With a Mix of UK and Greek Food-Beer-Entertainement
The Corfu Beer Festival returns this year and will take place from Wednesday 8th October – Sunday 12th October.
This annual event provides the exclusive opportunity to network and join together within a mix of different cultures, cuisine and entertainment from Greece and abroad. This year England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales of the UK will be represented and showcased during the five days alongside Corfu. It was successfully launched in 2013 when Corfu met Bavaria, Germany.
The festival promises to be a memorable week with a blend of food, drink and dance from both Southern and Western Europe. Each evening there will be outstanding entertainment from key bands and groups including Jazz, Rock, Blues and Greek music. During the days, visitors will have the chance to participate in local seminars and demonstrations about the traditions and tastes of both cultures. Visitors can experience and taste beers from both Corfu and the UK as well as eat mouth-watering food from both regions during the week.
ENTERTAINMENT – A full schedule of live entertainment is planned for each evening including dances and bands covering all aspects of the UK and Greece from traditional to modern, and from rock to pop! Celtic Storm, Ireland’s leading Irish Dance troupe, will travel to Corfu to provide top class entertainment dedicated to the promotion and representation of Irish Dancing in Ireland and beyond. The Celtic Storm Irish Dancers were established in 2004 and has become the premier Irish Dance entertainment company in Ireland.
Often seen dancing around London, traditionally at the start of the season by the River Thames in Hammersmith on Boat Race Day, the Hammersmith Morris Men will show guests in Corfu the English Morris Dance, putting on their own famous stamp of good music and energetic style.
More Celtic music will be heard from the Greek group ‘Beer for Breakfast’ along with other well-known and newer music from the UK. Every evening there will be a feature band or dance group to entertain including ‘The Mojo Bunch Blues Band’, ‘3 & The Cuckoo Band’ and ‘The Splinter Band’ with English pop rock and blues, Greek traditional folk music, as well as the Greek singer and band ‘George Gakis & the Troublemakers’.
Cultural Greek dancing will be seen from several Greek dance groups including the Arillas Cultural Club, the Krini Cultural Club ‘Angelokastro’, Epirotic Society of Corfu and the Pagi Cultural Club.
BEERS FROM PARTICIPATING BREWERS – Five guest brewers from the UK taking part at the 2014 Corfu Beer Festival are confirmed as The Little Beer Corporation (England), The Kelburn Brewing Company (Scotland), Conwy Brewery (Wales), Everards Brewery (England) and The Galway Bay Brewery (Ireland).
Each brewer will work together with Corfu-Beer from Greece to ensure that all guests will be able to experience a range of different ales and beers of various tastes and strengths. Collaboration between Corfu-Beer and the UK guest brewers will see Corfu-Beer working closely with them in terms of ingredients and equipment so they can produce their own unique beers at the Corfu Microbrewery. Guest brewers will travel to Corfu a month before the festival for brewing and quality control and October will see the return of the brewers to be able to serve their own brand during the five day festival.
Claudio Mouzakitis, Head Brewer and Director of Corfu-Beer, will be in charge of the production. He has a wealth of experience and knowledge in the industry and was responsible for the creation of the unique Corfu-Beer special, ‘Koroibos Ale’, exclusively produced for the London Olympic Games in 2012. Mouzakitis said “This is an enormous privilege to work alongside fellow brewers from the UK and to be entrusted with their production at our microbrewery. We are excited about this joint venture and will ensure that the standards of the UK brewers are upheld”.
Discussing the opportunity to join the Corfu Beer Festival this October, Kelburn Brewery family member Ross Moore said “We are looking forward to have the chance to brew in a different brew-plant, especially one in another country. This will give our brewers a great experience and allow them to see if they can achieve similar results as we do here in Scotland”.
Gwynne Thomas of Conwy Brewery in Wales said “It’s fantastic to be working with Corfu Brewery and have our bestselling Welsh Pride ale brewed by them and sold at the Corfu Beer Festival this October”. Visitors to the festival will also be able to have the chance to drink the local beer from Corfu. Corfu-Beer is a microbrewery based in Arillas and is Greece’s only real ale producing brewery. The festival itself will take place at the Corfu-Beer grounds this October.
FOOD – Amongst the food offered will be traditional English Steak Pies, Fish and Chips as well as Battered English Sausages. Greek cuisine will showcase Greek Moussaka, Gyros Pita and Souvlakis as well as the Greek style mini doughnuts Loukoumades. In addition, restaurant owner and chef from Corfu, Spiros Afthinos, will provide cookery demonstrations throughout the event maximising on the use of “beer in food”!
For a full schedule and timings during the week, look out for news on website www.corfubeerfest.gr and sign up for the newsletter by contacting info@corfubeerfest.gr
Sponsorship opportunities: Contact info@corfubeerfest.gr or Tel: 0030 69768 94095
