Winchester Beer and Cider Festival

An amazing £1,491.36 was raised during the weekend from your generous donations for our festival charity @WinchesterGo_LD Thank you all for your wonderful support👏👏👏

WIN festival FREE ENTRY tickets to your choice of session! Tell us where these 4 photos of our festival banners and poster were taken? CLUE - All are in Winchester👍 Please DM with street or building name, and in correct order🍻

Winchester Go LD is our 2026 festival charity. It enables adults with learning disabilities to live life to the full with the choices and independence they want and offers them free support in the Winchester area😊 Please give generously at the festival to this worthy cause🙏

Are you wanting to enjoy the festival in a group🍻 Tickets for groups are available online, 5 tickets for the price of 4, for either of the festival sessions👍 Group tickets are available ONLINE only, from tckty.camra.org.uk/e/480/win…

This year’s festival beer and cider list is here (all subject to availability), it's also on our website to view😉👌🍻 If you’d like to see (and taste!) the fruits of our labours please do join us on 12/13 June! Tickets available, details on website, link in contact info!

Have you spotted our banners around Winchester? If you have, send us a photo here and say where you saw one of our banners👀 "Warming up for @WinchBeerFest at the @TheQueenInn beer festival this weekend!"

Festival entertainment🥳 Friday afternoon - quiet session to enjoy the buzz of the festival and a peaceful drink or catchup with friends🍻 Fri eve - Rhythm City performing their versions of hits from the 1960s to today🎶 Saturday - give your brain a workout with our quiz🤔

Tickets are now available from all outlets! For online sales and to order by post, full details are on our website! For local outlets🍺CASH sales only please👍 In Winchester, please visit @WilliamWPub @hydetavern The Albion (SO23 7BZ) and in Southampton the @bottleandstoat🍻

Tickets now on sale in local outlets🍺 For CASH sales, please visit The Albion (SO23 7BZ), @hydetavern @WilliamWPub @BottleandStoat will also be selling tickets soon! Thanks for helping us sell festival tickets, your help is much appreciated👏 For orders by post see our website👍

This year's festival session dates and times👍 Tickets are on sale online tckty.camra.org.uk/e/480/win… Note the ** NEW ** longer session on Saturday🍻

We are planning to have our tickets on sale during the week beginning 6 April, see festival website for latest information!

We were pleased to support Read Easy Winchester as our festival charity for 2025. A fantastic amount was raised by our customers last year, thank you🎉 We will announce our festival charity for this year soon👍

Looking back at our beer and cider winners in 2025, well done to them🍻 Who will be the winners this year? Please make your choices when you are there this year, your vote matters!

INTRODUCING...our sponsors this year🍺 We’d like to say a huge thank you to @HopBackBrewery as our glass sponsor this year. Their pub in Winchester, the Albion, SO23 7BZ, is in the CAMRA 2026 Good Beer Guide, so if you can't wait, pop in there for a range of Hop Back beers🍻

We’d also like to thank the @FlowerPotsBrew in Cheriton, one of our regular festival supporters for providing t-shirts this year for our hard working volunteers👏 Thank you very much as always to our sponsors, we will be having beer from them at our festival for you all to buy🍻

🍻2026 Dates Confirmed🍻 Friday 12 June & Saturday 13 June winchesterbeerfestival.camra… @WinchBeerFest

We're setting up the festival, getting the stillage, the cooling, the venting and spiling of the casks and building the bars to make sure the beers are in great condition and ready for YOU this weekend👍 Get your tickets NOW, full details on website🍻

Did you see us in the @hantschronicle today📰 The first session of our festival opens tomorrow, Friday, at 1130am, see website for ticket details🍻 Full details of all our sessions and the BEER list is on our website👍

CONGRATULATIONS to Lewis and Stephen (both from the Southampton area), who were the lucky winners of the competition run by the @hantschronicle for a pair of free festival entry tickets👏 If you were not lucky, we still have tickets on sale so make sure YOU don’t miss out 🍻

The best kind of list is the one with the beers on it 👌😉👍 That list is now complete (subject to availability) and is on our website to view🍻 If you’d like to see (and taste!) the fruits of our labours please do join us on 27/28 June!