Beer Festivals

Southern Hampshire CAMRA currently organises and runs one beer festival each year. Southampton Beer Festival is held at Southampton Guildhall in June.

All the staff at our beer festivals are volunteers. Many members of Southern Hampshire CAMRA also volunteer their time to work at the Great British Beer Festival each year.

Some of our aims in running beer festivals are:

To serve customers quality cask conditioned real ale.
To promote real ale to the local community, therefore increasing its popularity.
To promote membership of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale.

CAMRA Beer Festivals

If you'd like us to email you and let you know when we're holding beer festivals then join our "beerfests" mailing list and keep you informed!

Southampton Beer Festival 2008 - 5th, 6th & 7th June 2008

Non-CAMRA Beer Festivals

Many beer festivals take place in our branch area, or nearby, that are not CAMRA beer festivals. Despite being unable to endorse these events, we believe that any beer festival that sells quality cask-conditioned real ales should be supported (see you there!). The information given here is purely for the benefit of readers, and is accurate to the best of our knowledge.

• Thur 03/07/2008 – Mon 07/07/2008	Old Gaol House, Winchester Old Gaol House, Jewry St., Winchester, SO23 8RZ. To coincide with Winchester Hat Fair, a beer festival with some local brews including Ringwood Old Thumper & Boondoggle; Triple fff Gaol House Rock (4.2% special brew), Pressed Rat & Warthog, Halljeluja & Stairway to Heaven; Itchen Valley Pure Gold, Winchester Ale, Hampshire Tiger & Wykeham; Hogsback Summer Ale, Hopgarden Gold & OTT; Hampshshire Pride of Romsey, King Alfred's & Ankle Biter.
• Fri 11/07/2008 – Sun 13/07/2008	New Forest Inn, Emery Down, Lyndhurst SO43 7DY A great selection of 30+ real ales & ciders. BBQ & pig roast. Live music. More details tba.
• Sat 19/07/2008 – Sun 20/07/2008	Wheatsheaf, 1 East Street, Tichfield, PO14 4AD No details, other than that this pub is having a beer festival.
• Fri 22/08/2008 – Sat 23/08/2008	Portsmouth Beer Festival, Portmouth Guildhall, PO1 2AB Three sessions, Friday evening, Saturday lunchtime & Saturday evening. Tickets £10 including souvenir glass, programme & some beer tokens. More details on their website
• Fri 22/08/2008 – Mon 25/08/2008	Flower Pots, Cheriton. SO24 0QQ All the usual features are planned including the curry tent.
• Fri 12/09/2008 – Sun 14/09/2008	Cuckoo Beer Festival Cuckoo Inn, Hamptworth, Wiltshire, SP5 2DU. Will feature about 50 beers. Contact Lizzie Payton on 01794 390868 for further details
• September	The Royal Oak, Fritham will not be holding its usual late summer beer festival. They hope to have one next spring.

If you know of any more non-CAMRA beer festivals in our branch area then please email the details to us.

This page was last updated on 03 July 2008 at 14:58