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!
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.
• 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
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• Fri 22/08/2008
– Mon 25/08/2008 |
The Compass Inn, Winsor, SO40 2HE
20 real ales, barbecue and live music each day (music performance times unknown - Fri: Shebeen, Sat: The Reptiles, Sun: Twin Air Bags).
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• Fri 22/08/2008
– Mon 25/08/2008 |
Flower Pots, Cheriton. SO24 0QQ
All the usual features are planned including the curry tent.
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| • September |
Fishers Pond 'Festival of Firsts'
The Fisher's Pond, Main Road, Fishers Pond, Eastleigh, SO50 7HG.
A different form of beer festival with one special festival ale each week. See here for more details. |
• Thurs 11/09/2008
– Sun 14/09/2008 |
Cuckoo Beer Festival
Cuckoo Inn, Hamptworth, Wiltshire, SP5 2DU. Will feature about 50 beers. Live music throughout the festival. Home made hot & cold
food everyday plus a hog roast on Saturday pm. Contact Lizzie Payton on 01794
390868 for further details |
• Sat 13/09/2008
– Sun 14/09/2008 |
Colden Common Beer Festival
Community Centre, St. Vigor Way, Colden Common, Hampshire SO50 7HH
Saturday – Two sessions,
2pm to 5pm and 7pm to 11.30pm.
Admission £8.00 including glass and first drink, £2 discount for CAMRA members. Afternoon admission covers both sessions.
At least 20 real ales & ciders from local brewers, & a barbecue in the Garden.
Sunday is a 'Family Fun Afternoon' 2pm to 5.30pm, but there will still be some beer. Various entrance charges. See
this poster for more details, or contact 02380 692409 or
info@coldencommoncc.co.uk.
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• Sat 13/09/2008
– Sun 14/09/2008 |
Swan Inn, Woolston
219 Portsmouth Road, Woolston, Southampton SO19 9BG (Close to Sholing Sation & arguably in Sholing)
Hasn't been renown for beer in the past but apparently good now. Sorry, we know nothing more than the dates about this one. |
| • September |
The Royal Oak, Fritham will not be holding its usual late summer beer festival. They hope to have one next spring. |
| • Sat 11/10/2008 |
Bursledon Beer Festival
Community Centre, Portsmouth Road, Lowford SO31 8ES
12 - 3pm / £2 entry and 6 - 11pm / £5 entry. There will be 8 real ales and 3 ciders, food and a normal bar. Acoustic music lunch time and evening music by Andy Foster. Tickets can be brought from Nigels Hairdressers, Lowford - 02380 449938 or Andy Madsen 07769695697. As tickets are limited it would be advisable to buy them beforehand. The beer fest will be run by Andy and Ceri Madsen ex of the Waterloo and Park Inn. |
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If you know of any more non-CAMRA beer festivals in our branch area then please
email the details to us.
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