Brewery and CAMRA bars at the festival

CAMRA bars

At the 2011 Festival there were twelve CAMRA bars. These bars contained beer from alphabetically sorted Good Beer Guide regions (starting with Aberdeen & Grampian in the first and ending with Worcestershire in the last), therefore were great places to start if you wanted to find real ale from your favourite part of the country.

This year at the Great British Beer Festival, we continued our heroes theme and named the bars after medical heroes. In order to provide some practical support we invited the Sue Ryder Care to be our charity of the festival.

Find our more information about the names behind the bars.

There was a Young and Upcoming Breweries bar which offered some tasty brews from some of Britain's newest breweries, and the Real Ale in a Bottle Bar, offering a large number of the 1,300 bottle conditioned beers currently available to buy in the UK at present.

For lovers of real cider and perry a visit to the two Cider & Perry Bars was essential, where they found up to 100 real ciders and perries, all dispensed by gravity directly from the cask.

• Jenner Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Aberdeen & Grampian, Argyll & The Isles, Ayrshire & Arran, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumbria
• Harvey Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Channel Islands, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Durham
• Snow Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Devon, Dorset, Dumfries & Galloway, East Sussex, East Yorkshire, Edinburgh & Lothians
• Vane Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Essex, Glamorgan, Glasgow & Clyde Valley, Gloucestershire, Gwent, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire
• Gray Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Hampshire, Highlands & Western Isles, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire & Rutland
• Nightingale Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Loch Lomond, Stirling & The Trossachs, London, Merseyside
• Ross Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Manchester, North East Wales, North West Wales, Northamptonshire, Northern Isles, Northumberland
• Lawrence Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northern Ireland
• Black Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset
• Hastings Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tayside
• Lister Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Wales
• Fleming Bar
  Featuring Real Ale from West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire
• Parkinson Bar
  Young and Upcoming Breweries - sponsored by JD Wetherspoon
• Edwards Bar
  Featuring Real Ales in a Bottle
• Medawar Bar
  Freaturing Real Ciders and Perry (A-J)
• Crick Bar
  Freaturing Real Ciders and Perry (K-Z)

Brewery bars
Breweries from around the UK

In addition to the CAMRA bars a number of breweries from around the country were represented at the Festival with their own bar. These brewery bars are an exciting feature at the festival and stocked some of your favourite beers during the five day period. A number of these were selling new beers and running competitions.

Brewery Bars present at the Great British Beer Festival 2011:

Seacole Bar - B1

• Brains
• Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA)
• Thornbridge

Hopkins - P1

• Thwaites
• Wells and Young's
• William Worthington

Willis - P3

• Fuller's
• Greene King
• Marston's

Bières Sans Frontières
Beers from around the world

Bières Sans Frontières (BSF) Bars at GBBF continues to provide a showcase for the best beers from around the world, including beers from Germany, Belgium, Italy, USA, Czech Republic and The Netherlands.

Bars

There were four bars within BSF: the Belgian and Dutch Bar, which was sponsored by Eurolines, the German and Czech Bar, which was sponsored by Budweiser Budvar, the American Cask Ale Bar, which was sponsored by Sierra Nevada, Bar and the New World Beer Bar, which was sponsored by Brewers Association.

Go to the Bières Sans Frontières mini-site