild, which is 6 point something.

02:17So we've mentioned some lovely beers. If I was going to buy you a pack of beer for Christmas,

02:22what would be in there? Give me a couple of shout outs of what you like to have a tipple of at home.

02:26Well, I mean, I'll go far wrong with the Anvil. I've had the Anvil Ginger and the Anvil Ale

02:34and the normal Anvil Porter. I had those at my daughter's wedding last weekend.

02:40Ah, fantastic.

02:41So those would probably be two or three of my favourites.

02:44Have you switched your daughter on to an ale?

02:46Yes, she quite likes, she loves the Anvil Ginger.

02:49Does she? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:51Fantastic, great. And these are all chilling now, aren't they?

02:54Yes, these are all chilling ready and we'll probably tap and vent them tomorrow

02:58and put the taps in and then just see how they're getting along.

03:03Is that straightforward, putting the taps in, or is that where you get all pear-shaped and you end up with...

03:07Well, yeah, we just vent them off at the top here and then we put the taps in the splines here.

03:13Got you. Ready for pouring.

03:15Great stuff. Well, enjoy the festival, mate. I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun.

03:18It will be. Thank you.

03:21Cheers!