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Eddington Craft Beer & Gin Festival returns to Storey’s Field Centre from 17 – 20 October.

Image credit: The Crane Event

The Festival was born just a year ago when local event management company The Crane Event was approached to fill a gap in the Storey’s Field Centre schedule at short notice. Teaming up with Cambridge Event Bars, they created this hugely successful happening which is returning for a second year by popular demand, with over 30 craft beers from the best independent breweries and over 20 gins (so that’s me sorted then!).

Eddington Craft Beer & Gin Festival — Image credit: The Crane Event

There’ll be a different street food van each day, music from Americana good time band Swamp Truck on Friday and a home brew competition on Sunday.

Lifelong Cambridge residents Justin and Jemma Crane founded The Crane Event three years ago. Operating from their Mitcham’s Corner office (and assisted by office dogs Ludo and Shadow), they have fused Justin’s project management expertise with Jemma’s marketing experience to create a business which works mainly on corporate events both nationally and internationally.

The Crane Event Cambridge — Image credit: The Crane Event

Cambridge Event Bars has been providing bars and bar service throughout the UK to private and public events, as well as festivals, since 2014.

I’ve yet to visit Storey’s Field Centre at Eddington but I’ve noticed it coming up more and more as a venue for all sorts of Cambridge events. Justin tells me it’s a really beautiful new, fresh building, fully equipped and eco friendly with several flexible spaces inside. As the Eddington population grows, Storey’s Field Centre has become a focus for community as well as corporate events.

Storey's Field Centre Cambridge — Image credit: The Crane Event

Getting to Eddington is easy. Either use the U bus or cycle (there’s plenty of cycle parking). If you decide to take the car, Madingley Park and Ride is just a five minute walk away.

Children are welcome at the Festival until 9pm each day and under 18’s get in free. Tickets are available on the door or you can pre-purchase through Eventbrite, where tickets are cheaper and will fast track you past any queues on the day.

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The nights are drawing in and there’s a nip in the air ….. my thoughts are turning to comfort food and I think I’ve just found my perfect comfort food destination.

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Business partners Luke Edwards and Stuart Tuck, who also own and run The Blue Lion at Hardwick, have refurbed The Architect pub on Castle Street and have brought a new food concept to the city, based around the nation’s favourite dishes of fish and chips and pie and mash. You design your own meal, following the menu to choose a main, a covering, a side dish and a sauce to create your ideal combination. There’s also a snack menu from which you can design your own sharing board.

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We mixed and matched merrily and enjoyed a delicious lunch. My steak and kidney pie was full of rich, tender meat in a golden, light pastry case and came with my choice of grainy mustard mash, braised red cabbage and a red wine and rosemary jus. My husband tucked into the classic favourite, cod in a crisp beer batter with excellent sweet potato fries, minted garden peas and a rustic tartare sauce.

Vegetarians and those who prefer to eat gluten free are well catered for here. Service is relaxed yet attentive. The pub is family friendly with a children’s menu coming soon and well behaved dogs are welcome in the bar area.

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A selection of eight craft beers, ranging from stout to weisse beer, is supplied by Everards of Leicester. If you can’t decide which beer to go for, you can create your own tasting panel; three one third of a pint samples of the beers of your choice. The pub also offers hand pump cider and craft lagers while the gin menu presents over twenty gins, so that’s me sorted! Now, where do I start …..??

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