First time at a British Beer Festival! 🍻
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- Join me for my first time at a UK Hop Festival - this year in Faversham, Kent! As a Canadian living in the UK for the last 6 years, I've actually never been to a Hop Fest but I had a really fun time! Cheers!!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a TH-cam video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
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Yay drunk Alanna is back!
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Does she ever really go away 😆
😂😂 u looked pickled lol
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Alanna + booze = great entertainment !!!
Loved the green headgear ! Thanks for making me smile 👍😀
Thanks so much for watching!
Não é capacete é coroa 🤨
Wow! The hardships you endure for your viewers. I'm truly impressed. 🤣
Né kkkkk, como é o nome dessa fruta na cabeça dela? Na coroa ?😁😁
@@EniscleiFerreira It's hop vine.
É videira de lúpulo.
Way back when I was a child every September when the hops were ready to pick my Dad was always on a 24 hr call out as he was an electrician and would fix the hop dryers if they broke down. He would always come home stinking of hops but would always brink us a string of hops to take to school to put on the nature table,oh what memories 😊
Faversham is a great place to visit, the town is ancient, lovely buildings. The quayside with lots of moored boats, lovely old pubs, a brewery that you can tour and learn all about beer making. Nice shops and cafes.
The best travel vlogs are when Alanna gets the giggles after a few ciders! Glad to see you both out and about at a festival ! Happy travels👍😊
Thanks so much!
Ela estava sozinha, como assim? Vocês dois 🤨🤨
Hahahahahaha... Chaotic, alcohol involved, vlog was great!
Loads of food & drink, what more can you ask for! Never been to a hop festival, glad you had a good day... Loving that crown! 😂👑
🥳 Thanks so much!! 🍻
You just recently missed out on the cider festival at Brogdale Farm in Faversham....that really would have made great viewing, hic!!
A beer in each hand. The very deffinition of a 'balanced diet'. These local festivals are usually a lot of fun. Good to see you are out and about. 😁🥴
Thanks for watching!
Yay! My hometown. Now you've had the full Hop Festival experience, next year you can just pick the pub garden with the best bands and settle in for the day. Usually The Market Inn or The Phoenix Tavern IMHO 🍺
This looked like a lot of fun... after all that's been going on , we all deserve a day like this.
🙏🏻 it was a great afternoon!
@@AdventuresAndNaps You deserved one , thank you for sharing it with us.
Brogdale farm have their cider festival every year being a farm Loads more space to sit, hay bales for comfort tonnes of local cider and music stages.
Best volg ever. As a retired publican I’ve seen that cheesey grin soo many times. (Happy Drunk) 🍺🍺🤣
🥳 thanks so much for watching!!
Seriously surprised you didn't go to the Cider Festival at Brogdale over the August Bank Holiday weekend. That's also on your doorstep. :)
I hadn’t heard of a hop festival before this lol, it was a cool idea to make a video about! It’s fun to learn about a culture or tradition in the country you moved to that a lot of people wouldn’t know about, it made a great video!
Thanks so much!
I absolutely love drunk Alanna! Two drinks down and feeling it? You’re definitely one of mine. 😆
PS: You look so pretty wearing the crown of hops!
I live in Faversham 😃 Only just moved here from a different part of Kent and didn't know the hop festival was even on! I popped into town and was very surprised! It was so packed and the whole town full of merry people enjoying themselves 😂
Back in the early eighties, I worked with someone who when he was a young boy before the war, his whole family went ‘hopping’ in Kent for their summer holidays. It was a big event for poorer families in London. Great video Alana, how was the head the morning after the night before?
In Worcestershire during the 1950's and earlier, families from Birmingham came out to hop farms to pick the hops. For many it was the only time they left the city and treated it like a holiday and earn money by doing the work and camp in primitive conditions.
@@Brian3989 oh that's nice to know
@@Brian3989 what are hops? Vegetable? Is it wheat?
@@re_patel Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants.
They are used to flavour beer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops
@@re_patel hop flowers are used to flavour and preserve ale. Ale with hops is beer.
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I believe that is Morris Dancing 🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦.
Kent was traditionally the hop growing area of England, and whole families would take themselves there for their summer holidays to enjoy the sun and earn some money picking hops in the fields. Many of them were factory workers and presumably did not get paid while their factories were closed for summer break.
Yes, we did get paid during the holidays (vacations). The hop growing in Kent is nowhere as big as it used to be with most oast houses (hop drying houses) being turned into housing. There is are examples of this on the road from Canterbury to Faversham and between Canterbury and Ashford. I watched hop drying in the latter in a school holiday.
