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You can find the story on this year's brewing on the News page.

The Festival starts its set-up on a Monday morning and there are two days of hectic activity to get the hall ready for our first visitors on Wednesday lunchtime.

Without customers, the hall sparkles and awaits the thirsty throng.

In 2011, recognising the incredible growth in London's new breweries, the Festival had a special bar dedicated to their beers and it proved tremendously popular.

The contrast between an empty hall and one full of happy drinkers can clearly be seen.

The Festival is proud to run its own kitchen with volunteer staff and a side-hall has tables for sit down eating but just in case people get hungry, there are other options!

There's plenty to do besides serving beer and the door stewards get their station ready before opening time.

And no sooner has the Festival seemingly opened than Saturday morning and the big clear out comes.