Farnham Beer Exhibition
farnham beer exhibition usually informally known farnham beerex beerex longest established beer festival united kingdom held annually premise held farnham surrey first beerex took place serf charity fundraiser lion club farnham held farnham surrey first beerex took place three year camra established mean promoting traditional caskconditioned beer british brewery line camras aim whilst raising money charity concept idea two camra member also member farnham lion club two paul blowfield ralph carter inspired camras covent garden beer festival london took idea two organisation joined farnham maltings association organise first event predated first camra great british beer festival month event attracted attendee anticipated necessitating additional supply beer glass originally planned oneoff event taken place every year since farnham maltings late april early may still organised three organisation event nd take place farnham maltings april – organised staffed entirely unpaid volunteer admission advance ticket generally sellout within hour release month event event raised excess £ mainly local charity good cause lion club farnham instrumental raising awareness traditional beer farnham area boast number independent brewery including longerestablished hog back brewery special halfpint glass issued year limited edition pint glass th st exhibition collectable reach high value since souvenir programme carried frontcover cartoon bill tidy booklet cartoon published farnhamlionsorguk