A south west London rugby union club is to host a new beer festival during the last May bank holiday weekend.
Fifty different handcrafted spring ales and beers from all over Surrey, London and beyond will be showcased, and tasted, at Rosslyn Park Football Club on 23 and 24 May.
Over a thousand of people are expected to turn up for this first edition of the Rosslyn Park Beer Festival.
Event organiser Phil said: “We will have beers and ciders from about 20 to 30 different producers.
“People will try beers and ciders that they won’t normally try, and most of them will come from smaller independent brewers.”
In addition to pints filled with names such as Surrey Nirvana, Staggeraurus or Chaos More Chaos, participants will try their hand at a new game straight from the Austrian Alps.
Phil said: “It is called ‘hammerschlagen’, but we are going to call it ‘der stumps’.
“It is a very popular bar game where you have to try and nail a nail into a log, using the reverse side of a hammer.
“It is a lot more difficult to do.”
Three bands from the area will also be playing live music during the two-days festival, with The Forty Fives and Leech Covers Band already confirmed.
All-inclusive tickets cost £27.50, and food and other drinks, including soft drinks will be available to purchase on the day.
Tickets include entry into the event, a free souvenir glass to take away home, live music and all beer and cider.
Phil said: “We’d love to see as much people from south west London, enjoy the bank holiday sunshine and have a pint.”
Rosslyn Park Football Club was founded in 1879 and currently has 1,500 playing members.
Rosslyn Park’s senior men’s squad, which operates as a semi-professional team, currently plays in National League One – two levels below English rugby union’s top division, the Gallagher Premiership.
Clubhouse manager Cori Poole said: “We coach minis and youth.
“We are starting again to have a women’s side.
“We also have a netball team.”
The festival will be held at the club’s home ground on Priory Lane, Upper Richmond Road, London SW15 5JH.
It runs from 7pm–11 pm on Friday 23 May, and 1pm-5pm followed by 7pm-11pm on Saturday 24 May, with tickets available here.
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