The CAMRA Bristol Beer Festival will return to the city next month for the first time since 2019. It will be the 23rd edition of the event featuring almost 100 carefully selected beers, ciders and perries.
Organised by volunteer members of CAMRA's (the Campaign for Real Ale) Bristol branch, this year's festival will be held at City Hall on College Green running from Thursday, November 17 to Sunday, November 20. There will be no Friday lunchtime session for this year's festival, but organisers have added a Sunday afternoon slot.
Bristol & District Branch Chairman Richard Brooks said: “It is very exciting to be able to announce that the CAMRA Bristol Beer Festival is back! The 2020 Bristol Beer Festival had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 and since then our usual venue of Brunel’s Old Station at Temple Meads has remained closed.
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"Over the last couple of years many people have asked me when the Bristol Beer Festival will return. Once COVID-19 restrictions were sufficiently relaxed we began searching for a venue to host our beer festival and we have ended up back at our original home of the Council House (now City Hall) on College Green, Bristol."
The festival is normally held in March and was unable to go ahead in recent years due to the pandemic. Mr Brooks said there was such enthusiasm among volunteers to get on and hold a beer festival this year that it is going ahead across the four days this November.
"As we already have thousands of glasses and other items in storage that were made for the cancelled 2020 festival, it seems very wasteful to destroy them and get new ones made. So for this 2022 festival we are taking the more environmentally responsible approach of using some of the 2020 branded items," he added.
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The festival always has a fun and friendly atmosphere and key to the success of the event is that it is organised and run by unpaid CAMRA volunteers who take part because they are beer and cider enthusiasts that want the event to be a great success for everyone that attends.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday's evening sessions will be from 6.30pm until 11pm. Saturday will have an additional afternoon session from 11.30am - 4pm while Sunday's session will be between 12pm and 5pm.
Tickets for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday sessions cost £14 and tickets for the new Sunday afternoon session cost £11. All tickets include £5 worth of beer festival tokens, which customers will receive on entry enabling them to go straight to the bar. Also included are a festival programme and a commemorative half pint glass, marked for third and half-pint measures.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online. Information about the event (including updates on tickets and the beer and cider orders once they are available) can be found at www.camrabristol.org.uk.
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