Stockport Beer and Cider Festival

Cask being poured at Stockport Beer festival

Stockport Beer & Cider Festival takes place June 18th-20th! We'll have 200+ cask ales (and yes, some keg too thanks for our friends at @runawaybrewery.bsky.social!) Plus delicious ciders and plenty of interesting cans and bottles. Early bird tickets are available now:

www.stockportfestival.org.uk

(*Please note the 2026 festival glass is non-refundable!)

A handpull at Stockport Beer Festival advertising Steelfish Mild at Heart

We're excited to welcome you back to the 2026 Stockport Beer & Cider Festival this June! Early Doors tickets are available at just £16.50, which include £10 in drinks vouchers, a lovely glass to enjoy your drinks*, and entry on the day you choose.

www.stockportfestival.org.uk?ref=SF

Save the Date!

Stockport Beer & Cider Festival, organised by your friends at @ssmcamra.bsky.social, will return to the Guildhall on the 18th, 19th and 20th of June, 2026. Be there or be square!

Two of the winners were also winners of our homebrewing competition organised by our chair @beer4john.bsky.social, and both members of @brewclubshef.bsky.social. Huge congrats again to all the winners.

The winners of our beer of the festival have been announced! Congrats to the following:

Gold – @torrside.bsky.social Grendel with homebrewer Jon Britton.
Silver – Bridgehouse Rum & Raisin Stout
Bronze - @marblebrewers.bsky.social Stratagem, which was with homebrewer Joe Lee.

Congratulations to @brewclubshef.bsky.social member Jon Britton & @torrside.bsky.social whose collab beer 'Grendel' has won beer of the festival at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social !🏆
Joe Lee's collab with @marblebrewers.bsky.social 'Stratagem' came 3rd🥳

Let me introduce you to Beowulf & Grendel. Both brewed @torrside.bsky.social with Jon Britton (winner of Stout/Porter category of Homebrewer competition). A historic style London Porter with the Grendel being the Imperial version. Both are superb. @ssmcamra.bsky.social @skbeerfestival.bsky.social

Today’s the final day of our festival and we still have 100s of beers and ciders to try. Tickets are £19 on the door and include £10 worth of tokens, and £4 is refundable when you return your glass. Come and join us at the Guildhall!

Starting line-up on the keg bar @skbeerfestival.bsky.social today...

- Stockparty IPA
- NZ Pale
- Mango Ginger & Lime Sour (get in early tho)
- East India Porter

Coming up today...
- IPA
-Session IPA (Moutere & Pacific Sunrise)
- Rustic Pale
- ESB
- Only After Dark BIPA

Come & say hi!

Theakston Old Peculier from the wood a highlight at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social

*a lot of the pale ales we have on offer taste of grapefruit which is ok if that’s your kinda thing. Ours is an inclusive event!

🚨We’re down to the last six cans of Grapefruit Schöff on the bottle and can bar. When it runs out you’ll have to drink cask ale🚨

Which is exactly our plan. We’re the campaign for real ale, not the campaign for grapefruit pale.

totalcurtis on Instagram: "I’m very pleased to welcome a special guest to this week’s Friday update. @beer4john has been the chair of the Stockport and South …" I’m very pleased to welcome a special guest to this week’s Friday update. @beer4john has been the chair of the Stockport and South Manchester @campaignforrealale branch for 27 years, and he’s also a very good mate of mine. This weekend sees the 37th @skbeerfestival and we’re both working here as volunteers. Yeah publishing writing and podcasts is important, but here is where the action is. So get down and support your local beer fest this weekend, you might just find a your new favourite beer. Or at least, one to rival it.View all comments

I have resisted for so long, but I have caved and started doing video on my Instagram. Just a short weekly vid, which this weeks is recorded at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social and features the one and only @beer4john.bsky.social! Find it here:

www.instagram.com/reel/DLHeZx9...

Glass of Strong Dark Mild with beers on spillage in background.

Congratulations to @thornbridge and Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery, their Strong Dark Mild brewed on the Burton Union Set is superb. Soft, caramel, dark fruity malts and full bodied. Lovely. At the @ssmcamra.bsky.social @skbeerfestival.bsky.social

A big bowl of daal and rice with the bhaji on it.

Food? Put a bhaji on it. Don’t go hungry at the 37th Stockport Beer & Cider festival by visiting one of our excellent food traders. Pairs very well with a Zapato Oso pale ale, take it from me.

A half of old Peculier at Stockport beer festival

Just doing a little bit of quality control on the Theakston’s Old Peculier from the Wood. Find it on Bar Nouveau on the first floor!

Smiling volunteers at Stockport Beer Festival!

Stockport! Today is the day! Our Trade session opens at 15:30 and we open to the public at 17:30. Advance tickets are still available, although you can pay on the door if you like to keep things casual. Get a ticket here:

www.stockportfestival.org.uk

Oo-er (Matt's calves will be on display behind our fully refrigerated bottle and can bar throughout todays and tomorrows sessions.)

People enjoying themselves inside the guildhall at Stockport Beer Festival

It's Stockport Beer & Cider Festival eve! Our volunteers are busy getting the festival set up as we speak. And while you can pay on the door, buying an advance ticket here can save you a few precious pennies:

www.stockportfestival.org.uk

Do you know what's lovely? Cider. Do you know what else is lovely? Perry. And we've got loads of both at our festival, which kicks off this Thursday and runs until Saturday the 21st! Come and enjoy a lovely fruit-based beverage at the Guildhall this week!

www.stockportfestival.org.uk/ciders

I will be sweating it out on the bottle and can bar all day Thursday and Friday, so I expect to be busy, because we've got lots of lovely lager (and I may well tear into the RedWillow Godless helles myself tbqh)

Midsummer madness returns It’s midsummer, so its time for the annual CAMRA Stockport Beer and Cider Festival. The 37th festival runs from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 June at the...

Thanks to our glorious overlords at @camraofficial.bsky.social for featuring our little fest in What's Brewing. Lots of lovely detail about what you can expect from the fest here (spoiler, its world class independently produced beer and cider.)

wb.camra.org.uk/2025/06/13/m...

It's going to be a hot one this week, so we want to reassure you we've got:

- Cask cooling on all bars
- A large outdoor seating area
- A keg beer bar run by @runawaybrewery.bsky.social
- A fully refrigerated bottle and can bar

Get your tickets now:

www.stockportfestival.org.uk

This will be on cask at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social from Thursday this week.

*Mums, Aunties, Uncles, Grandparents, Brothers, Sisters and everyone else would love a ticket to Stockport Beer Festival too tbh.

Men at the bar at the Stockport Beer Festival

It's Fathers Day* this Sunday! Why not surprise dad with a ticket to Stockport Beer & Cider festival? You'll be quids in!

www.stockportfestival.org.uk

Find me (when not on shift) enjoying an OP from the wood.

Not forgetting we'll also have a wide range of lagers, lambics, low alcohol beers and more at our bottle and can bar, plus a huge selection of ciders and perries! There's only one place to be June 19th-21st, and that's Stockport.

The full beer list for our festival is now available to peruse online, and it's really quite something. Read it here, and make sure you grab your advance ticket while you're browsing:

www.stockportfestival.org.uk/beers