The 13^th annual Bristol Beer Festival will take place at the Brunel Passenger Shed, Temple Meads, Bristol, on Friday 19 March and Saturday 20 March 2010. There will be approximately 120 real ales and 40 ciders & perries. Food will be available at all sessions supplied by Proper Pasties and Trethowan’s Dairy. The ticket price includes admission, programme, a commemorative pint glass (marked with half and third pint lines) and £5 worth of tokens. Card-carrying CAMRA members will also receive a voucher for a free half-pint of beer, cider or perry. Admission is by advance ticket only and tickets are strictly non refundable.  

Anyone that has attended our previous festivals will appreciate just how popular they are and that they are organised and run entirely by unpaid local CAMRA activists. The huge demand for tickets resulted in our taking a new approach to ticket sales that has proved successful for the last two festivals, so we are using the same method for the 2010 festival.  

There will be organised sales sessions for tickets on two dates as follows:

Members only on Sunday 7th February. Tickets go on sale at the Old Fish Market, Baldwin Street, Bristol from 11am until 2pm. Tickets will only be sold to card-carrying CAMRA members at this session with a maximum of two tickets for each valid CAMRA card presented (anyone joining CAMRA on the day will also be able to purchase two festival tickets).

On Sunday 21st February tickets will go on sale at the Commercial Rooms, Corn Street Bristol from 11am to 2pm. Tickets will be on sale to everyone (including CAMRA members) at this session up to a maximum of four tickets per person.

Simultaneous ticket sales sessions will take place with the same rules at Off The Rails at Weston-super-Mare train station on both 7th and 21st February.

Tickets will not be held back, so once they have sold out they are really all gone. If there are any tickets remaining after these sessions they will be put on general sale at the Seven Stars, Thomas Lane, Bristol from Tuesday 23rd February.

As we did for the 2009 festival we are including £5 worth of tokens in the ticket price to speed up the festival entry process and stop customers having to queue twice.

Ticket details and prices are as follows. Please bring the correct cash to the ticket sales sessions as we will not be able to accept cheques, credit cards or £50 notes.

Tickets are strictly non refundable, however at the relevant session of the festival you could still claim the included glass, programme and tokens if you had an extra ticket that was no longer required.

We strongly advise people to keep an eye on this website as this will feature any extra or updated information about the ticket sales procedure and updates as to ticket availability, as well as the beer and cider lists as they become available.

Please note!

Due to changes in the venue, the entrance to the beer festival will now be at the bottom of the station approach - see the map below: