The Boar’s Head Beer Festival, 2010

Posted on 05. Sep, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Boar’s Head is a freehouse located a short walk from Pontyclun railway station. It won Mid-Glamorgan CAMRA pub of the year in 2009 and is featured in the Good Beer Guide.

The beer festival was held on September 3rd and 4th, 2010.

Swansea Bay Beer Festival, 2010

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Swansea Bay Beer Festival is an annual festival that takes places every August Bank Holiday. Featuring over 120 ales, ciders and perries from Wales and the rest of the UK, the festival is the second largest in Wales.

Great British Beer Festival 2010,

Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

Every August, beer fans from all over the UK and beyond descend upon London for the 5 day long Great British Beer Festival. The festival is the largest in the UK and features a huge range real ales, ciders, perries and international beers.

Worcester Beer Festival, 2010

Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The 11th Annual Worcester Beer Festival took place at Worcester racecourse on the weekend of August 12th-14th, 2010.

Approximately 11,000 ale, cider and perry fans passed through the gates on during the 3 day event with 5,500 visiting on the rainy Friday.

Otley Golden Ale Beer Festival, 2010

Posted on 18. Jul, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Otley Golden Ale Beer Festival featured over 20 golden ales from a variety of breweries around the UK including Thornbridge, Saltaire, Otter, Dark Star and Crouch Vale.

As with other Otley beer festivals, the Golden Ale festival proved to be very popular and all guest ales were sold out by the second day.

Beer on the Wye VI

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

Beer on the Wye is an annual beer festival held on the banks of the River Wye in Hereford.

Now in it’s sixth year, the popular festival features well over 100 beers, 70 ciders from Herefordshire and a well stocked foreign bottled beer bar.

Sebastopol Beer Festival, Sebastopol

Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Sebastopol Beer Festival is held every year at the Sebastopol Social Club in south Wales. The venue is an award-winning social club just south of Pontypool.

Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, Cardiff

Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival is an annual beer festival held every summer in Cardiff, Wales. The festival runs for 3 days and features over 150 different real ales, a large variety of ciders and perries as well as a large selection of German beers.

The First All Otley Beer Festival, Pontypridd

Posted on 16. May, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

In May 2010, the Bunch of Grapes in Pontypridd held the first all Otley Brewery beer festival. They served a total of 18 different Otley beers.

18th Annual Maltings Beer Festival, Newton Abbot

Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals

The Maltings Beer Festival is now in its 18th year and is organised by the South West branch of SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers). It is held at Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot on the south coast of England and for two weeks, a working malting floor is closed so that one of the biggest beer festivals in the UK can take place.