Organisers of Salisbury's Winterfest Beer Festival are putting local brewers centre stage at the event later this month.
Half the 24 real ales, which will be on sale at Winterfest, Salisbury’s popular winter beer and cider festival, will come from local brewers.
The event will return to the city’s Guildhall on 24th and 25th January 2025 after a successful first outing there last year.
At just £10 a ticket – which includes a free glass and souvenir programme – organisers say that Winterfest is the perfect way to ward off the mid-winter blues without inflicting too much damage on the bank balance.
Drinks will be sold in half pints, and one-third of pint measures and card-carrying CAMRA members will get half pints free.
The 2024 event sold out in advance, so anyone wishing to attend the 2025 festival should book now at salisburycamra.org.uk/winterfest
Old Sarum brewers Dark Revolution will be supplying two beers, including Dark Matter, a smooth oatmeal stout which is a blend of eight different malts, while Downton Brewery’s New Forest Ale is always a crowd-pleasing session bitter.
Lovers of Danish Dynamite from Stonehenge Ales of Netheravon will be delighted to hear this will be on tap alongside the brewery’s Old Smokey dark porter-type ale.
Microbreweries will be represented with the Dead Duck Brewery from Hale on the outskirts of the New Forest, bringing the superb Knightwood Oak, a smooth chocolate porter voted best beer by those who attended the 2024 Salisbury Summerfest.
Another one-man outfit, Small Paul’s Brewery from Gillingham, north Dorset, will supply Gylla’s IPA – Gylla was a Saxon chief from whom the town is thought to have derived its name. The Bell Inn in Wylye, which brews it own beer, will supply a porter.
“Winterfest will continue the tradition of a comfortable, conversation-led festival and, of course, an excellent range of real ales and ciders,” said Andrew Hesketh, festivals co-ordinator for the Salisbury & South Wiltshire branch of CAMRA.. “Beers on sale will feature the traditional winter stouts, porters and milds as well as a variety of other ales. These have been selected both locally and from further afield but beers and ciders from Wiltshire and the surrounding counties will be at the heart of the festival.”
The festival will begin on Friday, 24th January, from 6:30 pm through to 11 pm and continue on Saturday, 25th January, from 11 am through to 8 pm.
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