NORMALLY visiting a graveyard is a pretty sobering experience. But that wasn't the case when Sheffield CAMRA staged its Steel City Beer Festival next door to the General Cemetery.
In fact, the drinking reached monumental proportions!
"It was the first time we've held it in a beer tent and we drank it dry," says CAMRA spokesman Andrew Cullen.
Some 2,400 people turned up to the event in Cemetery Park – 700 more than expected.
At the busiest session on Friday night, beer was being served at the rate of 50 gallons per hour and the Saturday daytime session was more popular than usual.
Acorn and Abbeydale Brewery rushed more beer to the festival on Saturday afternoon but organisers had to close the gates at 8.30pm.
They decided there was only enough beer left for those already in the venue.
Photographer Roger Nadal caught some of the drinkers having a reflective moment next to one of the graveyard tombstones.
The festival featured 96 real ales, 24 ciders and perries, plus bottled continental beers and a selection of fruit wines.
The last pint in the last barrel was pulled as time was called at 11pm on Saturday.
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