A tiresome question from an EOTR newbie.

[retromoz]

Hello.

Experienced festival goer of 18 years. But 1st time at End Of The Road. Starting to get quite excited.

My question relates to alcohol. I do not see anywhere that home-brought booze is not allowed in the 'arena' area. IS this the case?!? I mean, im not planning on getting poo-faced (im 37). But, yer know, a wee dram of vodka from a hipflask could be nice of an evening.

ALSO, are beer/cider/bar prices as reasonable as the website says?!? £3 a pint?!? At a festival?!? Surely not?!?

Do tell. Thanks.

[zahidf]

Dunno about bar prices, but in terms of stuff in the arena, i believe they only stop you taking glass in. Very relaxed otherwise.

[retromoz]

Cheers, dood.

[Fareham Grecian]

Real ale is around £3.60 a pint if memory serves. And it may not cos I drank far too much of it last year.

And just to confirm the alcohol point, yes you can take in whatever you want except glass. Hipflasks, wine boxes, own cans, all very commonplace.

[cmouse]

Is the beer festival on this year?I didn't spot anything about it on the site but that doesn't mean it isn't there!

[Nigey_boy]

No beer list, no set times....is this Latitude???

[riverlodge]

dont think they have listed them (that list +/- corrections usually makes the programme though), but pretty sure i saw something on the site about there being ~50 odd beers represented?

[cmouse]

I certainly need to try many more this year than I got around to last year. I'm guessing we bought a programme last year but I can't find it anywhere now. I was going to have a look at the list to remind myself what brews to expect.

[riverlodge]

this was it:

We have Six bars on site

The Peacock Bar - Located on the semi circle

The Black Crow - Located in the main village area.

The Badger Inn - Located in the Tipi's

The Garden Bar - Located at the Garden Stage

The Dancefloor shed - Located at the Forest Dancefloor

The Somerset Cider Bus - Located near the Tipi's and fire.

The Peacock Bar will be hosting End of the Road’s Third Real Ale festival and will be serving no less than 50 different ales across the weekend.

[cmouse]

Doh! Just me being a thickie and not reading it properly then :-)

[Fareham Grecian]

Isn't the 'semicircle' the bit on the route between the Garden Stage and the other stages/main village, by the little cottage? If so that's not where the beer festival was last year, it was at the big bar at the top of the slope in front of the main stage where it is much less crowded, and where you can stay around the bar area and still hear/see the main stage, and I thought worked brilliantly. Hope I've misunderstood this...

[riverlodge]

FG just checked where I got the info - definitely to be found under festival information, not a 2012 site.

but reading it again I'd agree with you & think that is out of date. Black Crow was in the village but is now by the Woods stage and it was definitely where the beer choice was last year.

[Fareham Grecian]

Yes, I agree riverlodge. Hope you're rright and it's not actually a change, maybe just a c&p error.

[retromoz]

one more query. Getting excited now...

How 'quiet' is the quiet camping? And am i to assume that the majority of camp isnt exactly 'loud' anyways? I do like sleep when i want it.....

Thanks road-ers.

[zahidf]

one more query. Getting excited now...

How 'quiet' is the quiet camping? And am i to assume that the majority of camp isnt exactly 'loud' anyways? I do like sleep when i want it.....

Thanks road-ers.