On Friday evening I went to the Rochford Beer Festival with Chris and Peter and met Derek (a.ka. the Lone Gunman) there. I lost Chris and Peter after about 10 minutes - I later found out there is another room which I didn't know anything about. Anyway I had a few beers, probably the best of which was Boggarts Dark Mild - 4.0% ABV and apart from this I sampled a few Christmas Beers.

I think next year I will get there much earlier in the afternoon and not at 7:15pm. We had to queue for about 20 minutes to get in and once inside it was far too crowded for my liking - the best thing about it was the glass which I retained and am now using.