Beer Festivals

Picture of the Pembury Tavern, Hackney - a beer festival

Beer Festival at the Pembury Tavern, Hackney
The Pembury Tavern holds three beer festivals each year when the already large selection of beers is swelled by the addition of a couple more racks of casks.

The pages in this section list all the upcoming beer festivals that I know about. I’ve gleaned the information from a variety of sources – Twitter, CAMRA, emails and trade papers.

Monthly Beer Festival Lists

Due to the size of the page I've had to split the listings on a monthly basis. Use these links to visit the pages for individual months.

Have I Missed Any?

If you know of a beer festival that’s not listed here perhaps you could let me know using the Add a Beer Festival page and I’ll include it for everyone’s benefit. Just make a comment on this page or tweet me at @goodbeergoodpub. The date, location and link to a website (if there is one) would be useful but feel free to tell us more.

Volunteering at a Beer Festival

Organising and running a beer festival can be a substantial amount of work. Understanding how much beer to order and making sure it arrives at the right time to the right place are not easy tasks. Setting up the cask racks and the serving counters can take a while too.

Once the festival is underway many festivals need staff to work on the bars. You don’t always need to have experience to do this – although there’s usually a bit of training involved, and it can be great fun. And helpers may be rewarded by a couple of free drinks or reduced price tickets for another session.

Of course, after the festival closes there is the task of dismantling the racks etc, removing the casks and returning the venue to its usual state.

All these jobs require bodies so if you fancy getting involved in a local beer festival why not contact the organisers and ask if they need help. Often they’ll be really grateful for your interest.


Author: The Beeralist | Permalink | 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Beer Festivals”

From: Rick Wright on June 28th, 2011 at 8:07 pm

The Grape & Grain Autumn Festival
7-10th Oct 2011
open Midday – Midnight Fri & Sat
Midday – 10.30 Sun
Midday – - 11pm Mon
Food available, live music and 60 ales and ciders from the best micro’s in the UK.
Free entry, discounts for Camra members on ale & food

The Grape & Grain
2 Anerley Hill
Crystal Palace
SE19 2AA
TEL 0208 778 4109

From: The Beeralist on June 29th, 2011 at 5:45 am

Thanks for the notification.

From: Rick Wright on August 24th, 2011 at 9:15 pm

The Autumn Beer Festival is

7th – 10th October 2011

After the huge success of our last festival we shall have at least 60 ales and ciders.

Focusing once again on the very best Micro breweries across the UK.

Provisional List Below

Further updates will follow nearer the time.

Abbeydale Absolution 5.3%

Acorn Gorlovka Imperial Stout 6%

Ascot Ales Anastasia’s Exile Stout 5%

Bathams Best Bitter 4.3%

Beerengine Piston Bitter 4.3%

Beowulf Finns Hall Porter 4.7%

Blackfriars Mild 3.4%

Brewsters Hophead 3.6%

Burton Bridge Burton Porter 4.5%

Butts Traditional 4%

Cairngorm Black Gold 4.4%

Castle Rock Screech Owl 5.5%

Country Life Golden Pig 4.7%

Crouch vale Amarillo 5%

Dark Star Espresso 4.2%

Davises Nip 7.3%

Elgoods Black Dog Mild 3.6%

Elland 1872 Porter 6.5%

Enville Nailmaker Mild 4%

Fyne Jarl 3.8%

H B Clarke No Angel 4%

Highland Scapa Special 4.2%

Hogsback England’s Pride 4.2%

Hopback Taiphoon 4.2%

Goddards Ale of Wight 3.7%

Kelham Island Pride of Sheffield 4%

Leeds Midnight Bell 4.8%

Loddon Gravesend Shrimpers 4.1%

Marston Moor Fairfax Special 4.2%

Milk St Gulp 3.5%

Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde Mild 3,7%

Moorhouses Blonde Witch 4.5%

Mordue Radgie Gadgie 4.8%

North Yorkshire Priors Ale 3.6%

Oakham Citra 4%

Orkney Red MacGregor 4%

Ossett Excelsior 5.2%

Otley O2 4.2%

RCH PG Steam 3.9%

Rudgate Ruby Mild 4.4%

Saltaire Rye Smile 3.8%

Skinners Figgy’s Brew 4.5%

Springhead Newark Castle Brown 5%

Triple fff Alton’s Pride 3.8%

Tring Ridgeway 4%

Westerham Rick’s Birthday Bitter 4%

Whistable Pearl of Kent 4.5%

Wold Top Bitter 3.7%

Wolf Granny wouldn’t like it 4.8%

York Centurians Ghost ale 5.4%

Yorkshire Dales Leyburn Shawl 3.8%

CIDERS

Westons 1st Quality 5%

Millwhites Rum Cask cider 7.3%

Black Dragon 7.2%

Two Trees Perry 4.5%

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