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Say HELLO to the Website!
Jim Cullen Jim Cullen

Say HELLO to the Website!

Say HELLO to the new website!

It seems like each year is say “This is the last ISBF” And each year nobody would believe me. They knew I'd want to do it again. And they were right.

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The Best Things Take Time
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The Best Things Take Time

The early days of "planning" this bash are some of the most exciting.

These are the days when you have all sorts of wild ideas and have to calm yourself down and think "It's only beer" (© Chris)

I seem to fall into the same trap every year. And front load. With the strongest beers. And yes, I've done it again. I already know the first beer. And it's very special.

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The “Future”...
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The “Future”...

It started off so simply.

A little beer festival. To raise money for a small Community Centre in the heart of Salford. A place with a multiplicity of pulls on the strings of my heart.

I didn't know what I'd gotten myself into, didn't realise that - in the nicest of ways - it would change my life. But it has. Oh how it has.

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