Love this video! Hop Festival always reminds me of home. I try to get back for Faversham Hop Festival but missed it this year. Its always good fun. Bands are always local so you get some good some bad. I normally end up at the Market Inn by the Rec, they normally have a stage up and last time I went they had Kent based Soul band Rubber Biscuit who are brilliant if you get a chance to see them. You do look like you got nice and merry which is the way to be!
Tell you a little story about hops....I was once travelling on the train back from Canterbury with some American Tourists adjacent to me, talking about how Faversham is full of hop fields for the local beer and how its famous for it... Then just passing a hop field his wife looks out the window and says "Are they what you're talking about?" and he replied "Nah, they're Grapes!".... Quietly cackling away at myself the other side lol
I'm still here!, great video. Funny to see you a little bit wasted. A hop crown suits you Alanna. That burger made me gagg, like it looked all mouldy. Quite funny and an interesting topic, one of your better videos.
booze, meat on a stick, and a hops crown!! all the things needed for an excellent day out 🍻👑 i'm with ya, where's the food and a seat!!
Great video. Even when pissed your ability to do a good video comes through. Love the chilled out feeling. So keep it up. The dancers are called Morris Dancers and it's big in England with many doing events. Even have national and regional events.
that looked a wonderful town for the hops festival! Ours, used to look like that at regatta time! Down in Devon, it was called Dartmouth! Lots of happy memories down there!
Sitting on a park bench and drinking cider. Very classy ☺️ Great video
You made me want to go to a hops festival. Loved the hops crown. You look like such a happy drunk lol
When I saw the Hop Festival advertised in the local paper I KNEW we would see you there! 😄 I'm glad you had a good time. You looked right at home with your hop crown and I'm sure they helped you sleep!
You can't beat a good traditional morris dance. We have several groups where we live.
And seems so much better after a few pints!!
But what IS it???
@@AdventuresAndNaps It's a secret. Only people who have lived in England for the last 5 generations know. Everyone else is secretly baffled but pretends it's just a bit of harmless fun for the tourists.
@@AdventuresAndNaps Google is your friend.
@@AdventuresAndNaps Possibly a fertility rite so don't get too close!
yay! its faversham, ....the hop fest is the one weekend a year where the town lifts up its pettycoat and kicks its legs in the air. first one since lockdown, so the organisation seemed a little rusty compared to past ones
If there was ever a "This is back to normal life" video, this was it. Thank you Alana!
Glad you liked it!
You may like the Leigh folk festival, on every year, just on the oher side of the river, in Essex
You're 'slightly' drunken intro made me laugh out loud, it was so funny lol. I've always enjoyed your videos, been watching for a few years now. All the best - stu
Alanna taking part in my favourite sport is always a good watch 🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦.
Hop fest, a hang over from when whole families spent the summer hop picking in the Kent Hop Gardens and they had a big party when finished.
Cool!
Yes Londoners would escape the smog and dirt of London for Hop picking in the Kent countryside, during the first half of the twenteth centuary. It was like their holiday and is a part of social history i find fasinating.
Back in the late fifties our family holiday was hop picking in Kent. Whole families vwould spend a week on a hop farm and sleep in a barn on bales of hay
@@jasonsmart3482 My grandfather and great grandfather were Market and Hop Garden owners in Kent along with a London based exotic fruit and veg import company. Unfortunately I never met my grandfather as he died in 1920 aged 40, Spanish Flu on top of having TB, my Nan sold them after his death.
@@tonys1636 How wonderful the stories they could have told could only be imagined. As a Londoner living in Kent I can only imagine the joy people would have felt for their Hop picking adventure.
Should be called 'Adventures & Naps - Three Sheets to the Wind' 😊 The festival looked fun and the centre of Faversham looked very picturesque (my whole experience of Faversham is changing trains there).
Thanks Alanna, great to see another Adventure, & probably a long Nap required after?!
Good to see everyone enjoying themselves. Hop crowns a nice touch! 🙏
Great fun. You may have been totally rat arsed, but you obviously enjoyed yourself. I have never been to Kent so nice to see some of their local traditions. Please do some more of these around different parts of the UK with local festivals/traditions. Maybe even take in a Rugby or football match?
I lived in Kent for 26 years before I went to this for the first time in 2019 😆 even pre covid it was overwhelming with all the crowds! So much fun though! Glad to see it’s all back up and running again 😊
Top tip, never walk in line with the path of a spinning fairground ride - especially at events where people may have tanked up with food and drink before getting on the ride. Was at Nottingham Goose Fair the other year and let's just say you had to be careful where you stepped.
The hop festival looked a lot of fun and you seemed to be having a great time! 😀
Oh noooo! 🤢😂
So many childhood memories of Faversham. I loved the 'hoppy hat'.
