Chorlton Beer and Cider Festival 2012
Trafford & Hulme CAMRA
Campaigning for real ale, pubs & drinkers' rights since 1977
Beer Festivals
Trafford & Hulme CAMRA currently organise the Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival in conjunction with St Clement's Church, Chorlton
The festival offers visitors the opportunity to sample a much wider selection of real ales than you could do at even the best pub. All Trafford & Hulme festivals also feature a range of traditional cider & perries.
The eight Greater Manchester branches of CAMRA join together to organise the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival, the innaugaural festival being arranged for January 2014 at the iconic Manchester Velodrome at the National Cycling Centre.
In addition, many members of the branch volunteer at other CAMRA festivals including the The Great British Beer Festival.
All CAMRA festivals rely on the efforts of CAMRA volunteers to run. Volunteering to work at beer festivals is great fun and an excellent way to make new friends.
Friday 6th July 2012: 5pm - 10.30pm
80+ Cask Ales (max 65 at one time)
Including Champion Speciality Beer Of Britain (North West Round) Competition with Champion announced Friday evening.
Children's activities Saturday 2pm - 7pm
Food provided by Kro and Tampopo
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Chorlton Beer Of The Festival 2011
Mark Dade receives the award from Heather Airlie
The Beer of the Festival for Chorlton Beer Festival 2011 as voted for by the festival visitors, was Rum Porter from Newton Heath's Boggart Hole Clough Brewery. The award was presented to brewer Mark Dade after an interesting and entertaining visit to the brewery. No new-comer to accolades, Mark has already won 16 similar awards for the classic smooth porter with added rum, including Beer of the Festival at Leeds and Peterborough.
The day was completed by a few beers and a buffet at the Micro Bar in the Arndale Market Hall, the Boggart tap.
Enlarged festival drank dry
The 7th Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival once again saw drinkers descend on St Clements Church in their thousands, drinking the festival dry 45 minutes before planned closing on Saturday night.
Organisers ordered 20% more beer, cider & perry than in 2010 but even torrential rain on opening night, Friday 8th July, could not drive the Chorlton community away. Over 3000 pints of ale & 800 of traditional cider & perry were sold on Friday alone, at a rate of almost 15 pints a minute.
Visitors had the choice of 40 locally brewed beers from the CAMRA LocAle bar plus a further 22 sourced from outside of the local area on the second bar opposite. The LocAle selection included festival specials "Clement Summer" from Macclesfield's Bollington Brewery and "STout CLEMENT", brewed by the Bootleg Brewing Company just 200m down St Clements Road at The Horse & Jockey pub.
Chorlton Festival Beer List 2011
After last year's sell out, this year's Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival will have 20% more cask ale than last year.
These will be split over two bars. The LocAle bar will feature beers from local breweries, while the "FarAle" bar will feature some of the best breweries from the 700 in the rest of the UK. For the first time at Chorlton, some beers will be served via handpump, with the rest served by gravity.
The list of beers delivered to the festival is given below.
We cannot guarantee the availability of any particular beer at any given time.
Chorlton 2011 - Cider & Perry List
Here's the provisional list of cider & perries for this year's festival.
CIDER | ||
| ABV | NOTES | |
DRY | ||
| Biddenden Bushels | 6.00% | |
| Hartlands Islay Malt Cask Smokey | 7.50% | Whisky Cask |
| New Forest Kingston Black | 7.00% | Single Variety |
| Tardebrigge | 6.50% | |
| Virtual Orchard Hardcore | 6.50% | Gold |
MEDIUM | ||
| Gwatkins Kingston Black | 7.50% | Single Variety |
| Gwatkins Stoke Red | 7.50% | Single Variety |
| Hecks Port Wine Of Glastonbury | 6.50% | Single Variety |
| Ralphs | 7.50% | |
| Rathays Red Donkey | 6.00% | |
| Sandford Orchards | 6.00% | |
| Winkleigh Sams | 6.00% | |
| Gwatkins Yarlington Mill Rum Cask | 7.50% | Rum |
SWEET | ||
| Broadoak Moonshine | 7.50% | |
| Broadoak Old Bristolian | 7.50% | |
| Carey Organic | 6.00% | Certified Organic |
| Countryman | 6.50% | |
| Double Vision | 7.40% | |
| Gregg's Pit Brown/Kingston Black & Sweet Coppin | 7.50% | |
| Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon | 7.30% | Silver |
| Hartland | 6.00% | Bronze |
| Mad Hatter Nine Holes | 6.70% | Made In Stockport |
| Mad Hatter Sunny Bank | 7.30% | Made In Stockport |
| Springherne | 6.50% | |
PERRY | ||
DRY | ||
| Hecks Blakney Red | 6.50% | Single Variety |
MEDIUM | ||
| Olivers | 6.50% | Joint Bronze |
| Ralphs | 6.00% | Joint Bronze |
| Rathays Painted Lady | 5.00% | Gold |
| Rathays Sutton St Nicholas | 6.40% | |
| Springherne | 6.30% | |
SWEET | ||
| Broadoak | 7.50% | |
| Double Vision Impeared Vision | 7.40% | |
| Gwynt y Ddraig Malvern Hills | 7.00% | |
| Gwyny y Ddraig Two Trees | 4.50% | Silver |
| Note. List is preliminary. Final range available will depend on actual deliveries. Cider & Perry at the Festival might differ to this in strength and taste. | ||
Beer list to follow shortly.
Chorlton Beer Festival 2011
7th Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival
St Clements Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Friday 8th July 2011 - 5pm - 10.30pm
Saturday 9th July 2011 - 2pm - 10.30pm
More beer, cider and perry than ever before - 20% more than in 2010.
New simplified entry system
More room in beer hall
The Chorlton Beer Festival 2010 : Friday 2nd/Saturday 3rd July
The 6th Chorlton Beer Festival
This year over 50 real ales will be available to sample along with a collection of at least 30 traditional ciders.
On Saturday afternoon (until 7.00pm) children are welcome and receive free entry. A range of bands will be playing live music throughout the festival and even pouring rain has failed to dampen the spirits in previous years.
The Chorlton Beer Festival is run by St Clement's Church Chorlton in keeping with the church's desire to become an integral part of Chorlton life. The beer festival is organised and run by members of the church with the aid of Trafford and Hulmel Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) branch.
The Festival has its own website http://chorltonbeerfestival.org.uk/
Chorlton Beer Festival - 11th & 12th July 2008
Following the success of the previous three year’s festivals, St Clements Church have enrolled Trafford and Hulme Branch of CAMRA to ensure the quality and range of the beers continue to develop. Although T&H have been instrumental in organising, managing and serving the beer for the previous festivals, this is the first time that the relationship has become official, meaning that the event has now hit the CAMRA diary.