Magna Real Ale Festival

[Andy C 85]

Magna real ale festival is this coming weekend Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th June.

Open from 6pm Thur/Fri and midday Saturday.

 

Features around 250 beers on handpump plus cider, wine, live music and more.

 

Shuttle bus available from Meadowhall Interchange for £2 return.

 

More information and discounted ticket sales online http://www.magnarealale.co.uk/

Edited June 9, 2015 by Andy C

[belperite 11]

Magna real ale festival is this coming weekend

 

http://www.magnarealale.co.uk/

 

Yep, going on Friday evening, after the annual trip around some of Rotherham's pubs

[DnAuK 10]

Magna real ale festival is this coming weekend Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th June.

Open from 6pm Thur/Fri and midday Saturday.

 

Features around 250 beers on handpump plus cider, wine, live music and more.

 

Shuttle bus available from Meadowhall Interchange for £2 return.

 

More information and discounted ticket sales online http://www.magnarealale.co.uk/

 

Hope it's a good one. Will definitely be the best place to go on Saturday with the predicted storms and downpours (the weather is definitely the right way around these two consecutive weekends!). I just wonder whether people are actually going to go with the 'Baa-Watch' theme and come in beach gear. My opinion is that it's in a chuffin steelworks that has never seen the sun! It will still be bleeding cold!

 

Was reading the other day that Magna seems to be up the financial creek without a paddle... so this could be the last one? :c(

[Speckled Hen 10]

Magna real ale festival is this coming weekend Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th June.

Open from 6pm Thur/Fri and midday Saturday.

 

Features around 250 beers on handpump plus cider, wine, live music and more.

 

Shuttle bus available from Meadowhall Interchange for £2 return.

 

More information and discounted ticket sales online http://www.magnarealale.co.uk/

 

It sounds like a plan.

[belperite 11]

So, it's that time of year again to ask about the Rotherham Beer Fest at Magna - Google-foo is failing me, the usual pages don't seem to have been updated. Does anyone know when it will be?

[Stoatwobbler 10]

So, it's that time of year again to ask about the Rotherham Beer Fest at Magna - Google-foo is failing me, the usual pages don't seem to have been updated. Does anyone know when it will be?

 

I'm wondering when Rotherham CAMRA are holding their festival at the New York Stadium

Edited January 5, 2016 by Stoatwobbler
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[Andy C 85]

I'm wondering when Rotherham CAMRA are holding their festival at the New York Stadium

 

From what I've heard they aren't - the football club has been messing them around with dates too much and they are now looking for a new venue.

 

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Manchester CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival

Wed 20 – Sat 23 Jan

 

Another new venue for Manchester’s annual winter beer & cider festival – Manchester Central exhibition hall, a former railway station with a grand barrelled roof! The festival will feature over 500 of the finest beers, ciders and perries. They’ll be selecting the very best beers from the UKs burgeoning craft beer brewery scene alongside a massive range of traditional ciders & perries. The Bière Sans Frontières bars will bring an even larger range of draught and bottled beers from innovative & exciting breweries around the world.

 

The festival opens from 4pm on the Wednesday then midday the rest of the week. Closing time is 10:30pm Wednesday to Friday and 7pm Saturday. CAMRA members enjoy free entry on Wednesday and Thursday, discounted entry Friday and Saturday.

 

Deansgate railway station and Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink stop are close to the venue, from Sheffield change trains at Manchester Piccadilly for a local train or tram to Deansgate.

 

More info: mancbeerfest.uk

 

CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival

Wed 17 – Sat 20 Feb

 

The National Winter Ales Festival is back in Derby for 2016, again at Derby College’s Roundhouse campus.

 

It’s a beautiful and magnificent series of truly iconic buildings that have a world-renowned status in railway history. The Roundhouse is the World’s Oldest Roundhouse built in 1839, following £48 million renovation, it has been returned to its former glory with original features restored and complemented by dazzling new artworks. This stunning Grade II* listed building opened its doors in late 2009 and has already played host to a wide range of prestigious corporate events. It was originally developed in 1839 by four rival rail companies, including North Midland Railway (NMR) for whom George Stephenson and his son Robert were engineers.

 

‘The Roundhouse’, being circular, will have stillage all around it, serving real ale, cider, perry, continental beer and mead. There is a corridor leading to another stillaged area known as ‘The Carriage Shop Theatre’ which will include the Champion Winter Beer of Britain beers to be judged in the 4 style categories. A range of fantastic live bands will be entertaining us in an additional marquee.

 

The venue is right next to Derby railway station (use the Pride Park exit at the rear rather than the main concourse exit), fast trains run from Sheffield up to 4 times an hour with a journey time of about 35 minutes.

 

The festival is open 4pm to 11pm on the Wednesday and 11am to 11pm Thursday to Saturday. More info: http://www.nwaf.org.uk.

 

SIBA BEER X

16th-19th March

 

The Festival of Beer will showcase over 250 of the very best cask, keg, bottled and canned beers that Britain's craft brewers have to offer. This festival is run by the brewers and therefore guarantees to serve you quality beer in the very best of condition. There will also be great music, delicious food and live sport to enjoy over the weekend.

 

The venue is Ice Sheffield, close to the Sheffield Arena tram stop.

 

More info: http://www.beerx.org

Edited January 5, 2016 by Andy C

[belperite 11]

Heard anything about Magna on the grapevine Andy?

[Andy C 85]

Heard anything about Magna on the grapevine Andy?

 

All quiet on that front so far

[belperite 11]

Just seen a post from 7th Jan on Rotherham CAMRA's facebook pages that there is "nothing planned so far"

[haddy 10]

Been trying to get some info from Camra but they don't seem to be fourth coming. It's a shame as it always used to be at the same time now doesn't seem very planned

[DnAuK 10]

RIP Magna? Hardly a surprise given the financial trouble they are in. But such a shame - one of my favourite festivals of the year. Loved the West Yorkshire room. Like drinking in some American warehouse rock club. Even managed a pint on the Bombardier Bus last year. Tho not drinking Bombardier, obviously!