You looked like you had a great time there. My cities beer fest in Peterborough , lasts a week! Hundreds of different beers ciders and anything else these days. My friend who lived in Kuwait for 20 years always made it home for it no matter what. Its become a huge event here as its where friends meet up who dont see each other for years and have aa cheeky sip and watch some bands. Theres even a family day
Always love a drunk video. I have never been to a hops festival but now I feel like I should. Food, alcohol & music sounds great to me. Plus if you get drunk enough doesn't matter how good or bad an act is as you won't care. Great vlog Alanna
There should be more Drunk Alanna videos
😂 so true Ash!
If you like festivals then you should come to Hereford next year and go to the beer on the eye festival 7 - 9 July with local and national beers and about 130 different cider's mostly from Hereford home of Cider!
Having a drink like a true Brit. You go girl and enjoy yourself. Did you have a hangover the next day? That’s where a full English breakfast comes in. Love the channel and much respect.
Hiya. Faversham 2023. It's in the diary. And what a great crown. Stay safe. All the best to you.
44 seconds from being published and already 9 comments! 🙂
Way to go, Mrs Fabisham!
Looks like a good day out.
A lot of towns have these types of festivals, depending on what the main crop is.
An excuse for a beer is a good thing
Looked like fun and there's no explaining the Morris dancers.
My father was born in Ramsgate in 1928 and he had old sepia photographs of his grandmother and aunts sitting eating sandwiches in a hop field.. Most of my father's family worked picking hops and apples..
Sooooooo many ciders! 😂😂🤣 Great video Alanna and so nice to see you out 'n about enjoying yourself. 👍
Thanks for watching!
That's was funny
Did I see a green bun?
I hope it tasted better than it looked.
The drinks definitely looked good though.
I think it was a sort of Hop bread. Might have had some rye in it too.
I went hopping in the early 1950s. I was only about 3 to 5 years old, my Mum used to put me in the bin where the hops went to stop me running around. We used to come from SE London.
This is great, you should do more in the future, Alanna. Loving the bed wear too. 🙂
Thank you! Will do!
Kent is famous for its hops. Although granted some people would have expected to see you hopping...
Drinking Alanna..daft grin...pure joy..🤗
That was a lot of fun!
I literally am late to the party, but that was so funny. It looks like you had a ball at the hop ! 😄
Love the law and order opening !
😅Thanks for a fun video Alanna ! 😀
As a matter of interest there are a lot of harvest type festivals in the the Uk in September / October, for instance in Newent near Gloucester, this month is the Onion festival, which is a small village but the whole village is packed, all the pubs are open all day. Another local village is having a bear festival. In May the Wool Sack races are held in Malmesbury. Fun races with a large 4 x 4 ft sack filled with sheared wool fleas on your back. Same with the Cheltenham cheese rolling races down Coopers Hill in May. You have keep your eyes open to find these things and when.
It’s great to see you joining in and enjoying yourself.
Cheers aah kid
The chaotic vlog is testament to having had a good time. Loved the intro Law & Order warning! Adventure bit..tick. Nap bit..tick. Job done.
From the bottom of my heart thank you for your cider drinking all in the name of research, plus the town looks really nice would love to see it without the throngs
Used to go almost every year when I lived in the south of England. Were the Fez Heads performing as they were one of the most entertaining acts
That's what's called a balanced diet - a pint in each hand...😁
You could probably buy half pints, it means you can try more beers without drinking so much. BTW you saw some Morris Dancing.
Faversham looked great, never been there, and the Hop Festival looked like it was a lot of fun. The best bit, of course, was a slightly tipsy Alanna 😂 brilliant!
Thanks so so much for watching!
Alanna + alcohol = Part feisty, part dopey, all fun. The pyjamas are rather nifty. Thanks for another fun video.
Awesome gal glad ya got out kid ,Andy from Morecambe respect as loads of music festivals round here up northwest xx 😘
2 seconds in, I fell off my chair laughing.
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Sounds like they were running "Open Mic" sessions which can lead to a very eclectic mix of sounds, which always sounds better after the 5th pint and you join in. Where I live (Essex) we have Beer & Sausage festivals quite often, only about an hours drive from you.
Agree with everyone, a drunk Alanna video is a must see 😂
What a fantastic video, and bonus points for wonderful Jim Jams with leopards on. Loved seeing the festival, you can well and truly out drink me.
Looks to me a great festival, Alanna! Plenty of Ziderrrs to choose from! :) Faversham too far for me but we have great festivals too here in Bristol like Bristol Harbourside Festival, International Baloon Fiesta, St Pauls Carnival, craft beer festival too name but a few!
