Worcester CAMRA
13th Beer, Cider & Perry Festival 2012

Beer, Cider, Perry and more...

The festival is all about giving you a great choice of the finest traditional beers, quality cider and perry, and fruit wines and juices to enjoy. In the three days we are open, about twelve thousand people will be sampling over two hundred different types of beer and more than one hundred ciders and perries.

Traditional beer takes a lot of looking after, starting a couple of days before we open, and cider and perry needs to be collected from small producers spread across the country. This all means we only get one chance to get the order right - if a beer runs out there's no way we can restock quickly.

So will we run out of beer? That's not the plan - we actually order a lot more beer than we think we will sell - but we can't guarantee it. If it looks like we are running low, we will let you know when you get to the site.

Will all the different beers, cider and perry be available at all times? When we open, everything that is ready will be on sale - we don't hold any beers back for later sessions. Being a natural product, some beers don't settle as expected and so a few won't be ready from the start, but we will make them available as soon as they are ready.

For the most popular beers we order several casks, bringing them on one after the other - so that's why some casks are marked "duplicate beer". But despite this some beers will undoubtedly prove popular and run out before others. Even then, we aim to always have a range of different styles to try - milds, stouts, golden ales, lagers, strong ales and so on. By the way, as the programme explains we colour code the cask labels to help you identify the style.

Also, with so many beers on order we expect about half a dozen won't get delivered. Where this happens our suppliers will provide us with a substitute, but it will be too late for the printed programme so we post notices around the site listing the changes.

As we get closer to the festival, this is where we will list the beers and real draught ciders and perries that we plan to offer at the festival.

Help us select the beers for the festival - enter our Suggest-A-Beer competition...

Help us select the cider and perry for the festival - enter our Suggest-A-Cider (or Perry) competition...

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The Beers

To Be Announced Later

The Ciders & Perries

To Be Announced Later