SIR – Just a quick note regarding the Worcester Beer Festival, prompted mainly by what I thought was a cheeky note on your Facebook site asking who’d had trouble getting in.

I volunteered to work there on Friday night as I have done for the past few years and had a great time doing it.

The atmosphere is always friendly and welcoming and the onus is very much on people having a nice evening out and trying something new.

The people running it do a tremendous job of keeping everything going and the huge attendance which led to the shortage of beer come Saturday night is clearly a testament to how popular the event is.

It’s a one-off event, so they can only guess at how many barrels will be needed.

It’s not a pub that will need a regular supply, the last thing they want is half full barrels left at the end that have to be written off.

So it will run out. Get down there earlier if this is a concern to you or look harder and try something new.

I was still having a few pints with another volunteer at about 10pm on Saturday night. If you were willing to look there was stuff left.

As for the queues, an event as popular as this is going to have them.

Book tickets on the internet if queuing is not your thing. Several commentators on Facebook will verify they did that and had no problem getting in!

Above all, Worcester News, we have things such as kids throwing bricks off bridges for you to be getting stroppy about, and several other issues that I’m sure your Fair Point columnist James Connell can inform you about.

Worcester Beer Festival is a key date in the summer calendar which everyone looks forward to and where everyone has a nice time with some potions they wouldn’t normally drink, some food they wouldn’t normally eat and some bands they wouldn’t normally listen to.

Cheers, Camra, another great job. See you next year.

MATT BIRD

Worcester

* Editor’s note: Who got stroppy? We didn’t.