t’s the 50th anniversary of the first ever York CAMRA Beer Festival!
Buy your advance tickets here: York beer and cider festival 2024 tickets
We expect to serve around 200 local and national cask and keg beers from a large selection of breweries plus ciders and perries. This includes Yorkshire breweries and cideries, particularly those within 25 miles of York. There will be an expanded range of the best ales and kegs, ciders and perries from around the UK together plus a range of wine, mead and soft drinks.
A mix of beer styles in cask dispensed as handpull or gravity and complemented by craft key keg and keg. We expect to have a cornucopia of tastes to experience in September. We will have our 50th anniversary festival special brewed in conjunction with Yorkshire Heart Brewery.
The list of beers can be found on the Drinks Lists page and non-alcoholic draught beer will be served on the keg bar.
Cider and perry are better than ever, with the quality on offer increasing yearly. A trend has been for fruity ciders, with all sorts of things added, typically meaning they have a lot of sugar and are very sweet.
Although lovely in their own right, the traditional ciders are often much more excellent once you slow down and find the flavours stored within.
We are blessed here at York to have some real cider and perry experts, so if you are unsure, we would be delighted to help you find the perfect cider and perry with 30 on sale in the church.
The list of ciders and perries can be found on the Drinks Lists page.
We are featuring a range of white, rose and red wine, and white fizz plus the ever popular mead selection.
The list of wines and meads can be found on the Drinks Lists page.
Water is available free of charge in the church and soft drinks can be bought from the caterers.
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St Lawrence Church Community Hall, Lawrence St, York YO10 3WP |
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Ended Sat 21 Sep 2024 |
This festival is organised by the Campaign for Real Ale | |
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https://yorkbeerfestival.camra.org.uk/ |
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Information is provided to the best of our knowledge, but please check with the festival organiser before attending as the details here may be inaccurate.
This beer list is tentative, please check at the festival for available beers as changes can occur before and during the festival.
West Coast style IPA, tropical citrus fruit flavours and aroma.
New England style IPA, soft fruity and juicy and naturally hazy.
Pale ale with mango.
A refreshing straw coloured beer with a flinty grapefruit aroma brewed to slake the mightiest thirst.
Fruity citrus hoppy aromas progress into a sweet fruity, hoppy beer.
West Coast IPA with Chinook, Cascade and Centennial.
Session ale with a high rate of hopping with Comet, Summit and Amarillo.
A chewy chocolate-vanilla dream of a porter. Decadent and moreish.
A bold blend of Talus, Chinook and El Dorado hops perfect for those who appreciate an American Pale Ale.
Tonka beans, coconut, vanilla and cacao combine to make a silky smooth indulgent milk stout.
American brown with toasted malt and caramel behind piney hop character with notes of berries and citrus.
Bridges the gap between lager and ale. Clean tasting and thirst quenching.
Light copper bitter with balanced, sweet malt, caramel, toffee, and mild bitterness.
Named after the Blunderbuss, this beer explodes with flavour.
Crisp light golden ale with a refreshing clean citrus flavour.
Golden IPA, a full flavoured citrusy ale.
Ruby coloured premium bitter full of malt and fruit flavours.
Roasted caramel taste with English hops bitterness to give a balanced and well-rounded taste.
Lighter in body but with a beautiful blend of USA hops, giving a mango/citrus flavour and aroma.
Coffee and slightly smoky notes with bitterness from the English hops. Adapted from an original Victorian recipe.
Classic copper coloured malty bitter. Gently hopped to complement Crystal and Amber malts.
Maris Otter and Crystal Malt paired well with peachy Amarillo hops for a great tasting British IPA.
Pale Ale made with English hops.
Classic bitter modernised it with the addition of HBC-630 Hops. It's a session bitter for 21st century drinkers.
Hopped with modern Strata and Talus hops - bringing tropical notes of stone fruit, and berries.
Six different hops from around the world are used to make this powerful west coast style IPA.
Notes of passion fruit, and satsuma with a touch of pine to add a subtle earthy quality to the mix.
Aromas of pink grapefruit, mango and orange rind follow through into the flavour.
This snappy West Coast-style Pale Ale is all about the modern classic hop variety Mosaic.
A classic best bitter made using all British hops, malt & yeast.
Full bodied, light & tropical notes from the copious amount of Citra and Mosaic hops.
A delicious blend of coffee and plenty of lactose make this a very easy drinking stout.
Mosaic and Citra hops shine in this session IPA giving tropical and citrus flavours.
Mosaic, Simcoe, Ekuanot combine in this hoppy session IPA.
