8:45am Thursday 2nd July 2009
Tickets are selling well for this year’s Devizes Beer Festival, taking place at the Wharf on Saturday.
Those wishing to go along are being urged to make sure they buy tickets before the event as space is limited and many people had to be turned away last year.
Organiser Don Jones said: “Tickets are £6, same as last year. For the last couple of years all tickets have gone before the day so we recommend people get in quick.”
Tickets are on sale at Devizes Books, the British Lion and the Carter’s Rest in Wroughton.
There will be music throughout the day from glam-rock tribute band Same Old Faces, Clare and Tom, The Town Band, Double Take, Perfect Patch and Builtforcomfortbluesband.
The festival prides itself on being a family event and activities for children include a Punch and Judy show and face painting.
There will be more than 50 real ales from as far afield as the Orkneys, Lancashire, Northumberland, Renfrew-shire in Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, Sussex, Gloucestershire and, of course, Wiltshire.
There will be more quirky beers like a chocolate orange stout, a vanilla porter, a raspberry beer, ginger beer, pink beer and one called I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bitter.
All proceeds will this year go to the Crown Centre in Devizes.
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