Any beer fans on the forum should get themselves down to Canterbury this weekend for the Canterbury Food & Drink Festival - which also happens to be the launch of the first ever Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight.
I sampled Eddie Gadd's Green Hop Ale at Broadstairs Food Festival last year and it was pretty special. This year, just about every independent brewery in Kent is getting involved by making their own green hop beers - I've heard there will be 22 beers on offer, covering a wide range of styles up to and including an Imperial Stout. The common factor is that they're all made using freshly picked Kentish hops.
Think of it as a British take on Beaujolais Nouveau. Only with fine beer instead of crap wine.
http://kentgreenhopbeer.com/d.