Juicy NEIPA with verdant yeast and Citra, Simcoe and Ekuanot with big mouthfeel from oats.
Dry, piney finish from the hops and a crisp, refreshing malt base and amber colour.
Mosaic provides notes of passion fruit and lychee in this soft pale ale.
Citra, Mosaic and Strata for punchy grapefruit & pomelo notes.
Classic English porter, malty sweetness & bitter hoppiness with chocolate and coffee notes.
Brewed to the Great Heck recipie to celebrate the life and beer travels of Allan Conner.
Sweet plums mixed with chocolate malt to create a delicious earthy porter.
Vermont pale brewed with Citra hops.
Full of smooth, chocolatey deliciousness and a cheeky burst of cherry
New Prize Ale, drawing inspiration from the stronger, hoppier special bitters of the 1960s.
New edition of our Abbey Ale, brewed to celebrate Leeds International 2024 at Kirkstall Abbey.
Solid malt back bone gives way to Celeia hops and First Gold for bittering.
Single hopped pale ale, showcasing Citra.
A deep amber with lovely fruit notes, well balanced hops and malts.
Nelson Sauvin brings fruit juice with a white wine hit, Amarillo contributes orange, stone fruit & melon.
Brewed with Port Strret Beer House, Columbus, Simcoe and Mosaic make for a punchy, pithy beer.
Amarillo, Warrior and Simcoe give citrus, orange and pineapple flavours with hints of pine & sweet basil.
Aroma of Tiramisu, flavours of latte coffee, hints of chocolate, honeycomb, caramel and vanilla.
Refreshing citrus punch, with light biscuity notes, and a pleasing bitter finish.
This US pale ale has lemon, floral and orange blossom flavours.
Mosaic hops are full of blueberry and citrus flavours and seriously pack a powerful punch.
Porter made from five different malts, infused post fermentation with Tiramisu flavouring.
Big ripper pale from the land down under. Galaxy and Topaz hops give passionfruit, ripe peach and juicy lychee.
Hazy, with tropical fruit juiciness of Galaxy, Mosaic and Simcoe with passion fruit purée.
Citra hops create aromas of mango, apricot, grapefruit & mandarin orange, with tropical fruit bitterness.
Pale and hoppy with floral aromas and citrus flavour.
Refreshing pale ale with tropical fruit flavour.
Mahogany coloured beer with hints of dried fruit & prune, with classic, fruity, bitterness on the finish.
Unfiltered, hoppy lager brewed with punchy Slovenian Most and Kazbek hops.
Bobek, Styrian Dragon and Styrian Wolf hops give a mix of pine, passionfruit and lemon in this hazy pale.
A citrusy, well-balanced, hop forward West Coast IPA with notes of tropical fruits and pine.
Brewed since at least the 1930s for the Howden Arms.
Single hop Aurora, floral and herbal notes of apple blossom and lovage with lime, passion fruit and juniper.
Dark and foreboding, rich raisin notes with a subtle smokiness.
Tropical fruits and fresh citrus notes with background depth of peach, apricot and nectarine.
Pithy and snappy bitterness complements the crisp profile of this Cali IPA with a tropical and citrus aroma.
A dry Irish Stout. Serves black in colour and packs plenty of caramel and roast malt flavour.
British roasted malts and hops are combined to make this red session ale.
Passionfruit, grape and white wine flavours are what we can expect from Nelson Sauvin.
Smooth amber ale with flavours of orange and spice.
Golden session pale ale with hints of red apple from organic Wakatu and Taiheke hops.
Sureshot x Anspach & Hobday x BarthHaas
Extra Special Bitter dry hopped with Mosaic Lupomax, HBC 1019 & Ernest Spectrum.
Light haze and soft body with Australian and American hops giving a bouquet of mango, pineapple and guava.
West Coast Pale brewed with Lakedown bursting with waves of grapefruit and a subtle underlying spice.
Classic British-style cask IPA with British Goldings and Northdown, giving gentle berry flavours and cedar-like hop aromas.
Stone fruit flavours, a juicy aroma, and as smooth as you like.
A light easy drinking pale with light raspberry flavours.
Amarillo and El Dorado hops are whirl pooled to give fruity notes of peach, citrus and tropical fruit.
Thirtieth Anniversary Pale - collaboration with Machine Head.
Pale brewed with Azzacca and Mosaic hops
Oats and dextrin add to mouthfeel, with Citra, Simcoe and Ekuanot for pine, herb & juicy citrus.
Pale ale with Riwaka hops.
Malt base has lots of Vienna and Munich with hops inspired by west coast - Simcoe and Chinook.
