Visitors to our Dulwich Beer & Cider Festival in May this year voted Mount St Bernard Tynt Meadow as Beer of the Festival.

Only a limited amount of the cask version is produced each year, mainly for supply to beer festivals within a c40 mile radius of the Leicestershire-based brewery.

It was therefore a rare sight for it to be available at our Dulwich festival and involved us collecting the cask from the brewery.

In August one of our branch committee members, Mike Allen, visited the brewery at the beautiful Mount St Bernard Abbey and presented them with a beer of the festival award.

The brewery were delighted to receive the certificate as it was the first such award they had ever received from a London festival.