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 2010 - 3rd, 4th & 5th June 2010. Southampton Guildhall

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.

• Thurs 01/04/2010 – Mon 05/04/2010	Platform Tavern, Southampton Town Quay, SO14 2NY (023 8033 7232). Easter Blues & Cider Festival from Thur 1st to Mon 5th April. At least 10 different ciders & perries available with live music every day/night: Thur 1st (eve) Big Joe Louis; Fri 2nd (eve) Tim Paynes Platform Posse; Sat 3rd (aft) Morris Dancing; Sat 3rd (eve) Pete G & the Magnetones; Sun 4th (aft) Jazz Gitanes; Sun 4th (eve) The Mutter Slater Band; Mon 5th (aft) TBA. Plus we expect their usual range of ales as well.
• Fri 02/04/2010 – Mon 05/04/2010	Park Inn, Southampton 37 Carlisle Road, Shirley, Southampton, SO16 4FN. The Park Inn's Second Real Ale Festival. Over 20 real ales and ciders; live music; barbecue; quiz night on Sunday. Good Friday to Easter Monday or when the beers run out.
• 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.
• Fri 23/10/2010 – Sun 25/10/2010	Red Shoot Inn Red Shoot Inn, Tom's Lane, Linwood, New Forest BH24 3QT (OS: SU188094) Phone 01425 475792 . A selection of 35 real ales and 7 traditional ciders. We would expect that to include 3 beers brewed at the pub - Toms Tipple, New Forest Gold and Muddy Boot (a dark mild).
• Fri 30/04/2010 – Sat 01/05/2010	Waterloo Arms Beer Festival 101 Waterloo Road, Freemantle, Southampton, SO15 3BS More details nearer the time.
• 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.