Think its safe to say BBBB is something of an exception in making so much money due to its charity fundraising and the fact they get all their beers paid for by sponsors. A beer fest would be a great occasion but probably not such a great fundraiser unless we could pull in a lot of sponsorship for it. Not to mention a lot of volunteers to set up, staff, steward & break everything down again.

The other problem is the venue. Although the festival would likely take place over a weekend you'd need the venue for at least 3 days before (setup of racks and allowing beer to settle) and 1 or 2 days after (breaking everything down) - cant imagine many big enough venues locally with apporopriate facilities, toilets etc that would agree to be taken out of action for nearly a week. Mind you, for arguments sake if we could somehow get all the volunteering and sponsorship in place it may be worth asking the LSV for availability of the stadium outside of the rugby season and trying to follow the model Stockport beer festival uses at the footy ground, as thats become pretty well established there now. Last time I went was a few years ago not long after they moved to the footy ground, but at that time they had the beers & bars set up in a concourse under the stand, handy for toilet access and a food outlet, and allowing punters to use the seats in the stand.

A beer festival at LSV based on the model that Stockport use would be great 'leyther 1'. In fact it would be bl00dy fantastic. Lobby and real ale, oh aye now your talking.

Who is going to drive it with LSV co?

And as for anyone who says you can't have real ale at at a sports stadium, how do Halifax RL manage it over at the Shay?

All that is needed is to adopt a 'can do' attitude. It is amazing what you can then achieve.

Would be fantastic, always been a bit bemused as to why Leigh doesn't have a beer festival. Hopefully we have a Leigh fan that helps with organising Bent n' Bongs that could advise and if it was for LISA a cheeky peak into Rob Parker's address book for sponsors would be helpful. Question is would the LSV cooperate and how much would they want? Speaking of Leigh and real ale what's going on with Urban Hop? Head they existed and then nothing else.

Lobby and Ale day at LSV combined with double header Swinton v Dewsbury followed by Leigh v Batley cw 2/3 local bands, supporting a national and local charity

Not a huge revenue maker for the club, but very much a ' feel good ' factor and interest raiser

Originally it was Leyth,Bent and Bongs beer festival