I went to the Leeds Beer Festival 2005 in Pudsey on Thursday and Friday, and tried as many of the beers as possible. There were plenty to choose from.
I particularly liked some of the dark beers. My favourite would probably be Bullmastiff Welsh Black, a very fruity (blackcurrent perhaps) double stout. There seemed to be a lot of Welsh beers in general. The E&S 1872 Porter was also very nice.
There was music on Thursday provided by the Yorkshire Post Jazz quartet. There was some sort of rock band on the Friday.
All in all it was a good way to celebrate no longer working for GBdirect :-)

