New venue for London Beer Festival

The London Craft Beer Festival is almost doubling the size of the show this year, as well as launching an event in Edinburgh.

It is also launching an Edinburgh edition of the show in May, which follows on the heels of its inaugural Bristol show in September 2016. The new Scottish show will take place at the Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh, showcasing beers from around 30 breweries – but these are predominantly national and international rather than local beers, show organiser Daniel Sylvester explained.

Sylvester admitted it was unusual, but insisted the show would showcase some of the highest quality breweries, and have a more international flavour.

“We didn’t want to be condescending and simply get in some local breweries,” he said.

The team are bringing representatives from around ten US breweries to the London, Bristol and Edinburgh shows for the fist time, including San Diego’s Modern Times Beer, Baltimore’s Stillwater Artisanal and the Other Half Brewing Company from Brooklyn.

This will build on the show’s existing focus on Scandinavian and Australian and UK breweries, Sylvester said.

Exhibitors confirmed for 2017 include Oskar Blues, Burning Sky, White Hag, Fourpure Brewing Company, Aegir Bryggeri from Norwary and Mikkeller Beer from Denmark.