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.

   Sat 06/02/2010 Alton Winter Beer Festival, Alton Maltings Centre
The 6th Alton Winter Beer Festival will take place on Saturday 6th February 2010 at Alton Maltings Centre, Maltings Close, Alton. As usual, there will be midday and evening sessions and buying tickets (£7) in advance is essential as they always sell-out. All details are on www.altonbeerfestival.co.uk
Alton Winter & Summer beer festivals have raised £60,000 for charities since 2002.
   Sat 17/04/2010 Wickham Spring Beer Festival, The Wickham Centre, Wickham, Nr. Fareham
Real Ales, Cider, Live Music and barbecue. Wickham Beer Festival is an independently run charity festival and the money raised from it goes towards local organisations and charities. All details are on http://www.wickhambeerfestival.co.uk/
Since it's humble beginnings back in Autumn 2008, this festival has raised over £3000 for charity and is now organizing two festivals per year.
   Sat 19/06/2010
      
King's Somborne Beer & Music Festival
King's Somborne (on A3057 6 miles N of Romsey)
3pm – 11pm in the village of King's Somborne. Around 10 real ales (run by the Crown Inn) and a full bar plus good food and live music and other entertainment such as morris dancers etc. during the day. We hope to have more details nearer the day.
   Thu 16/09/2010
      – Sat 18/09/2010
Great American Beer Festival 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA.
You may well ask what we are doing advertising an American beer festival. The answer is that Mike, a nearby resident of Denver who was on holiday in England last year, volunteered to work at our Southampton Beer Festival 2009 and was much taken with our hospitality. In return, he's very kindly offering to host anyone who wishes to join him in Denver for the "Great American Beer Festival" on 16 –18 September 2010 (Tickets go on sale in June).
Mike's full offering can be found on our forum: http://www.shantscamra.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=192
(You'll need to register and/or log in to view this but the registration process is easy and then you can participate in of all the forum which includes a beer festivals section).

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