Local Beer Festivals

Following are details of beery events in the Yorkshire area and a bit beyond, sometimes. Please note, not all of these are CAMRA-organised events, but village hall and pub festivals selling Real Ale deserve our support. Those which are CAMRA organised and run are shown in bold.

September

September 11th (Sat)
Bramham Beer Festival
Village Hall, Bramham
20 Yorkshire beers

September 9th to 11th (Thurs – Sat)
2010 Hull & East Yorkshire Real Ale & Cider Festival
Mortimer Suite, Hull City Hall (Paragon Street entrance)
www.hullcamra.org.uk
80 beers and nearly 30 ciders

September 16th – 19th (Thu – Sun)
The Navigation Beer Festival
Station Road, Mirfield, WF14 8NL

September 16th – 19th  (Thurs–Sat)
2nd York Outdoor Beer Festival
York Knavesmire (junction of Tadcaster Road and Knavesmire Road) YO24 1DJ
www.yorkbeerfestival.org.uk
Up to 250 beers, 50 ciders, wine, food, music – in tents

September 17th to 18th  (Fri-Sat)
Saltaire Brewery
County Works, Dockfield Road, Shipley, BD17 7AR
www.saltairebrewery.co.uk/html/events.html
Tickets required for Friday evening session, pay on door Saturday

September 24th to 26th (Thurs-Sat)
22nd Keighley Beer Festival
Victoria Hall, Bradford Road, BD21 3JN
www.keighleyandcravencamra.org.uk
75+ beers, cider, perry and bottled beers

September 30th to 2nd October (Thurs–Sat)
36th Steel City Beer and Cider Festival
Montague Street, off Cemetery Road, Sheffield
www.sheffieldcamra.org.uk/beerfestival.htm
100 beers, cider and perry

October

October 2nd (Sat)
Barwick Beer Festival
Barwick-in-Elmet Village Hall Chapel Lane Barwick-in-Elmet Leeds
12 different Cask ales starting at noon

October 9th (Sat)
East Keswick Beer Festival
Village Hall, School Lane, East Keswick, LS17 9DA
www.eastkeswick.org.uk/content/view/67/37/
Good local beer, food and music

October 8th to 10th (Fri – Sun)
Triangle Cricket Club Beer Festival
Grassy Bottom, Stansfield Mill Lane, Triangle, Sowerby Bridge. HX6 3NA.
Telephone 01422 839784
Selection of local and regional beers and cider

October 14th to 16th (Thurs–Sat)
Huddersfield Oktoberfest Beer and Cider Festival
Sikh Leisure Centre, Apna Avenue, Prospect Street, Springwood, Huddersfield, HD1 2NX
http://huddscamra.org.uk/2010/08/13/huddersfield-oktoberfest-thu-14th-sat-16th-october-2010/
Note new venue is only 5 minutes from bus and train station
80+ local and regional beers, 10 ciders

October 21st – 24th (Thurs-Sun)
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Beer and Music Festival
Oxenhope Station, Keighley station and trains in between
www.kwvr.co.uk/events/beer/beerweekend.htm
Real ale on steam trains and 140 beers at Oxenhope

October 28th to 30th (Thurs-Sat)
SIBA Great Northern Beer Fest
Gran Room, Palace Hotel, Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 1AA
www.northmanchestercamra.org.uk/beerex1.htm
Up to 48 handpull beers from a selection of 300 northern beers

COMING SOON

October – North Oktoberfest, JD Wetherspoons

November – Otley, Wakefield, Barnsley

If you know of a real ale event in or around West Yorkshire please contact us, listing is free.

Click on the links for more information on the National Winter Ales Festival in January, the Great British Beer Festival in August and CAMRA Beer Festivals throughout the year.

Leeds CAMRA Beer, Cider and Perry Festival 2010

Please see below for a brief summary of what happened at the Leeds CAMRA Beer Cider and Perry Festival 2010, the festival was run in association with the Yorkshire Evening Post. This year we had a seaside theme, which proved very good for publicity and had many photographs taken. In keeping with the theme we had beers named after the attractions of the beach as well as beers on offer from several coastal breweries. Sponsors included Leeds Brewery, Market Town Taverns, North and Old Bear Brewery.

Award winners
From votes received by the festival-goers.
Beer of the Festival
1st WharfeBank Camfell Flame
Mild of the Festival
1st Fox Beer Company Clarendon Dark Mild
Cider of The Festival
No award given as insufficient votes received.

Attendance
Thursday AM 271 (122 members)
Thursday PM 773 (214 members)
Friday AM 611 (278 members)
Friday PM 961 (253 members)
Saturday AM 603 (221 members)
Saturday PM 516 (  68 members)
Total 3735 (1156, 31% members)

Over 50 new members were signed up, consolidating Leeds position as one of the biggest branches in Yorkshire.
427 members took advantage of the 15 minutes advance opening.
Over 60 students took up the offer of free entry on Thursday evening.
The attendance this year was above the average at Pudsey Civic Hall, with record attendances on both Thursday evening and Friday lunch. The total number of customers over the last 17 years is 57,096.

Other facts
Just under 200 different cask conditioned beers were on offer from the United Kingdom including local beers.
The ever popular mild trail was undertaken by loads of drinkers, with 24 to choose from this was one of the biggest selections ever.
Tasting panels sat to decide the Yorkshire and North East representatives in the Champion Beer of Britain in the Mild and Speciality categories.
The popularity of cider continues with our biggest order of cider and perry to date, yet still there wasn’t enough to go around.
The global beer bar had some fantastic beers including two with local grown fruit.

Dates for the next festival are Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th March 2011.

FOR MORE INFO visit www.leedsbeerfestival.co.uk