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.
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• Sat 19/06/2010
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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).
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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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