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Memories are made of these!
It's a few weeks now since the end of the 2010 Bo'ness Real Ale Festival and almost just a distant memory but not quite!
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It’s EASY to make your own beer
An introduction to Home Brewing on Saturday 2nd October 2010 at 2pm till 5pm by local enthusiast real ale brewer, Brian Smith.
Find out the how, the why and the what's needed to get started brewing at home!
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Belgium Beer List in Call Harry's Bar
On both Friday and Saturday evenings you will also be able to sample some of the best of Belgian Beers in Call Harry's Bar (better known to locals as the town hall library).
Available in a variety of bottle sizes an...
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Help us celebrate and get your own commemorative polo shirt
To celebrate and raise funds for our annual donation; next year to breast cancer research; we have ordered polo shirts with our 10th birthday logo.
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Again this year there are some old, some new but as far as I'm aware none blue! The new ones, some of you may have heard off, and even tried but I'll bet they will all be good!
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Special birthday cake competition
As it's our birthday you have to have a cake so, traditionalists that we are, that's what we are going to have!
One of our committtee members, Giles, has a sister that is a dab hand at the cake baking stakes and turns h...
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4 Bands in Bo'ness Benefit from BRAAS donation
Each year, with the help of sponsorship from local companies, BRAAS donates excess funds to various groups and organisations in and around Bo'ness.
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Annual Presentation to Sponsors 2009
The Bo'ness Real Ale Festival is successful not only because it's a great weekend and everyone enjoys themselves but because each year all the barrels and almost everything else is sponsored by local companies.
Many ...
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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.
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Bo'ness Real Ale Festival 10th Anniversary
It only seems like yesterday! Doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself.
Yip, 2010 is our 10th Festival and this year it will on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October. Watch out here for details!
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Carronade finished in 12 minutes
Saturday night and the festival is in full swing (almost literally) when disaster strikes.
It's 10.30, closing time is still half-an-hour away and disaster - The Last beer runs out!
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Visit from Germany
News of the Bo'ness Real Ale and Music Festival has travelled to Germany - spurring a visit from the area's twinned region, Odenwald near Frankfurt.
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2009 Bo'ness Real Ale Festival - Beer List
Again this year we have some old, well-known, well-liked ales for you to enjoy but as usual a few other beers you may not have had the pleasure of trying yet. But this is you chance...
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Have a Heart campaign logo adapted for festival glassEarlier in the year local paper Bo'ness Journal & Gazette ran a Have a Heart Appeal to raise funds to provide defibrillators in and around towns in the area.After reading about it in local press it was ...
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Thanks to all our sponsors for another great year! It was 'cheers' all round as Bo'ness Real Ale Appreciation Society thanked sponsors who made last October's festival such a success....
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Report by Esther Hutcheson (Bo'ness Journal) - 1May 2009THE first week of the Journal and Gazette's Have A Heart campaign has got off to the best possible start thanks to our generous readers.A massive £1500 donation from the Bo'ness Real Ale Appreciatio...
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Bo'ness Town Hall, Stewart Avenue, Bo'nessFriday 2 October 2009 5pm till 11pmSaturday 3 October 2009 12 noon till 11pm
This year's Bo'ness Real Ale Festival is a week earlier and will be as good as and even better than last year.
BRAAS will continue wit...
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Welcome back BRAAS!!Sometime end of last year, after the 2008 festival, someone , for whatever reason other than they were able to, hacked into the site and corrupted a number of essential files and caused the site to bomb out!But undaunted, almost...It ...
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BRAAS donates £1900 to local good causes and thanks sponsors The 2007 Real Ale Festival was all but a memory but there was two final duties to perform:- To thank sponsors for their support Make donations to local good causes...
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BRAAS helps Linlithgow Marches setup new festivalThe Linlithgow Marches held in on the First Thursday after the Second Tuesday in June (don't ask me why) is an annual event to mark the boundary of the burgh stretching from 'The Brig' (Linlithgow Bridge) i...
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