Skegness
Batemans Brewery Visitors Centre
News was announced of a beer festival being held at Batemans Brewery in the nearby town of Wainfleet, so Skegness News on Video went to have a closer look-strictly to bring you footage, you must understand!
We were greeted by a friendly member of staff who told us a little of the history of Batemans Brewery. It was founded in 1884, in Wainfleet, by Mr George Bateman. The establishment is currently run by the third and fourth Bateman generations, Mr George Bateman and Mr Stuart Bateman.
The member of staff told us there was lots to do at the Visitors Centre-Victorian pub games, excellent entertainment and food, tours of the brewery, oh! and seventeen different types of beer to try!
-to name but a few.
We went straight to the bar (now don't go jumping to conclusions!) to find the barmaid filling a couple of steins for the buskers.
left: Dr.Busker tells us they were just about to strike up. Our luck was in! He added that some of the songs they play are topical
and humorus. They sung an adapted Lily the Pink by Scaffold - the 'medicinal compound' being Viagra!
We wandered around the Victorian Brewery and found a trail of Victorian beer making exhibits complete with life-size manaquins.
This one startled us a little - walk passed the display and it magically begins to animate!
You'll see it in the video.
This is a manaquin of the Victorian gardener tending to the hops garden.
There's even a mummified Egyptian Brewer
More entertainment from Dr Busker
This strange looking instrument (right) is called a Menosa, after the man that invented it. It works rather like a tambourine, but having beer caps making the jingles.
The entertainment is not confined to indoors!
The are outdoor pub games and a fine display of Victorian brewing machinery.
Portrait of Henry Bateman, the founder's son
