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Britain’s top beer festival returns CAMRA’s flagship beer fest is back following a two-year hiatus The Great British Beer Festival
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(GBBF), the five-day celebration of all things beer and cider plus good food and live music, is back. Visitors can also try their hand at traditional pub games, sample traditional snacks and take part in guided beer tastings. This is a huge event with thousands of beer and cider lovers making the pilgrimage to the capital every year. Britain’s premier beer festival is returning to Olympia London on 2–6 August 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to extensive social-distancing measures and crowd restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. GBBF, now in its 45th year, will once again feature top-quality cask beer sourced from across the British Isles. New breweries will join stalwarts of the brewing industry in a collaborative effort to celebrate and showcase the very best live beer, cider and perry that Britain has to offer. This year, visitors can also sample some of the very best real ale America has to offer, thanks to a cask beer exchange set up between GBBF and the New England Real Ale eXhibition. This makes GBBF the sole destination to find superb cask-conditioned American beers – a rarity even in the United States itself, where keg beer is predominant. Tickets to this extraordinary event
are now on sale. Entry is £20 and visitors will receive a souvenir glass, programme and two half pints to kick off their day of beer and cider tasting. VIP and corporate ticket packages are also available. Festival organiser Catherine Tonry says: “It gives me great pleasure to announce the return of the Great British
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“Our organising group has worked hard to put on a good show this year, and we are confident we won’t disappoint” Beer Festival in 2022. Circumstances outside our control have seen hundreds of beer festivals cancelled across the country over the past two years, so the return of the Great British Beer Festival marks an incredibly positive turn for the beer industry and beer drinkers alike. I think we can all raise a glass to a new chapter of great beer and camaraderie in a post-pandemic world.” She adds: “Regular visitors to the
festival may notice some small changes to the layout this year due to ongoing works at our venue, Olympia London. Our organising group has worked
incredibly hard to put on a good show this year, and we are confident that we won’t disappoint!” GBBF wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of dedicated volunteers from across the country who converge on London year after year to organise the best beer show in the country. Around 1,000 volunteers help make the event possible, with all festival proceeds going directly back into CAMRA’s wideranging campaigning activity. ● Find out more and buy tickets at gbbf.org.uk
Tim Hampson is a former chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers and author of CAMRA’s 101 Beer Days Out (shop1.camra.org.uk)
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