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The 2026 Braintree Real Ale Festival is now only days away.

The beers and ciders are ordered and the team are ready for the setup.

This years beer and cider list are available to look at here.

See you on the 11th, 12th and 13th June.

The BRAF Team.

Tomorrow is setup day for the 20th Braintree Real Ale Festival.

This year we have:

  • 17 Real Ales from Essex breweries
  • 16 Real Ales from across the midlands
  • 14 Ciders

With beer styles ranging from golden through to Porters; and traditional through to flavoured ciders. We are sure that we have something that you will like.

The provisional beer and clider list can be downloaded from here.

We hope to see you there.

The 2025 Braintree Real Ale Festival beer and cider list has now been published. You can find it here.

See you all soon.

Less than three weeks until the start of the 2025 Braintree Real Ale Festival.

As always the festival will run from Thursday to Saturday, 5th to 7th June, at the Braintree Institute, Bocking End.

Thursday 11am - 11pm
Friday 11am - 11pm
Saturday 11am - 9pm

We look forward to seeing you there.

Braintree Real Ale Festival 2024 Ready To Go

So after all the planning and a day setting up the 19th Braintree Real Ale Festival is setup and ready to go.

This years beer and cider list can be found here and downloadable copy from here.

We will be open from 11am on Thursday 6th June.

Thursday 11am - 11pm
Friday 11am - 11pm
Saturday 11am - 9pm

We look forward to seeing you there.

Sponsor A Beer

Each year local businesses kindly sponsor our casks of beer and cider. It is through these generous acts that we are able to raise funds for local charities.

If you would like to sponsor a beer then it is just £70. This gets you your name on the cask; two entrance tickets, with glasses; and some beer tokens.

If you are interested please contact Lion Jim Cave info@braintreebeerfestival.co.uk

 

So, at the time of writing this post, it is less than 39 days until the opening of the 19th Braintree Real Ale Festival.

The beer/cider list is currently being finalised and it is hoped that a provsional list will be published soon.

 

We can now announce that the 19th Braintree Real Ale Festival 2024 will be held on:
6th, 7th and 8th June.

Opening Times:

Thursday 11am - 11pm
Friday 11am - 11pm
Saturday 11am - 9pm

Entrance cost is £2.00 ph (Free for CAMRA Members).

Glass cost £3.00, refundable unpon exit.

As always the festival will be at the The Braintree Insitute. (Formally known as Bocking Arts Theatre).

We look forward to seeing you there.

So Braintree Real Ale Festival 2023 is done and dusted, and put away in to storage for another year ☹️

A big thank you to everyone who attended and made the festival so much fun. It was a blast, and we hope you had a good time.

Thank you to our venue hosts at The Institute, to Hopleaf our caterers, to our Real Ale partners from CAMRA, and to all our wonderful sponsors who give us such amazing support each year.

Hopefully we'll be back again next year and look forward to seeing you all then, if not before. Don't forget you can keep up to date with everything else that we do as a club on our Facebook page, Braintree Lions Club

Much love,

Lions Club of Braintree

The 18th Braintree Real Ale Festival Is Ready To Go

It is that time of year. We have had all the beer and cider delivered. It is all racked and labelled. The cooling is on and we wait it all to settle and be ready to drink.

We open at 11am Thursday, Friday and Saturday. General admission £4 including a glass, £2 for Lion and CMARA members. £2 refund for return of the glass.

The final beer/cider list can be found here: Tasting-Notes-2023