Category: Beer Festival

New Venue for Lincoln Beer Festival

Lincoln Beer Festival is moving to a new venue in 2025. Over the years, the event has been held in a number of locations across the city but, recently, it has been a fixture at The Drill. However, the organising committee from the Lincoln Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale has decided that the 43rd Lincoln Beer Festival will be held in Southside.

Formerly St Katherine’s Church, Southside is located by the junction of High Street, South Park and Newark Road. The building is owned by Acoustic Nations Live CIC, a not-for-profit organisation which produces music, events, films and videos. It also promotes numerous live events and community activities. Southside aims to showcase the heritage of its site, as well as celebrate all that is good about living in the south of the city.

Explaining the decision to move, Festival Organiser Mark Richards said, “We’ve had many great times at The Drill and the staff there are so helpful and accommodating. Unfortunately, since COVID, the footfall in the city centre, particularly in the evenings, has reduced significantly. As a result, our attendance has fallen away. We’ve decided that, if people aren’t coming into the city centre, we’ll take the Festival to the people. And where better to do it than Southside, a wonderfully atmospheric, events venue with a heritage home? We’re really excited about this move.”

Emily Nichol, Operations Director at Southside, said, “It is important to our small, but mighty, team of event professionals that Southside provides an eclectic programme of events for the City. We are honoured to be Lincoln Beer Festival’s new home for 2025 and can’t wait to work with Mark and the team on one of the City’s key events of the year.”

Lincoln Beer Festival will take place at Southside on Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th May 2025.

We need your help

Well, it’s just over three weeks until the Lincoln Beer Festival opens and, at the moment, we are looking a bit thin on the ground for volunteers.  If you are planning to help, please complete your forms sooner rather than later, so you can put the Volunteer Manager’s mind at ease.

If you have already applied via email or web form, you will receive an email in the coming week or two.  Please encourage your friends and family to come along and help too.  As the saying goes, many hands make light work. 

Check this website over the next couple of days for a list of areas where we are short of volunteers.

Lincoln Beer Festival 2021 – At Your Local

In normal circumstances, this would be the week that local members of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) prepared for the Lincoln Beer Festival. And, at the weekend, they would be serving over 100 real ales from independent breweries across the country to thousands of thirsty customers.

Of course, for the second year running, the event cannot go ahead. However, the difference this year is that pubs are now open and serving cask ales. So we are encouraging as many members and non-members as possible to visit our great local pubs over the bank holiday weekend to discover the range of real ales on offer.

We will be compiling a list of the real ales and real ciders that will be available over the weekend and where to find them. We’ll be interested to see whether the number of different ales matches what would have been available at the Festival.

Aaron Joyce, chairman of Lincoln CAMRA, said, “What makes the British pub unique is delicious, fresh cask beer. It’s a drink you can only enjoy in the pub – or at a beer festival. However, millions of drinkers across the UK have not been able to enjoy it for much of the last twelve months. So now pubs have reopened, I’d like to encourage everyone to get down to their local pub for a fresh cask beer, preferably from a local brewery. You’ll not only get a great-tasting beer but you’ll be supporting local independent breweries and our struggling pub-industry.”

Lincoln Beer Festival 2021 – at-your-local-beers

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