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.[1] 10,000 pints were served at the event.[2] Local brewery Abbey Ales used the event to launch a new beer, Bellringer Maximus.[3]
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.