Food & Drink
Bottoms up at Bradford Beer Festival For the 21st consecutive year, Bradford CAMRA’s annual beer festival will be back at Saltaire’s historic Victoria Hall from 22nd to 24th February, bringing the best of the region’s new cask ales to beer lovers from Bradford and beyond. Festival Organiser Kerr Kennedy is delighted that CAMRA will again be working with the Hall’s management and staff to present an exciting three-day event that will offer new visitors and regular attenders a quality experience and beers to remember. “Organising the Festival is a challenging task”, says Kerr, “given that it is planned and staffed totally by volunteer CAMRA members. We rely on a core of volunteers, some of whom have done this for over thirty years. Their enthusiasm and attitude is tremendous and reflects the passion they all have for cask beers. We need over 100 volunteers to set it up, staff the festival opening days and take it
down again. It takes four days to set up and five hours to dismantle!!!” The three-day event will feature nearly 100 cask ales from new and established breweries across West and North Yorkshire including ales from each of the breweries in Bradford. In addition there will be a featured range of ales from the southwest counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset through a special arrangement with our friends at The Exeter Brewery who will collect and send a delivery of 36 ales rarely, if ever, seen in the North of England.
Thursday 22 February 2-11pm, Friday 23 11.30am-5.30pm & 6.30pm-11pm, Saturday 24 February 11.30am-5.30pm & 6.30-11pm. Tickets £5/£3 Free to CAMRA members Victoria Hall, Saltaire
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