Carlisle Beer & Cider Festival

31/03/2026

Our 2025 Beer of the Festival strikes gold

Døkkr takes Gold 🏆
Champion Beer of Britain 2026 (NW Regional)
Dark, smoky, and forged for the bold... taproom @ Easter do it!

26/01/2026

Wigan Beer Festival

01/01/2026

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16/12/2025

Get free entry to our Festival next October and every CAMRA festival!

🍻 A CAMRA membership earns you free entry to all CAMRA run festivals next year!

🎁 If you know a mate or family member that loves beer, then gifting them a membership is the only present you should consider this year.

➡️ Gift a membership here: https://orlo.uk/habVq

08/12/2025

On Saturday 6 December 2025 members of Solway CAMRA visited Orm’s Brewhouse at Ormside Hall - home of our Beer of the Festival 2025 - Dokkr.

The stout was in great form as were two new beers - a liquorice porter and a medieval gruit.

06/11/2025

Forth Valley CAMRA

04/11/2025

Solway Camra would like to say a massive thank you to everyone that supported our Beer Festival between 23th and 25th October 2025.

As a team effort by all our visitors we raised an incredible £506.09 for Eden Valley Hospice providing specialist care for adults in north Cumbria who have life limiting conditions and Jigsaw, Cumbria's Children's Hospice providing day to day care, support and activities to children and young people from across the county living with a life limiting illness.
https://www.edenvalleyhospice.org/support-us/donate/
Hope to see you all again next year.

01/11/2025

If you like the darkside you’ll love next weekend at Kendal…

Here’s the beer list so far! Subject to change and some beers might not be on at the same time:

The Brewery Arts Centre
Gan Yam = R2 Deep Brew black forest stout 5.8% (cask)
INK dry stout by Gan Yam 4% (cask)
Hoof coffee milk stout by FarmYard Brew Co 4.3% (keg)

The Barrel House
silverback stout from weetwod 4.4 %
Smoked porter from okells 5%
Swan black from Bowness bay 4.6%

The Factory Tap .factory.tap
Brass Castle Affo-Gatto coffee and vanilla stout 6% - Cask
Fyne Ales Mills & Hills imperial Stout 9.5% - Cask
Northern Monkey Film Club Popcorn Stout 6% - Cask
Gan Yam Tar Porter 7% - Cask
Loch Lomond/Abbeydale Rubus Black Cranachan Porter 6% - Keg
Loch Lomond/Northern Monk Deadpoint Imperial Stout 11% halves and thirds only - Keg
Brass Castle Bad Kitty Vanilla Porter 5.5% - Keg

Fell Bar, Kendal .kendal
Parkin Stout 5.2% - Abbeydale - Keg
Necessary Evil 13% - Necessary Evil - Keg
Cumbrian Dry Stout 4.2% - Fell Brewery - Keg
Export Stout 6.8% - Fell Brewery - Cask
Plague Doctor 4.5% - Tartarus - Cask
Slate 5.5% - Fell Brewery x Castle Rock - Can
Check This Stout 0.5% - Below Brew Co. - Can
Mompessons Calling 11% - Eyam Brewery - Sharing Bottle

Handsome Bar
Lancaster Black 4.5% - Lancaster Brewery - Cask

98 Highgate
Chocolate stout 5.2% - Fell Brewery
C43PO, carajillo stout, coffee and licor 43 (Spanish orange liquer) - Gan Yam

Indie Craft
TBC - Lakes Brew - Cask
Kernel - London Nitro Stout 4.5% - Keg
Rivington/3 Sons - Every Word is True 10.5% (Islay Whisky Barrel Aged) - Keg
Prism - Strange Casualties 12% (Coconut Imperial Stout) - Keg
Salikatt - Cloud 9 Limited - 13.3% (Bourbon Barrel Aged) - Keg

The Miles Thompson
Dry stone Stout 3.4%- Hawkshead
Jems stout 4.3% - Great Newsome

The New Union
Ball of fat 5.9% Kerrs Farm Brewery
Dokkr 5% - Orms brewhouse
four grain stout 4.1% - Tempest crests
Derwent mild 3.4% - Jennings
The unforgiven 4.2% - West walls brewery
Silky stout 5% - Loch Lomond
2xLakes casks tbc
Duplicaty 7.6% - Logan beck
Keg lakes brew co om Nom Nom Nom 8.4%
Lakes brew co don’t make me run 8.5%
it ain’t easy been cheesy 8.4% - Farm yard
Tempest banandy Warhol chocolate banana stout 8.4%
Vault city espresso martini 13%
Vault city drips and pieces 13%
DuPont monks stout 5.2% keg

The Ring O Bells

Cask

Wensleydale Brewery
Sugar Man - First Gold -Demerara Sugar Porter 4.9%

Logan Beck Brewing
Pistachiobi Wan Kenobi - Pistachio Gelato stout with a hint marzipan 6.6%

Gan Yam
Legend- Jura Whisky stout
Return of The Stones - Damson stout 7.5%

Orms Brew House
dokkr - Smoky Coffee-Chocolate Stout 5.0%

Keg
Ring o Bells stout 4.2%

The Rifleman’s
Skylark Stout 6% - Three Acres - Cask
Took 4.3% - Brew York

The Shakespeare
Plum Porter 4.9% -Titanic Brewery - Cask

29/10/2025

Forth Valley CAMRA

Just over a week to Alloa Real Ale and Cider festival. As always we are keen that everyone can have a great time and the event be inclusive for all. To this aim please let us know if you need any special assistance or help via a direct private message.

27/10/2025

Without our 30 or so volunteers from the Solway branch of CAMRA and our sub-branch in Dumfries & Stewartry, the event couldn’t take place.
Below is a photo of some of them at the end of our last session on Saturday night.

26/10/2025

If you love dark beers then Stout Wars is for you…..6th to 8th November 2025 at Kendal

26/10/2025

CIDER OF THE FESTIVAL 2025

Barker’s - Dry Cider

This wonderful dry cider is made from apples in John Barker’s traditional Victorian orchards in Worcestershire. The fruit is picked up and pressed on the farm and then left to mature in the old farmhouse cellar.

Thanks to our customers for voting.