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.

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.

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

Provisional Beer and Cider List

We now have the provisional list of Real Ales and Ciders that have been ordered for this year Festival. Below they are in table form and as a PDF to download.

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Do you want to be a Braintree Real Ale festival sponsor?

Braintree Real Ale festival relies not only on drinkers visiting the festival but also their sponsors.

We offer the opportunity to any business, organisation or individual to sponsor a barrel of beer or cider.

For £60 you would get your name on a barrel, two entry tickets and some beer vouchers. Your name will also appear on the festival booklet and website beer list.

If you are interested then please email us at sponsor@braintreebeerfestival.co.uk

 

We are now able to confirm that Sainsbury's Car Park is free after 6pm.

We can now announce that the 18th Braintree Real Ale Festival 2023 will be held on:
15th, 16th, 17th June.

Opening Times:

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