Humpty Dumpty Brewery

Reedham Beer Festival - 22-24 July 2011

We are pleased once again to be hosting the family-friendly Reedham Beer Festival at the Reedham Village Hall and Playing Fields [NR13 3HL] from Friday, 22 July through Sunday, 24 July. 

This year we are looking to have up to 60 different real ales (with up to 20 ales on at any time) from local and regional microbreweries as well as ciders and perries from Norfolk producers.  We'll have fresh food and live music at every session as well, including barbecue catering from Chilli Willy's / PepperBellies and the gorgeous Samphire rare breed pork pies that went down so well last year.  We'll also bring along the Kubb game.

We are pleased to announce this year's beer list, complete with tasting notes and beer profiles thanks to the lovely folks at PintPicker.

The music line-up this year includes:

Friday evening (6PM - 11PM):  Chuffinches - folk, skiffle, swamp rock, reggae and ska

Saturday afternoon (12 Noon - 5PM):  traditional and contemporary Celtic folk from Rum Kelter, along with Border Morris dancing from Pedants' Revolt.

 

Saturday evening (5PM - 8PM):  Just Jammin' with Carl and Danny

Saturday night (8PM - 11PM):  Big Red Boat - folk, blues and rock with a 1970s feel

Sunday afternoon (12 Noon - 6PM):  folk pop from crowd pleasers John Ward and Mario Price

 

The festival runs from 6PM - 11PM on Friday, 12 Noon to 11 PM on Saturday and 12 Noon to 6PM on Sunday.

Don't drink and drive - come by rail

There are trains from Norwich, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth calling at Reedham station, which is about five minutes' walk from the festival.

Late running trains:

Friday, 22 July

To Norwich:  2213, 2313, 2347, 2352
To Lowestoft: 2225, 2259

To Great Yarmouth:  Take the Norwich-bound train to Brundall and change for the Yarmouth-bound train:  2213 from Reedham arrives 2235 at Brundall, change for the 2309 to Great Yarmouth.  This is the last train of the evening.

Saturday, 23 July

All services same as Friday

Sunday, 24 July

The festival ends at 6PM.  There are numerous direct services from Reedham to all three hubs running late into the evening.  Why not stick around in Reedham and enjoy one of our three brilliant local pubs?

To Norwich: 1813, 1831, 2013, 2033 and later
To Lowestoft: 1916, 2116
To Great Yarmouth: 1755, 1955

All train services are subject to change / cancellation and are outside the responsibility of the beer festival and Humpty Dumpty Brewery.  The brewery accepts no responsibility for any changes to the above schedules - please check your travel plans with National Rail or National Express East Anglia prior to travel.

This page will update.  Please check back for more information as the Reedham Beer Festival approaches.

 

 

 

One Million Pints of Humpty Dumpty

Upper left, landlord Mick Lee receives the delivery of the firkin containing the millionth pint
from our drayman Jason Clark.  Upper right, Caron and Mick Lee with Stephen and Jimmy
from the brewery. Lower left, Mick pulls the millionth pint.  Lower right, Lara Bolen
raising a toast with the lucky pint.

We are pleased to announce that the one millionth pint of Humpty Dumpty Brewery ale was sold last night at the Blue Lion in North Pickenham, Norfolk.  Lucky customer Lara Bolen ordered the pint of Reedcutter about 9PM from landlord Mick Lee and was greeted by Lesley, Stephen and Jimmy from the brewery.  Lara received a "Brewer's Selection" mixed case of Humpty Dumpty beers and a rugby shirt for buying the millionth pint.  She said that she was a fan of our beers and was delighted to win the prize, which included a bottle of her favourite, Bad Egg.

We worked out the millionth pint on the basis of our duty records going back to the start of our current partnership operation in September 2006.  We've had a countdown in the brewery for the past few weeks and finally reached the milestone early last week when Mick ordered the designated firkin of Reedcutter. Although the Blue Lion's buying our millionth pint was completely by chance, Mick pointed out that he has been one of our oldest and most regular customers.  He checked his records and found that he had our 57th invoice back in late 2006 and had ordered a firkin of Reedcutter on that occasion as well. 

We were delighted to spend the evening participating in the pub quiz in the friendly company of Mick and Caron and the customers at the Blue Lion, and we're very pleased that the millionth pint went to Lara.