Derby CAMRA Beer Festival

We're bringing the Derby CAMRA Beer Festival back to life!

This November, in partnership with Derby Museums, the Derby CAMRA Heritage Beer Festival will showcase the very best real ales and ciders in Britain against an incredible backdrop at the Museum of Making.

Derby CAMRA festivals have long been celebrated for their unique venues that honour the incredible heritage of our city. The Museum of Making will continue that tradition, making this year's festival an unmissable event. Be sure to follow Derby CAMRA Heritage Beer Festival on Facebook and Instagram for important updates!

Save the date... because we're back! After a four-year hiatus, the Derby CAMRA beer festival returns!

This November, in partnership with the Derby Museums team at the Museum of Making, we will be celebrating our city's incredible brewing history. Standing on the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Museum of Making is widely regarded as the world's first modern factory and provides a unique space to enjoy some of Britain's finest real ales and ciders.

Join us Wednesday 13th - Saturday 16th November at the Derby Museum of Making. Further details, including session times, admission, list of bars and entertainment, coming soon - we are anticipating high demand for tickets so don't miss out, follow this page and our Instagram for all the latest updates!

Something's happening... 👀

Can anyone guess tonight's hangout spot? 🍻

Not long now till the start, plenty of beers still on the stillage to enjoy The Victoria Inn

The England v Switzerland match will be shown at The Victoria Inn KO at 5 PM. There are still plenty of special beers on the bar and stillage and burgers for those feeling peckish. Special 50th-anniversary polos and t-shirts are selling out fast so grab yours whilst stocks last.

T-Shirts and polos available at the stillage at The Victoria Inn as well as plenty of beers still on the bar and new ones going on. Glamorously advertised by John Smith

beer list (live"ish") if beers are gone send a message

Derby Mini Beer Fest 2024 Beer & Cider List Sheet1 Brunswick,ABV %,TYPE,Status,Description Stillage Brunswick,Au p,5.4,Golden Pale,Not Yet Available,Celebratory 50th Beer Crich,Electric Avenue,4.2,Pale Ale - American,Not Yet Available,Light and citrussy with Citra, Simcoe and Galaxy. Crich,Stand,5,IPA American,Not Yet Available,IPA bursti...

Our Beer King Les enjoying the festival

Make sure you visit these great pubs whilst our festival is on. Thanks to the Brunswick and Vic' giving us this unique opportunity

Derby CAMRA will hold a Mini Beer Festival to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Branch between the 3rd and 6th of July 2024. The festival will be spread across three pubs, all close to the railway station in Derby.

Alexandra Hotel, Siddals Road, Derby.
Brunswick Inn, Railway Terrace, Derby.
Victoria Inn, Midland Place, Derby.

Birthday Party

We will hold a birthday party at the Alexandra Hotel on the 3rd of July to celebrate 50 years of Derby CAMRA. We will gather at 16:00 (4pm) in the saloon and at 17:00 (5pm) we will have a few speeches to remember the Real Ale scene over the last half-century. The party is open to all members past and present.

Opening Times

All pubs will be open at their normal times.

The stillages at Brunswick Derby and The Victoria Inn will be open as follows.

Wednesday - 18:00 to 23:00.
Thursday - 11:00 to 23:00.
Friday - 11:00 to 23:00.
Saturday - 11:00 to 23:00.

https://derby.camra.org.uk/Derby_Beer_Festival/ Follow the link to find the current stillage list.

This is a relatively small festival and we plan to have larger traditional ones return, but we wanted to celebrate this milestone. The pubs have been generous to support us and if a success we may try similar events in the future.

The Breweries Leatherbritches Brewery, The Brunswick Brewing Company Ltd, Dancing Duck Brewery and Castle Rock Brewery have brewed exclusive beers for the festival with the latter helped brewed by publican Ralf Hedge and Derby CAMRA pubs officer Mark Fletcher as part of Castle Rocks special Pilot Project of experimental brews.

The specials can be found between the bars and stillages.

Food

The Alexandra Hotel will provide its usual range of filled rolls, sausage rolls and pork pies.

Brunswick Inn will serve their usual food menu from 12:00 to 19:00 every day. There will also be a BBQ from 16:00 to 19:00 on Friday and Saturday.

The Victoria Inn will be doing burgers.

Derby CAMRA will hold a Mini Beer Festival to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Branch between the 3rd and 6th of July 2024. The festival will be spread across three pubs, all close to the railway station in Derby.

Alexandra Hotel, Siddals Road, Derby.
Brunswick Inn, Railway Terrace, Derby.
Victoria Inn, Midland Place, Derby.

Birthday Party

We will hold a birthday party at the Alexandra Hotel on the 3rd of July to celebrate 50 years of Derby CAMRA. We will gather at 16:00 (4pm) in the saloon and at 17:00 (5pm) we will have a few speeches to remember the Real Ale scene over the last half-century. The party is open to all members past and present.

Opening Times

All pubs will be open at their normal times.

The stillages at Brunswick Derby and The Victoria Inn will be open as follows.

Wednesday - 18:00 to 23:00.
Thursday - 11:00 to 23:00.
Friday - 11:00 to 23:00.
Saturday - 11:00 to 23:00.

https://derby.camra.org.uk/Derby_Beer_Festival/ Follow the link to find the current stillage list.

This is a relatively small festival and we plan to have larger traditional ones return, but we wanted to celebrate this milestone. The pubs have been generous to support us and if a success we may try similar events in the future.

The Breweries Leatherbritches Brewery, The Brunswick Brewing Company Ltd, Dancing Duck Brewery and Castle Rock Brewery have brewed exclusive beers for the festival with the latter helped brewed by publican Ralf Hedge and Derby CAMRA pubs officer Mark Fletcher as part of Castle Rocks special Pilot Project of experimental brews.

The specials can be found between the bars and stillages.

Food

The Alexandra Hotel will provide its usual range of filled rolls, sausage rolls and pork pies.

Brunswick Inn will serve their usual food menu from 12:00 to 19:00 every day. There will also be a BBQ from 16:00 to 19:00 on Friday and Saturday.

The Victoria Inn will be doing burgers.

We are very sorry to have to announce that Derby CAMRA is no longer planning to hold our beer festival in September 2022. This decision has been forced on us because the proposed venue had issues with the availability of a suitably priced marquee, making earlier commitments within an agreed financial envelope no longer possible. This was totally out of our control.

We appreciate that this will be a big disappointment to the many people who enjoy these events, please know that we are equally disappointed. This was not an easy decision to make, a lot of hard work had gone in to planning but it is just not possible to run an event that is not economically viable.

However, the positive news is that the Organising Committee are focussed on moving on from this set back and are still very much committed to running a festival. We are in discussions with other possible venues with a view to having a festival early next year so that we can continue our history of popular, enjoyable and successful beer festivals in our city.

The comeback is on...

Derby CAMRA Beer Festival updated their information in their About section.