Flashback: images from last year’s festival. Photographs: Lucy Forrester

 

The New Wave will be the theme for this year’s Whitelock’s and The Turk’s Head Beer Festival, in Leeds, being staged from July 26-29.

This year’s festival will celebrate the New Wave of UK brewers, by showcasing the firm favourites who are producing modern, progressive beers.

During the weekend, Whitelock’s and The Turk’s Head will have up to 68 festival beers on draught across both venues, with a rotation of 28 different beers (cask and keg) on tap at one time.

The festival beer offering includes very special cask beers and incredibly rare brews from the likes of Cloudwater, Deya and Odyssey, alongside more than 30 other innovative breweries, such as Verdant, Little Earth Project, Vibrant Forest, Zapato and Anthology.

Plus, festival-goers can enjoy drinking out of Whitelock’s special commemorative glasses, which have been customised for the event.

Alongside the beer offering, there will be festival gins to sample, as well as DJs playing in Turk’s Head Yard on Friday and Saturday night. Italian American street food heroes Capish? are returning, all the way from their residency at Mason & Company in London.