25-30 October 2021
Organiser: Craig Harmer, deputies Chris Rouse, Sandy Gooch
The Festival returned in 2021, despite a surge in COVID infections in early October. With massive uncertainty regarding attendance, the organisers focused on reducing fixed costs, by increasing the proportion of local brewery beers, and asking the breweries to supply a percentage of their orders as Sale or Return.
For the first time, there was no music, and the beer order was reduced significantly, from around 800 firkins in 2019 to around 600. Beers were arranged alphabetically by brewery across both Blackfriars and St Andrew’s halls, as the increased volume of Norfolk beer would no longer fit in Blackfriars.