Black Country pub adds cider to beer festival
A cider festival run by a Black Country pub is to be incorporated into a new beer event being run in Brierley Hill.
The Dudley Beer Festival is being held in Brierley Hill Civic Hall, BankStreet, from July 29 to 31 as part of the wider Black Country Festival.
Licensee of The Jolly Crispin, Upper Gornal, Rob Carey, said: "The Crispin will not be running our regular cider festival in October because we are developing our Christmas fair, but we are proud to be having our cider festival, in conjunction with the festival at Brierley Hill Civic Hall.
The Crispin bar will also be selling a range of fruit wines and is raising funds for Compton Hospice.
The new festival runs from 12 noon each day and will involve beers from a dozen breweries in the Black Country.
There will be meet the brewer sessions each day, a comedy night on the Friday, music on the Saturday night and comedy from Fizzog Productions on the Sunday.
The Jolly Crispin has won the Campaign for Real Ale Dudley and South Staffordshire branch cider pub of the year award for three years in a row.
