Beer fans head to Bristol this week
Around 5,000 beer fans and more than 50 brewers are due to attend Bristol Craft Beer Festival this Friday and Saturday. The post Beer fans head to Bristol this week appeared first on The Drinks Business.
Around 5,000 beer fans and more than 50 brewers are due to attend Bristol Craft Beer Festival this Friday and Saturday.
The festival, which is being held at Lloyds Amphitheatre from 13-14 June, will offer up a selection of 300 beers from breweries across the region.
Bristol Craft Beer Festival co-founder Greg Wells revealed how this year’s event will be celebrating 10 years of a "craft beer revolution" and recently revealed via the BBC that "it's brilliant to have been a part of a decade of great beer in Bristol, and the revolution that's happened in Bristol and the UK as a whole”.
He noted how the event, which started at Motion nightclub in 2015, has grown from a "niche gathering for beer aficionados" into one of the UK's "biggest celebrations of craft beer". However, describing the ups and downs of the past decade for beer, Wells pointed out that "no doubt the biggest challenge we've faced has been Covid" when he hosted an event between lockdowns in September 2020, in a bid to help the beer sector bounce back.
Reminiscing about those times, Wells remembered: "We orchestrated a small sit-down event with space and rotation. It saved our sanity that year”. He admitted: "There's no doubt that, like everyone, we were a little bruised and battered and balance sheets in various states of disrepair. But Bristol supported it. I don't think there's any city in the UK that has the sense of community that Bristol does."
Showing green shoots for the city's beer scene, Bristol Beer Factory (BBF) moved its brewing to a modern and sustainable production facility last year to assist in boosting its brewing capacity due to a rise in demand for its beer.
Breweries from across the city as well as further afield will all come together this week to celebrate their staying power in what has been an unprecedented decade and one beset by challenges over the last few years.
This year's event will offer beer fans the chance to try around 300 beers from more than 50 breweries, including many from Bristol itself and the surrounding area. Additionally, the festival will also feature streetfood stalls and live music to raise morale and remind people far and wide that the sector is a valuable part of the city's draw for many looking to visit.
Well’s added: "We get 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. It's something for Bristol, but also for the region."
The festival, which is being held at Lloyds Amphitheatre from 13-14 June, will offer up a selection of 300 beers from breweries across the region.
Bristol Craft Beer Festival co-founder Greg Wells revealed how this year’s event will be celebrating 10 years of a "craft beer revolution" and recently revealed via the BBC that "it's brilliant to have been a part of a decade of great beer in Bristol, and the revolution that's happened in Bristol and the UK as a whole”.
He noted how the event, which started at Motion nightclub in 2015, has grown from a "niche gathering for beer aficionados" into one of the UK's "biggest celebrations of craft beer". However, describing the ups and downs of the past decade for beer, Wells pointed out that "no doubt the biggest challenge we've faced has been Covid" when he hosted an event between lockdowns in September 2020, in a bid to help the beer sector bounce back.
Reminiscing about those times, Wells remembered: "We orchestrated a small sit-down event with space and rotation. It saved our sanity that year”. He admitted: "There's no doubt that, like everyone, we were a little bruised and battered and balance sheets in various states of disrepair. But Bristol supported it. I don't think there's any city in the UK that has the sense of community that Bristol does."
Showing green shoots for the city's beer scene, Bristol Beer Factory (BBF) moved its brewing to a modern and sustainable production facility last year to assist in boosting its brewing capacity due to a rise in demand for its beer.
Breweries from across the city as well as further afield will all come together this week to celebrate their staying power in what has been an unprecedented decade and one beset by challenges over the last few years.
This year's event will offer beer fans the chance to try around 300 beers from more than 50 breweries, including many from Bristol itself and the surrounding area. Additionally, the festival will also feature streetfood stalls and live music to raise morale and remind people far and wide that the sector is a valuable part of the city's draw for many looking to visit.
Well’s added: "We get 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. It's something for Bristol, but also for the region." 
