Goodness me doesn’t time fly! It’s been a while since the last blog post but much has been happening.

The 10th Loch Ness Beer Festival – can it really be the 10th one already??!! – will run from the 16th – 24th September 2011. Beer ordering is well underway and we should have some marvellous ales to sample including some from….wait for it…..the Loch Ness Brewery! Yes it’s been so long in the incubation that many were starting to think it was as elusive as Nessie herself but the time is nearly upon us for the beers to be launched.

The nominated charity for this year’s Festival is Breast Cancer Care Scotland, more of which in our next blogpost which will be published very soon.

Breweries confirmed are all our stalwarts – Isle of Skye, Fyne Ales, An Teallach, Cairngorm, Orkney/Atlas, Highland Brewing, Stewart Brewing and Inveralmond. We’ll have more to confirm in the very near future….

Music will be from Tipsy Laird (16th) and The Penny Dogs (23rd & 24th) as well as a folk night on the 17th. There will be an official CAMRA beer tasting on the afternoon of the 17th and a fabulous Steve’s Pub Quiz on the 22nd. The traditional Beer Festival Pool Competition will be on the Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday and we hope to have a whisky tasting and a Meet The Brewer session at some point too.