21st Keighley Beer Festival
Venue, opening times and prices
Victoria Hall, Bradford Road, Keighley BD21 3JN (the usual venue)
10 mins walk from Keighley rail station or 2 mins walk from the 662 and 760 bus routes. Please note: There will NOT be a free bus service to the venue this year.
Thursday 24th September - Saturday 26th September 2009.
Admission charge £2 (Free entry to CAMRA members) at all times.
- Thursday: 3 - 11 PM.
- Friday: 11 AM - 11 PM.
- Saturday: 11 AM - 11 PM.
Beers
Over 75 Real Ales (including the finalists in 2 regional CAMRA competitions), Large range of Cider & Perry, German beers, Belgian fruit beers and English fruit wines.
To view the cask beer list, click here.
Sponsors
Sponsored by:
- Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd
- Copper Dragon Brewery plc
- Market Town Taverns
- The Red Lion, Skipton
- JD Wetherspoon plc
- T&R Theakston Ltd
- Tetley Cask Patrol
- Ilkley Brewery Co. Ltd
- Old Spot Brewery
- Dark Horse Brewery
- The Grove Inn, Leeds.
- The Boltmakers Arms, Keighley.
- The Swan, Addingham.
- The Kings Arms, Silsden.
- The Harvester, Bingley.
- Society for the preservation of beer from the wood
Entertainment and other information
Entertainment:-- Thursday evening: Cooperage demonstration from T&R Theakston at 6.45 p.m.
- Friday evening: Worth Rail Stompers
- Saturday lunch: Hall Royd Brass Band
- Saturday evening: Nightflyers - a 17-piece dance band.
Commemorative glasses, paid for by £2 deposit on entry. You can keep the glass or just return it for the £2 refund on leaving
T-Shirts.
Quality, reasonably priced Hot & Cold Food will be avaivable, provided by the same caterers as in 2008.
CAMRA Products.
Tombola.
Family Room.
There are no tickets for the festival as we have never yet reached maximum capacity - Just turn up and you should get in!
For more information contact Andy Moore on 01274 822841 or e-mail keighleybeerfestival@blueyonder.co.uk
For a beginner's guide to how the festival works etc., click here.
Festival Charity
As usual, as customers leave they will have the opportunity to donate their unused beer tokens to the festival charity, instead of cashing them in. This year's charity is Manorlands.
