title The 28th Norwich Beer Festival, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich - 26th October 2005 intro The annual Brome Swan trip to the Norwich Beer Festival in St. Andrew's Hall occurs, in a chartered bus which takes us up from the pub right to the entrance. Luckily we have advance tickets and so skip right past the huge queue that creeps all around the corner almost to Elm Hill. As ever, the festival is faultless, although it's unusually hot and humid in the hall - outside was still around 13°C, compared to -2°C about eight years before. Much beer is consumed, and the Cawston Silver Band is in attendance again. It's also the first real test of a large-scale event with the new-ish super-wide-angle lens: it's always amusing what people will do for the camera if they think you're from the press. imgp2590 Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar imgp2596 At the bar in St. Andrew's Hall imgp2597 Russell and the SCC Massive imgp2602 Russell tries to scratch off a Norwich quote imgp2606 Russell, Dan "Parrott", Russell, Nosher and Andrew B imgp2610 Carol, Benny, Gerry and Gloria imgp2615 The Cawston Silver Band get ready to kick off imgp2621 Suey and Andrew imgp2627 The other side of the bar imgp2634 The Post-Horn Gallop imgp2636 The post-horn guy heads off into the crowds imgp2645 Crowd scenes imgp2646 Paul wanders past imgp2649 The Cawston's conductor does Jazz Hands imgp2658 There's a load of singing going on imgp2670 Wavy has a sing imgp2672 Sarah and Wavy imgp2677 The band takes the applause imgp2680 Wavy licks Sarah's ear imgp2681 Sazzle and Suey imgp2684 There's a load of furious pint waving imgp2686 Suey with a droopy roll-up ciggy imgp2688 Wavy's in the zone imgp2690 People with paper "Nelson" hats imgp2698 Andrew gets intimate with Wavy imgp2701 Paul, Bindery Dave, Wavy, Twiglet Carl and Ping-Pong Peter imgp2703 Parrott (40) phones his mum for a lift imgp2704 Dave, Marc and Suey imgp2707 Nosher (with beer-holster shirt) and Dave L imgp2709 Wavy does a Michael Jackson-style crotch-grab imgp2711 Ping-pong Peter grapples with Wavy's arse