Mark your calendar for the Great British Beer Festival

One of the summer’s most unmissable events is just around the corner! CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival will be returning to the halls of Olympia London from 7-11 August 2018.

Living up to its reputation as ‘the ultimate beer festival’, this is the only place where you can visit 30 different bars serving nearly a thousand different beers, ciders, perries, wines and gins. One of the biggest, most exciting and well-known events in the beer world, the Great British Beer Festival brings together great food, entertainment, and most importantly - great beer.

This year we'll be welcoming back our favourite brewery bars including Greene King, Fuller’s Harvey’s, St Austell’s, XT and Titanic. For the very first time we will also be introducing brewers including Budvar, Beer Monkey, Arkell’s, Angels & Demons, Brew York, Hook Norton, Thornbridge, Bedlam and Greyhound.

These are in addition to more than 350 breweries represented on the CAMRA bars, including those in the Champion Beer of Britain competition and two dedicated cider and perry bars. This year we will also be introducing even more hand pumps with rotating beers on our bars - keep an eye out for these, because once they’re gone, they’re gone!

In a first for the Great British Beer Festival, entertainment at the Thursday session (9 August) will be hosted by Planet Rock, the largest rock radio station in the UK. Planet Rock will bring the bands Broken Witt Rebels, Danny Bryant, the Dust Coda, Bad Touch, Mollie Marriott and Fireroad to entertain the crowds. This is in addition to the rest of the week’s entertainment lineup which will keep the party going.

The Thursday session will also welcome back the festival’s famous Hat Day, so come along with your most topical, silly or fabulous headgear!
If that wasn’t enough, you can attend tutored tasting sessions to learn more about the brews you are sampling, while enjoying some fantastic street food. Visitors can listen to live music and partake in pub quizzes, and be the first to sample this year’s Champion Beer of Britain winner, the highest accolade in the beer world.

Tickets are now on sale, with day and season options available at cheaper rates than paying on the door. CAMRA members receive an additional discount on all advance tickets, except for VIP options. Don’t miss this year’s exciting lineup of events - book your tickets today to take part in five days of fun at CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival 2018!