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.

• 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	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).
• Fri 22/08/2008 – Mon 25/08/2008	Flower Pots, Cheriton. SO24 0QQ All the usual features are planned including the curry tent.
• 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.
• 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.

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 21 August 2008 at 10:05