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Restormel: St Austell Brewery Celtic Beer Festival

The 7th annual Celtic Beer Festival at St Austell Brewery takes place on Saturday, December 3.


Now firmly established as a key date in Cornwall’s social diary, the festival is one of the county’s biggest and best parties of the year and is expected to attract hundreds of real ale and music fans from across the South West.

This year’s event promises to be as atmospheric as ever, set in the unique surroundings of the old wine cellars and vaults beneath the Victorian brewery.

The festival is organized and staffed by volunteers from the brewery, together with suppliers, with all money raised going to local charities in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset through the St Austell Brewery charitable Trust.

As well as the opportunity to sample St Austell Brewery’s own award winning ales, there will be a great range of real ales donated by local and national brewers across Cornwall and the British Isles – and St Austell’s head brewer Roger Ryman has been busy working his magic to create more than a dozen special beers just for the day.

More than 80 brewery staff will be on hand to run the day and make sure guests have a brilliant time. This year for the first time all food will be provided by a team of St Austell Brewery’s pub managers led by St Catering Development Manager, Paul Drye – all using fresh Cornish produce and some using beer in the ingredients. The team will be putting in all their efforts for free and all food profits will go to local charities.

Music is an important part of the day and the line up includes a combination of local and in-house bands offering a mixture of rock, dance and soul. The line-up features:

12- 2pm Cunning Old Celts
2.30-3.15 SOS
3.30-4.00 Save from Oblivion
4.15-4.45 Paris
6.00-8.00 Horseband
9-11 Sex Slaves from Hell

St Austell Brewery Head of Marketing Jeremy Mitchell said: “The festival is always a fantastic event, with an unbeatable atmosphere and something that everyone at the Brewery is looking forward to.�

The St Austell Brewery Celtic Beer Festival takes place on Saturday December 3 from 11am to 11pm in the vaults below St Austell Brewery.

Tickets £5.00 per person - includes free commemorative glass.