Beer Festivals

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

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 2009 - 28th, 29th & 30th May 2009

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 16/07/2009 – Sun 19/07/2009	The Cricketers, Carlton Place, Southampton SO15 2DX The Cricketers 3rd Annual Beer & Sausage Festival — Beers from 10 different breweries and Speciality sausages from Uptons of Bassett. www.cricketerssouthampton.com
• Sat 25/07/2009	Prince of Wales, Shirrell Heath High Street, Shirrell Heath, SO32 2JN. Beer Festival & Fete - 11am to 11pm. No further details yet, keep an eye on their website.
• Fri 04/09/2009 – Sun 06/09/2009	Ale at Amberley Beer Festival Amberley, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9LT At Amberly Working Museum Friday & Saturday evening 6 - 11pm, Also on Saturday & Sunday daytime 11am - 5.30pm as part of the ' Food, ale & craft festival '. More info when available on their website — look under Special Events, September.
• Sat 12/09/2009 – Sun 13/09/2009	Colden Common Beer Festival Community Centre, St. Vigor Way, Colden Common, Hampshire SO50 7HH Saturday – 2pm to 11.30pm. Admission £8.00 including glass and first drink, £2 discount for CAMRA members. At least 20 real ales & ciders from local brewers, a barbecue in the Garden, and music from 'Under Cover'. 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 via their website www.coldencommoncc.co.uk.

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 2009 at 08:44