The wait is over beer lovers! It's the start of Cheltenham Beer Week

We've been raving about the Cheltenham Beer Week for some time now and the big day is fast approaching here!  Until the 22nd September over 30 venues will celebrate Cheltenham Beer Week.  Bars, pubs, restaurants, bottle shops and brewers have signed up to host a wide variety of beery events. You can expect ‘meet the brewer’ evenings, food and beer matching, tutored tastings, beer quizzes, music and more!

So how can you get involved?

Detailed information on venues, events, times and all the Ale Trails can be found at http://cheltenhambeerweek.co.uk, with links to social media for the latest news updates.

What’s on during Cheltenham Beer Week?

There are opportunities to meet great brewers and learn more about beer for example at the ‘Tiley's Tap Takeover’ at the Railway pub, New Street. It’s a chance to taste six beers brewed at Tiley's (the Salutation Inn at Ham) and meet legendary brewer Jonny Mills, one of Europe’s finest brewers.

Dog lovers can try the ‘Barking Mad Ale Trail’. Go ‘walkies’ between the Exmouth Arms, the Strand and the Royal (Charlton Kings) and then, by completing some fun challenges and picking up some clues between the pubs, owners will receive a free pint of beer and a refreshing bottle of canine friendly ‘dog beer’.

There are two events at Cheltenham Motor Club, the ‘Big Wheel of Cheese’ (a 9 cheese, 9 beer/cider masterclass) and the ‘10th Anniversary Wheel Ale Festival’.

You can drink and still stay fit by practising ‘Beer Yoga’ at the Strand. Alternatively, visit the launch of the annual ‘International Rainbow Project 2019’ at Favourite Beers, where seven selected UK brewers (including Cheltenham’s DEYA) have collaborated with seven highly respected US West Coast brewers. Try mixing your own beer/spirit combo at the ‘Boiler Maker BBQ’ event (with Cotswold Brewing) at the Outdoor Inn.

Win Prizes

Cheltenham Beer Week maps show all of the participating venues on a series of five ‘Ale Trails’. By simply collecting stamps, at trail venues, you could win beery prizes for each completed trail. Ale trails are a great way to find out about pubs, clubs, bars, breweries and shops, which you may otherwise never visit. Maps are available at all participating venues.

Beer Week Collaboration Beer

Eight Gloucestershire breweries have joined together (at Stroud Brewery) to brew ‘Star Session IPA’, a special organic beer for Cheltenham Beer Week. In addition to Stroud Brewery these are Battledown, Brewhouse and Kitchen (Cheltenham), Corinium Ales, Cotswold Brewing, DEYA, Gloucester Brewery and Goffs Brewery.

Star Session IPA is an unfined 4.4% organic beer which is suitable for vegans. Hazy, rather than crystal clear, the beer has a crisp flavour which is perfectly balanced with aromatic hops (El Dorado, Simco and Idaho) and dry hopped to give a rounded and very moreish session IPA. It can be found at any of the participating venues during Beer Week, either as cask real ale, in cans or as draught keg.

Profits from the sale of Star Session IPA will go to the groundbreaking National Star college, whose students (once again) designed the graphics for the collaboration beer. Last year’s Beer Week raised £7,800 for National Star.

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We hope you thoroughly enjoy Cheltenham Beer Week and as always if you share photos on social media tag us in on @VisitChelt for Twitter and @VisitCheltenham for both Instagram and Facebook.  We will share our favourite photos. Cheers in advance!

Check out more things to do in Cheltenham this weekend.