You can taste more than 300 beers at Bristol Craft Beer Festival
We Are Beer is hosting Bristol Craft Beer Festival at Harbourside on 12-13 June. The all-inclusive event offers the chance for visitors to try more than 300 beers from more than 50 breweries included in the ticket price.
Upon entry, visitors will be given a festival glass, which they can keep and use to try the different beers at the festival. As well as breweries, there will be drink producers with items to try, from cocktails to whisky, and wine to ciders. The event will also have some of Bristol’s finest food purveyors on hand, plus music and entertainment.
World-class breweries
As well as world-class breweries, there will be drink producers and artisanal snacks for attendees to try and with many other drinks available, “there’s more than just beer at the festival,” according to Bristol Craft Beer Festival co-founder Greg Wells, who explained: “Many will have free samples, with long drinks and large serves at an additional cost.”
The location for the festival, which is in Lloyds Amphitheatre is based “at the heart of Bristol, giving the brewing community in Bristol, and the craft beer revolution at large the stage it deserves” follows two years in the yard at Motion.
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“The fact we’re so close to King Street, the vibrant heart of the Bristol beer scene, and Wapping Wharf, which is such a destination for food and drink fans from all over, made so much sense to us,” said Wells. He pointed out that the location was “perfect to make this event something really special and unique”.
Taking the party to another level
Wells added: “We’ll be bringing together an awesome food market right on the bank of the Avon, looking across to the Wapping Wharf and the museum. We’ll be creating a gorgeous outdoor area to enjoy the beers with our music stage taking the party onto another level. Every space in between will be filled with you, the wonderful crowd of beer geeks, food and drink lovers, and good time seekers that make our festivals the best.”
Last year, SIBA data gathered from industry insight and consumer polling provided an authoritative assessment on the state of independent brewing in 2025 and revealed that whilst average production climbed 10% last year, 46% of independent brewers say their main priority is survival and almost a third (29%) expect turnover to fall. Without support from beer fans and local communities, the sector will continue to face challenges, despite its popularity with drinkers.
In the lead-up the the 2025 festival, Wells observed that the festival gets “a lot of people from Bath and Taunton and Gloucester, [as well as] from Exeter and Plymouth and then a little bit of South Wales, too”.
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