The Beer Festival is a peculiarly British institution. Yes, many countries have their own celebrations of their own tipple, the enormous Oktoberfest, for example, bringing large swathes of Germany to alcoholic incapacity for several weeks. But the Beer Festival is far from an opportunity to get pissed en masse.
With every festival there comes a furthered appreciation of Beer in all its forms, and a forced acceptance in the fact that my education in such matters is, really, only just beginning.
