Welcome to the Keswick Beer Festival Website
Keswick Rugby Club and Keswick Lions Club are immensely grateful to everyone who helped make the Beer Festival 2011 such a great success - the visitors, the sponsors (in particular Thwaites Brewery), the volunteers, the bands, the security and medical teams (who both had a quiet time), the suppliers, etc, etc. Once again, on preliminary figures, a record sum has been raised for the activities of both Clubs.
A few statistics:
- 6,000 people visited the Beer Festival
- Over 250 barrels of beer, lager and cider were available to sample
- Endless sausage baguettes, beef burgers, pork rolls and chicken curries were consumed
- 6 live bands played
- The sun shone - most of the time!
Keswick Beer Festival 2012
The dates have been confirmed for the 2012 Keswick Beer Festival. Next
year's festival will be on
Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd June 2012.
Friday - 5pm to 11pm - £13
Saturday - 11am to 11pm - (SOLD OUT)
THE TICKETS WILL GO ON GENERAL SALE VIA THE WEB ON 1ST DECEMBER.
Please be aware that it is the weekend of the Spring Bank Holiday (Monday 4th) and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (Tuesday 5th), which means a very busy weekend in Keswick!
Make sure to book your accommodation preferably from one of our sponsoring accommodation providers early!
2012 - Photo Competition
This year, Keswick Beer Festival is giving you the chance to win tickets for next year's Keswick Beer Festival, by submitting your photographs of the 2011 Keswick Beer Festival. Go to the Photos Page for full details on how you can win!
New Sponsor from 2011 - Thwaites Wainwright
We were pleased to welcome leading Lancashire brewer Daniel Thwaites and the brewery's flagship ale 'Wainwright' as the headline sponsor for the Keswick Beer Festival from June 2011 for three years, and the following statement received from Thwaites indicates that they enjoyed it as well!.
Thwaites were thoroughly delighted to support the 2011 Keswick Festival and more importantly see so much money raised once again for the participating charities. It was great to see our Thwaites Wainwright golden ale going down so well and along with our other great beers we created a “little bit” of Lancashire in Cumbria. Something that maybe Alfred Wainwright himself might have enjoyed.
Visitors drunk us dry and the entire Thwaites team loved every minute of it and can’t wait for 2012. Cheers!
Entertainment 2012
Please see below the various bands which will be playing at the 2012 Keswick Beer Festival.
| Friday 1st June 2012 | |
| First Band: The Mass | www.myspace.com/themasscarlisle |
| Second Band: The Dogs of Tralee | www.thedogsoftralee.com |
| Third Band: The Moobs | www.themoobs.com |
| Saturday 2nd June 2012 | |
| Afternoon: Holding Dominion | www.facebook.com/thetees |
| First Band: AWOL | www.facebook.com/awoluk |
| Second Band: Audio Tracer | www.facebook.com/pages/Audio-Tracer/123768801032540 |
| Third Band: Flash Harry | www.flash-harry.co.uk |