Bath Beer Festival
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Bath Beer Festival is an annual beer festival
held in the city of Bath, England
.
The festival offers opportunities to taste over 85 real ales
, along with a range of traditional cider
and Belgian beers.
The 30th anniversary festival was held on two nights beginning 19 October 2007 at The Pavilion.
10,000 pints were served at the event.
Local brewery Abbey Ales used the event to launch a new beer, Bellringer Maximus.
The 2011 festival is the first under new sponsor, The Somerset Brewing Company, and takes place over the weekend of the 14th and 15th October 2011 with local live music, as has been the case for several years. However, this beer festival is not the annual Bath Beer festival as described above, which is a CAMRA event. This one is is a commercial venture being run for the first time, the local CAMRA branch having found that the hiring conditions imposed by the venue are unacceptable. Preparations are already in hand for the 34th CAMRA Bath Beer Festival to be back next year in a new and much more comfortable venue, with all the local bands as usual.
Beer festival
A Beer Festival is an organised event during which a variety of beers are available for tasting and purchase. Beer festivals are held in a number of countries...
held in the city of Bath, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
The festival offers opportunities to taste over 85 real ales
Cask ale
Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is the term for unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure...
, along with a range of traditional cider
Cider
Cider or cyder is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice. Cider varies in alcohol content from 2% abv to 8.5% abv or more in traditional English ciders. In some regions, such as Germany and America, cider may be termed "apple wine"...
and Belgian beers.
The 30th anniversary festival was held on two nights beginning 19 October 2007 at The Pavilion.
10,000 pints were served at the event.
Local brewery Abbey Ales used the event to launch a new beer, Bellringer Maximus.
The 2011 festival is the first under new sponsor, The Somerset Brewing Company, and takes place over the weekend of the 14th and 15th October 2011 with local live music, as has been the case for several years. However, this beer festival is not the annual Bath Beer festival as described above, which is a CAMRA event. This one is is a commercial venture being run for the first time, the local CAMRA branch having found that the hiring conditions imposed by the venue are unacceptable. Preparations are already in hand for the 34th CAMRA Bath Beer Festival to be back next year in a new and much more comfortable venue, with all the local bands as usual.