A highly hopped session IPA. Hop forward flavour with a balanced malt base.
British style IPA. A beautiful balance of lightly toasted malts and zingy citrus.
English brown porter.
Meaning "gold"" this festival special brewed with Challenger, Mosaic and Citra and dry hopped with Simcoe and “Cryo Pop” celebrates 50 years since the first CAMRA beer festival in York."
Easy-drinking, juice and hazy LOW ALCOHOL pale ale with El Dorado, Citra and Mosaic hops.
Aroma of citrus and tropical fruit with flavours of stone fruit, citrus and tropical fruit.
House pilsner conditioned with Brettanomyces. Funky, clean and effervescent with lemon, hay and elderflower.
West Coast Pale with notes of pine resin and grapefruit citrus with a clean and bitter finish.
With Double-Barrelled, a New England IPA with Mosaic, Simcoe Cryo, Nelson T45 and Nelson Hop Kief.
Sour with Lemon Pepper leaves, pineapple weed, bay, blackcurrant leaves and lemon balm, aged for 6 months.
Liberally dry hopped with Motueka, Citra and Amarillo. Zingy and Tropical.
Fermented with a mixed culture of yeast, wild yeast and bacteria, aged then refermented with raspberries.
A super fruity session sour ale that is brewed with a mahoosive dose of strawberry puree and watermelon.
IPA. Citra, Nelson, Vic Secret, Simcoe: Heavy lemon and lime notes, with layers of pineapple and light pine.
Vic Secret pale ale that is positively bursting at the seams with pungent tropical pineapple notes.
DIPA with Cryo Simcoe, Cryo Citra, Cryo Talus, Cryo Strata.
IPA packed with Citra, Mosaic & Azacca hops giving an intense tropical fruit bowl of flavours.
Aromas of mixed berries and white chocolate, this smoothie sour has hints of cinnamon, vanilla and banana.
With Neon Raptor, 8 malts deliver a deep, rich and slightly bitter imperial chocolate stout.
Toasted marshmallow & chocolate biscuit porter.
Full bodied smoothie-like gose, brewed with British raspberries and Cornish sea salt.
Full of real fruit purée, including silky smooth mango, sweet peach, juicy pear, and sour red cherry.
Oude Lambiek infused during several weeks with Lemon Verbena Leaf.
Traditional beer designed to quench the thirst of seasonal farm workers.
Made the finest German malt and hops give beautiful combination of sweetness and bitterness.
Dual hopped with Hallertau Mittelfrüh and a late addition of a secret German hop.
Pale gold in colour, the hoppy, dry finish is from using Hallertau and Tettnang hops.
Rich cherry beer, a blend of Kasteel's celebrated quadruple-style beer Donker and cherry liqueur.
Intensely dark beer with aniseed complemented by hints of creamy caramel and fire-roasted chestnuts.
Deep gold in colour, this beer is luminous in the glass, a balanced harmony of hop and malt aromas.
Medium dry blend of 40 varieties of dessert cooking eating apples
Dry classic Eastern Counties style blended with eating apples
Medium well rounded gorgeous golden colour
Medium cloudy cider from a variety of apples giving full-bodied fruity taste
Sweet - cloudy pure juicy apple sweetness
Medium sweet smooth and rich red colour - CAMRA award winner
Dry crisp sensation followed by astringent aftertaste
Medium dry rich deep copper cider full of flavour
Sweet classic handcrafted cloudy - perfect after a day's work in the fields
The infamous dry cider named after the famous cider Cheddar shop
Medium cloudy unfiltered crisp and refreshing
Medium rich high tannin smooth blend of Michelin, Dabinet and Yarlington
Medium sweet celebrating local royal Kate Middleton
Medium sweet with some pleasant citrus notes
A light fruity Perry made from proper Perry Pears
Medium vintage varieties harvested from the few remaining pear orchards
2015 Champion Perry of Britain fruity medium with hint of honey
Fruity medium from Stinking Bishop perry pears - complex yet balanced flavour
Medium sweet with strawberry and a hint of garden mint
Sweet traditional delicate cider from eating apples blended with strawberry
Sweet classic cocktail cider - juicy mango squeezed lime and rum kick
Cider with blackberries for a uniquely refreshing cider
Medium cider blended with white peaches for a fruity and refreshing drink
Apple cider blended with Strawberry, Raspberry and Blackcurrant
Real apple cider with tart Rhubarb and blended with vanilla
Medium sweet traditional cider apple blend and pure raspberry juice
Sweet farmhouse - rich fruity full apple taste
Initial data sourced from aletalk.co.uk
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