The White Lion in Norwich has the accolade of being the first to use the PintPicker beer "footprints" and tasting notes for its own very first festival. May there be many more! Initial reactions seem pretty positive (both to the festival and the footprints) and a couple of the local CAMRA guys seemed impressed. The footprints themselves appeared to be fairly self-explanatory (although one festival-goer was overheard to say that perhaps you needed a PhD to work it out - but retracted that later once he'd worked it out all by himself and then went on to say that he'd found himself in agreement with every beer he'd tasted so far!) The tasting notes can be downloaded from the White Lion website here: http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/whitelion/festival200902-beerlist.pdf

My particular favourite was Brew Company's Slaker (3.8) a fabulous pale ale that drinks way above its strength and has that wonderful combination of refreshing citrussy hoppyness and biscuity malt that I love.

So thanks to Ralph Holland and the team for organising a great four day event and we look forward to the next one in due course.