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Fortunately for UNOB fans, this rabbit is merely holding a gigantic beer: he's foretold that you'll be travelling to a far distant land, where beer is served by the bucketload: Beer Fests!

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May 2008 Beer Festivals guide

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April 30th-May 3rd
Nerax: New England Real Ale Exhibition
Somerville, MA, USA
Website

1st-3rd
Mild and Wild Beer Festival
Dewsbury, W. Yorks, UK
Website

1st-3rd
Kingdom of Fife Beer Festival
Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, UK
Website

1st-4th
Reading Beer Festival
Reading, Berks, UK
Website

1st-5th
Oddfellows Beer Festival
North Shields, Tyneside, UK
Website

1st-5th
Telford Beer Festival
Telford, UK
Website

2nd-3rd
Peterborough RUFC Beer Festival
Fengate, Peterborough, UK
Website

2nd-5th
Blandford Beer Festival
Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK
Website

2nd-5th
Royal Oak Beer Festival
Ockbrook, Derbs, UK
Website

2nd-5th
Driftwood Spars Beer Festival
St Agnes, Cornwall, UK
Website

3rd-4th
Birstall RFC Beer Festival
Birstall, Leicester, UK
Website

4th-5th
Southern California Homebrewer’s Festival
Temecula, CA, USA
Website

TBA
Beer on the Pier Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Website

5th-6th
Great Japan Beer Festival
Tokyo, Japan
Website

8th-10th
Banbury Beer Festival
Banbury, Oxon, UK
Website

9th-10th
Mayfest
Halifax, UK
Website

9th-10th
Macclesfield Beer Festival
Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK
Website

9th-10th
Clarets Trust Beer festival
Burnley, Lancs, UK
Website

9th-10th
Ilkeston (Erewash Valley) Beer festival
Ilkeston, Derbs, UK
Website

9th-11th
Welsh Highland Railway Real Ale Festival
Caernarvon, Wales, UK
Website

10th
East Atlanta Beer Festival
Atlanta, GA, USA
Website

10th
Boonville Beer Festival
Boonville, CA, USA
Website

10th-11th
CAMRA bar at Newark and Nottingham County Show
Winthorp, Notts, UK
Website

TBA
Bradford-on-Avon RFC Beer Festival
Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, UK
Website

14th-17th
Rugby Beer Festival
Rugby, UK
Website

15th-17th
Devon County Show and Beer Festival
Exeter, Devon, UK
Website

15th-17th
German Bier Festival
Lambeth, London, UK
Website

15th-17th
Chester Charity Beer Festival
Chester, UK
Website

15th-18th
May Beer Festival Part 1
The Black Horse, Darwen, Lancs, UK
Website

16th-17th
Beacon Hill Beer Festival
Hindhead, Surrey, UK
Website

16th-17th
SAVOR Food and Beer Festival
Washington, DC, USA
Website

16th-17th
Frankenmuth World Expo of Beer
Frankenmuth, MI, USA
Website

16th-17th
Barrow Hill Roundhouse Beer Festival
Chesterfield, UK
Website

16th-17th
Stratford-upon-Avon Beer & Cider Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon racecourse, UK
Website

16th-17th
Brewer's Memorial Ale Fest
Newport, OR, USA
Website

16th-18th
Shepley Spring Festival
Shepley, Yorks, UK
Website

16th-18th
Bell and Bear Beer Festival
Rowley Regis, West Mids, UK
Website

16th-18th
Yapton Beerex
Yapton, nr. Arundel, W. Suss, UK
Website

17th
Dunwoody Hops for Hope
Dunwoody, GA, USA
Website

19th-24th
35th Cambridge Beer Festival
Cambridge, UK
Website

TBA
Wisconsin Microbrewers Beer Fest
Calumet County Fairgrounds, Chilton, WI
Tel: +1 920 849 2534

20th-23rd
Sochi Beer Festival
Sochi, Russia
Website

22nd-24th
Lincoln Beer Festival
Lincoln, UK
Website

22nd-24th
Top of the Hops
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Website

22nd-24th
Stourbridge Beer Festival
Stourbridge, UK
Website

22nd-25th
General Clinton Regatta
Ommegang, NY, USA
Website

22nd-26th
May Beer Festival Part 2
The Black Horse, Darwen, Lancs, UK
Website

23rd-24th
Skipton Beer Festival
Skipton, N. Yorks, UK
Website

23rd-25th
Newark Beer Festival
Newark, Notts, UK
Website

23rd-25th
Surrey Oaks Beer Festival
Parkgate, Newdigate, Surrey, UK
Website

27th-31st
Colchester Beer Festival
Colchester, Essex, UK
Website

28th-1st June
Mondial de la Biere
Montreal, QC, Canada
Website

29th-31st
Delapre Abbey Beer Festival
Northampton, UK
Website

29th-31st
Stockport Beer & Cider Festival
Stockport, UK
Website

29th-1st June
Beer Olympics
Dewsbury, W. Yorks, UK
Website

30th-31st
St Ives Beer Festival
St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Website

31st
Alton Summer Beer Festival
Alton, Hants, UK
Website

6th
Noogfest
Chatanooga, TN, USA
Website

31st
Maryland Brewers Springfest
Frederick, MD, USA
Website

31st
Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival
Richmond, VA, USA
Website

31st May-1st June
Loch Lomond Food and Drink Festival
Loch Lomond Shores, Ballach, Scotland, UK
Website

TBA
Extreme Beer Festival
Downtown Bar and Grill, NYC, USA
Link to our Downtown Bar and Grill review

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