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The 28th Norwich Beer Festival, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich - 26th October 2005

The annual Brome Swan trip to the Norwich Beer Festival in St. Andrew's Hall occurs, in a chartered bus which takes us up from the pub right to the entrance. Luckily we have advance tickets and so skip right past the huge queue that creeps all around the corner almost to Elm Hill. As ever, the festival is faultless, although it's unusually hot and humid in the hall - outside was still around 13°C, compared to -2°C about eight years before. Much beer is consumed, and the Cawston Silver Band is in attendance again. It's also the first real test of a large-scale event with the new-ish super-wide-angle lens: it's always amusing what people will do for the camera if they think you're from the press.

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Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar

Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar

At the bar in St. Andrew's Hall

Russell and the SCC Massive

Russell tries to scratch off a Norwich quote

Russell, Dan 'Parrott', Russell, Nosher and Andrew B

Carol, Benny, Gerry and Gloria

The Cawston Silver Band get ready to kick off

Suey and Andrew

The other side of the bar

The Post-Horn Gallop

The post-horn guy heads off into the crowds

Crowd scenes

Paul wanders past

The Cawston's conductor does Jazz Hands

There's a load of singing going on

Wavy has a sing

Sarah and Wavy

The band takes the applause

Wavy licks Sarah's ear

Sazzle and Suey

There's a load of furious pint waving

Suey with a droopy roll-up ciggy

Wavy's in the zone

People with paper 'Nelson' hats

Andrew gets intimate with Wavy

Paul, Bindery Dave, Wavy, Twiglet Carl and Ping-Pong Peter

Parrott (40) phones his mum for a lift

Dave, Marc and Suey

Nosher (with beer-holster shirt) and Dave L

Wavy does a Michael Jackson-style crotch-grab

Ping-pong Peter grapples with Wavy's arse