BRAAS Birthday Celebration

Each year, it's become a bit of a tradition, that the Bo'ness Real Ale Festival celebrates an event, some activity or simply something of importance that has happened in Bo'ness whether recent or something from the past.

Past themes have been:-

• 2001 - The Bo'ness 400. Celebrating 400 years since harbour first opened
• 2002 - Way To Blue Music Festival - Falkirk wide
• 2004 - Bo'ness Town Hall Carnegie Library 100 year anniversary
• 2005 - Re-opening of Bo'ness Harbour
• 2006 - Announcement of Heritage Lottery funding to refurbish Scotland's first purpose-built cinema
• 2007 - Supporting Antonine Wall World Heritage Bid
• 2008 - Celebrating Antonine Wall designation as World Heritage Site
• 2009 - Supporting Get Hearty Campaign
• 2010 -

2010 is just a bit different but not much

You just might see a pattern here 2001-2010. You've got it in one!

It's our birthday!

We're 10 years old, (seems just like yesterday). It's been 10 years since the first one back in 2001. At the time it was never planned to make it an annual event but the following year we thought we'd give it a go.

And you know what happened? Enough people and more came and the rest is history, as the saying goes!

This year we decided to celebrate ourselves; firstly, 10 years is an anniversary and secondly, because everyone tells us that they look forward to it and it seems to have become a recognised annual event in Bo'ness, and further afield.

Some folks come from down south and even abroad!

So, there you have it! It's the International Bo'ness Real Ale Festival.

We thought that good enough for a commemorative theme and glass.