😁 Astonishing pyjamas 🤩🤗
Did you go on Saturday? Sunday was still busy but not quite so crowded. Good to have it back.
One of the terms that used to be quite regional, was the way kids would refer to playing truant from school - 'bunking off', 'skiving', 'wagging it' and more. In London - especially South and East London, it would be referred to as 'hopping it'.
It was a term that came from the tradition of poorer families heading to Kent, where they would combine hop picking with a family 'holiday'. - a couple of weeks away from the smoke and bustle, families staying on farms, sleeping in barns or tents. Kids getting to see their first cow etc. - a couple of weeks that families really looked forward to, and some old folk still remember fondly. - very cute outfit, by the way
Bloody brilliant, Alanna...... Super stuff!!!!!!!
I love your videos, Alanna, and in this one you had me hooked with the opening text. 😄
Thanks so much for watching!
Fav might have to change the name of the Hop fest soon because hardly any hops are grown in kent anymore . Hops were ubiquitous in kent once - hence the plethora of oast houses for drying hops . There is alao a tree museum in faversham called Brogdale .. Along with hops kent lost many of its traditional apple , pear , and cherry orchards . They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see them - Big Yelliw Taxi by joni Mitchell. ' Give me spots in apples but leave me the birds and the bees 🙂✌️🐝🐦
So nice to see Alanna mashed out her brains again I hope you don’t have a beautiful headache 🤕 in the morning
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Hey Alanna, if you're going to go to these cute British country festivals, there is a classic British film you should probably watch - The Wicker Man - Just saying. :D
I thought it was a documentary!
Some of those Morris Dancers in the video looked like they were waiting for an "outsider" to show up.
Wait...
@@Escapee5931 I'm wondering if nobody has told her ya know? I dont think they have. Those Morris dancers ...that's deep Pagan ritual from thousands of years ago right there - nobody stops to ask what the bells and sticks and handkerchiefs are for. Ya dont mess with these people.
You were well soused in that video. But funny and interesting too. Keep up the good work Alanna x
Thank you! 😃
Hiya Alanna (said quietly). I "can nad a" drunk that much myself. OK, probably could. I'm glad that you got so much cider inside 'er. I noticed the rehydration bottle in the corner, I recommend tomato juice with a bit of the old Lea and Perrin's for the morning, thank you for keeping us entertained. 😁👍
It would appear that Faversham was established as a settlement before the Roman conquest. However, the name 'Faversham' is of Old English origin, meaning "the metal-worker's village".
Funny watching you drunkenly walking round with those two large pint pots , and carrying some cider aswell !!!
I got some 'Midsommar vibes' .....even so it looks like you had a blast - great video!
Ha, great video, cheeky face. You allways make me smile
I remember you saying a while back you'd like to visit Cambridge. If you liked that hop fest, I can recommend Cambridge's beer festival in May. If you go to an afternoon session entry is free and it's not too crowded, it's on a field and there are at least some tables and chairs provided. They do beer, cider and wine, plus there's a great cheese counter and a range of other food. You could easily do a day at that and a day sightseeing and punting.
Pint in both hands, you're one of us now Allana 😘
I forgot that fruit and hops were a big Kent thing - hops for brewing. At harvest time, poorer Londoners used to come out for employment as casual labourers and for a working holiday.
H E Bates wrote about it - "The Darling Buds of May", "A Breath of French Air", "When the Green Woods Laugh", "Oh! To Be in England" and "A Little of What You Fancy" and there have been several TV adaptations.
Ya did well for multiple pints, Alanna ...no longer a lightweight 🥴 (I feel that YT has trained you well, young Padawan)
Scary crowds 😨
Bless you for trying to film while drinking...... And then showing us your PJ`s.... Looked like great fun though.... Great vid Alanna :-)) xxx
Hi Alanna,the saying goes,do NOT mix your drinks🍺🍺🧉🧉🧉🍾well…you blew that…good for you,time to enjoy yourself.I love it when you let you slack out,party .on.cheers Roly 🇬🇧.
That was a bit different. Cherry cider sounds delicious.
Love the chaotic videos.
More please with or without alcohol assistance 😄
Lovely Alanna, looks and sounds like you had a great time😵💫😯🫣🥴😂😂🫶🏽
Another one of *those* videos, with an added splash of festival!
I went to a beer festival once. I don't remember it, so it must have been pretty good.
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Aww my little town!!
So nice to see you out and about, love the crown
Thanks so much!
Nice one,loved it,tipsy Alanna is back,so pleased you had a great time.Looks a nice place,plenty of old pubs to visit.
Thanks so much!