At least the beer won’t be watery!
Date published: 05 September 2008
JUST TESTING: Peter Fox, museum curator Richard Hotchkis, festival organiser for the Friends of Saddleworth Museum, and Ken Holt, from Camra (Oldham Rochdale and Bury).
CHEERS! Beer lovers can shrug off the wet weather blues this weekend in the pleasures of ale.
The 17th annual Saddleworth Beer Festival starts today, and the three-day event, in the museum at Uppermill, promises to titillate the tastebuds of ale enthusiasts. The festival features 10 local real ales and beer from microbreweries in Greenfield, Mossley and Rochdale.
Tonight, Pennine Jazz Band will entertain the drinkers, and live music is planned for tomorrow evening from 7.30pm. And first to tap the kegs were, from left, Peter Fox, museum curator Richard Hotchkis, festival organiser for the Friends of Saddleworth Museum, and Ken Holt, from Camra (Oldham Rochdale and Bury).
