We are delighted to be holding Chorlton Beer Festival again and want you to join us

In 2005, little did Chorlton locals know that the small beer festival they organised, featuring just 25 beers, mostly from local breweries would lay the foundations for an event that has gone on to welcome over 40,000 visitors over 20 years.

Five beer suppliers who were originally there in 2005 will be back, including: Rochdale’s Pictish Brewing Company, Alchemist Ale and Brewers’ Gold, True Grit from Millstone of Mossley, Wobbly Bob from Heywood’s Phoenix Brewery, Landslide from North Wales’s Facer’s Brewery and even Chimera IPA from Downton in Wiltshire.

The festival, which started as a fundraising event for a local church, has helped see St Clement’s buildings totally transformed into an accessible community hub that offers three community spaces available for hire, hosting over 30 regular weekly classes and groups and providing space for Chorlton and Didsbury Foodbank and Face to Face Community Counselling.

The Revd Ken Flood, Rector of St Clements, said: "We are delighted to be holding Chorlton Beer Festival again with our friends from CAMRA. As well as providing much needed funding for our extensive community work, we like to think it also counteracts the image of religion being all about rules stopping people having fun. Instead of a ‘Thou shalt not’, the Beer Fest is a great big ‘Thou shalt!’”

The 2025 event will see over 150 different beers poured alongside 50 different ciders. Revd Flood will be manning The Vicar’s Gin bar, there will be live music on Friday and Saturday and a range of street food vendors to keep the visitors fed.

Tickets and more information are available from the festival website www.chorltonbeerfestival.org.uk