Tickets for Eaglesham Beer Fest sell out within hours of going on sale

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Tickets for this year's Eaglesham Beer Festival have sold out – just hours after going on sale.And festival organisers say they have been left “flabbergasted” by the uptake.Tickets for the event went on sale at 9am last Friday (February 23) following an in-person sales event for locals the previous week.Uptake for that was so great that organiser Fraser Wilson was confident online tickets sales would "go well" in the first week – but he admits he was overwhelmed at just how quickly he was forced to close the ticket office.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android He told Lanarkshire Live: “I'm pretty speechless to be honest. “I was still recovering from just how successful our local ticket sales event had been on February 15.

We had 180 sales that night, amounting to over 1200 tickets sold.“It was a great sight for me as organiser, because people were queued out of the local pub waiting to get their tickets – the first 45 minutes was just constant.“So to follow that up by selling out just hours after putting the other half of tickets on sale last Friday, is almost unbelievable.“Only problem now is, my phone won't stop going with people asking for a favour!”A staple in the local social calendar, the event is now a marquee date in the Scottish beer community calendar also, attracting people from near and