Festival season is upon us. Unlike, say, music festivals, beer festivals are hardly mainstream. When you think of beer festivals, you may picture balding men with beer-bellies wearing shorts and socks with sandals swilling beer in some local community hall.
However, today beer festivals and real ale are popular with people of all ages and walks of life. If you look at the sheer number of beer festivals taking place over the year, you will see that their popularity is enormous, with an ever-expanding variety of ales, ciders, and beer types including the recent very popular craft beers.
It’s fair to say that we Brits love our beer, and beer festivals are an important part of British culture.
Beer festivals are not just about beer & Cider, they are a great social event incorporating a fantastic array of quality food, live music, and much more.
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We have compiled a list of Beer Festivals happening across the UK throughout 2018.
May
45th Cambridge Beer Festival
Kidderminster Beer & Cider Festival
19th Kingston Beer & Cider Festival
Rail Ale Festival
Thu 17th May – Sat 19th May
Campbell Drive Barrow Hill
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S43 2PR
Macclesfield Beer Festival
Gwent CAMRA Beer Festival
Friday 11th May – Sunday 13th May
Tredegar House & Country Park
Newport
Newport
NP10 8YW
18th Banbury Beer and Cider Festival
Reading Beer & Cider Fest 2018
20th Kingdom of Fife Real Ale and Cider Festival
13th Bexley Beer Festival
Yapton Beerex
Bandstand Beer Festival
Eastbourne Beer & Cider By The Sea
23rd Newark Beer & Cider Festival
Lincoln Beer Festival
Sheffield Students’ Union Beer and Cider Festival
11th Independent Baldock Beer festival weekend
Angel Annual Beer Festival
Mayfest
Ale & Cider Festival
The Pheasant Inn Beer Festival
The Royal Oak’s Beer Festival
Real Ale Train
On The Farm Beer Festival
13th Annual Isle of Wight Real Ale Festival
Portsmouth Beer Festival 2018
Shirley Beer and Cider Festival 2018
Burton Bridge Inn’s Beer Festival
Red Fox Beer Festival
The Curfew Micropub’s 4th beer festival!
Fri 4th May – Sun 6th May
46A Bridge Street
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Northumberland
TD15 1AQ
June
Salisbury Beerex XXXVIII
Kent and East Sussex Railway Beer Festival
Hitchin Beer & Cider Festival
43rd Wolverhampton Beer & Cider Festival
Doncaster CAMRA’s 27th Beer Festival
Leeds Beer Festival
Thurrock Beer & Cider Festival
6th Belper Goes Green CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival
32nd Stockport Beer and Cider Festival
Beer & Banger Festival
FyneFest 2018
Bromsgrove Beer & Cider Festival 2018
Glasgow Real Ale Festival 2018
Tunbridge Wells Cricket Festival
11th Gibberd Garden Beer Festival
Church Farm Brewery’s Beer & Ale Festival
THE OAST’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY KENT BEER & MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018
Beers & Ciders, Bikes & Cars
July
The Colchester and East Essex Cricket Club Beer and Cider Festival
Beer and Bluegrass Festival 2018
11th Stafford Beer and Cider Festival
South Devon Newton Abbot Sunshine Beer & Cider Festival
Maidenhead Beer & Cider Festival
Thu 26th Jul – Sat 28th Jul
Shoppenhangers Rd
Maidenhead
Windsor and Maidenhead
SL6 2QB
44th Kent Beer Festival
42nd Cotswold Beer Festival
6th Epping Ongar Railway Beer Festival
Beer on the Wye XIV
12th Stratford-upon-Avon Beer & Cider Festival
Craft Drink Festival 2018
August
London Craft Beer Festival 2018
Rescue Rooms Beer Festival
Blackdown Hills Beer & Music Festival 2018
Great British Beer Festival
Fleet Lions Beer Festival 2018
Hope Valley Beer Festivals 2018
Peterborough Beer Festival
Ales By Rails – Dereham Beer Festival & Steam Weekend
September
Lions Beer Festival
Leeds International Beer Festival
Moreton in Marsh Beer Festival
Newquay Beer Festival
The 18th Wedmore Real Ale Festival
Willingham Beer Festival 2018
Abbfest Food, Beer & Music Festival
October
Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival
Falmouth Beer Festival 2018
November
Nether Abbey Hotel Beer Festival 2018
