Left to right: Greg Wells, founder of Bristol Craft Beer Festival; Josh Eggleton, Eat Drink Bristol Fashion co-founder; and Oli Grassi, development chef alongside Josh
Organisers of the Bristol Craft Beer Festival have teamed up with the Bristol foodie faction Eat Drink Bristol Fashion and its co-founder Josh Eggleton to bring a mouthwatering food offering to this year’s festival, at Motion from September 15 to 17.
Bringing together some of the most popular and delicious establishments in the city, hungry revellers at this year’s festival will be able to chow down on food from RudeDog, Salt & Malt and Eat Drink Bristol Fashion, with further outlets to be announced.
Bristol Craft Beer Festival organiser, Greg Wells, said: “We wanted our second year in Bristol to be a big one. We wanted to really put our marker on the city and lay on a great event that will really appeal to local food and drink fans, so teaming up the EDBF crew was a no-brainer.
“They’re one of the most established independent food organisations in the city and that really appeals to us as an organisation. We want to celebrate the finest beer in Bristol, but we also want to celebrate the best food in the city, and with these guys on board we’re certainly going to do that.”
Josh Eggleton added: “This is a really exciting project to be involved in as the beer scene in Bristol is growing rapidly. We first started Eat Drink Bristol Fashion as a festival to celebrate the best food the South West has to offer, and now it’s great to bring that ethos to something new, in Bristol Craft Beer Festival.
“Over the past few years Bristol has developed into what is arguably the foodie capital of the UK. We’ve become renowned for great independent restaurants. During this time we’ve also developed a really great beer scene, which has been a bit of a well kept secret until the last year or so.”
The breweries
Bristol’s and the South West’s finest breweries will all feature at this year’s Craft Beer Festival and organisers recently announced a collaboration brew between Wiper & True, Left Handed Giant, Deya and Verdant. Further breweries from across the UK will include London’s Beavertown, Verdant from Falmouth, South Bermondsey’s Partizan, Magic Rock from Huddersfield, Thornbridge from Derbyshire, Siren from Wokingham, North Brew from Leeds, Scotland’s Tempest and DEYA from up the road in Cheltenham. From overseas, Belgium will be represented by Brasserie De La Senne, Sweden by Beerbliotek, Holland by Oedipus and Denmark by Mikkeller.
Entry to the festival is purchased in sessions. Each session lasts for five hours, either noon to 5pm or 7pm to midnight, on Saturday and Sunday. If the beer line-up isn’t enough, there will also be DJ sets from turntablist, producer and cut-and-paste master DJ Yoda, one of the world’s most respected DJs, Norman Jay MBE, indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club, Olugbenga from electronic floor-filler four-piece Metronomy, and Bristol-based Sip the Juice.
Tickets are available at www.bristolcraftbeerfestival.co.uk and cost £38, which includes entry to the event, unlimited pours of whatever beer, from any brewer, access to the people that make the beer themselves, a free beer tasting glass and a programme.
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