Hucknall Beer Festival

02/05/2026

Hoppy 14th Birthday Lincoln Green Brewing Company
Thanks for 14 years of great beers and support to the beer festival and our home John Godber Centre
Enjoy your weekend and your beer festival at the The Station Hotel a well deserved celebration 🍻

Happy 14th birthday to our dear friends at Lincoln Green Brewing Company
14 years of great ales, fine pubs and supporting their local community and charities.
Seems like only yesterday we were displaying their opening in May posters at the 2012 Hucknall Beer Festival
A big part of the festival and John Godber Centre history and we're so happy to see them celebrate 14 years of brewing today, and a weekend of Cheers at their beer festival at The Station Hotel this weekend.
Have a great birthday guys, here's 14 of our favourite memories 🍻

25/04/2026

Castle Beer Festival brings many of Nottingham’s independent breweries together for one brilliant weekend at the amazing Nottingham Castle some of the festival team and volunteers were there last night and some are there today, say hi if you see them

The changes in layout are brilliant and they are opening during the day for an extra session plus there's still tickets available (there's a full day ticket or Saturday night only ticket) so if you're looking for something to do today why not head along with ales from
Bang The Elephant Brewing Co. Black Iris Brewery Blue Monkey Brewery Castle Rock Brewery The Grumpy Fish Brew Co Hollow Stone Brewing Co. Lenton Lane Brewery Lincoln Green Brewing Company Company Light Brewery Magpie Brewery Raptor Brewing Co and 's Brewery
There's also a cider bar curated by Sneinton Cider Company and live music to enjoy.

We'd definitely recommend a visit it was a wonderful atmosphere yesterday and some fabulous ales and ciders on offer

🎟️ Tickets can be purchased online here - https://www.gigantic.com/nottingham-independents-castle-beer-festival-tickets?fbclid=IwVERDUAQeOGFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6-iWDFewSrUTPMi6w1c1NWfOUfGcQtftVrvY-51OtmHXtq55C1wKBTLVRk3w_aem_pnKSgsCAXTfeDpnjvNWlcQ

PS its only 41 weeks until our return after this weekend!!

19/04/2026

Happy 15 years "at the helm" anniversary to the John Godber Centre manager Kim
Hucknall Beer Festival is a huge part of the Centres history and 15 years of memories..

13/03/2026

On behalf of everyone involved in Hucknall Beer Festival and Nottingham CAMRA Andrew Ludlow presented those whose beer entries were highly commended in the "Spyke Golding Challenge Shield" competition with their 2026 "Champion Beer of Nottinghamshire" certificates this week

Congratulations to
Blue Monkey Brewery with BEER A "Bebok" a 5.5% American brown ale
Lincoln Green Brewing Company with BEER B "Greenwood" a 5.5% extra special bitter
and new entrant to the competition
The Grumpy Fish Brew Co with BEER C a 4.7% hazy pale

Thank you again to everyone who organised,the competition at the event, those who entered and those who took part in the judging and voting. The competition will return in 2027 🍻

13/03/2026

On behalf of everyone involved in Hucknall Beer Festival and Nottingham CAMRA Andrew Ludlow visited the Magpie Brewery to present the team with the "Spyke Golding Challenge Shield" and their 2026 "Champion Beer of Nottinghamshire" competition winner's certificate.
Their winning beer "Without Prejudice" an 11% ABV imperial pastry stout was a favourite with the public in the "blind" tasting and voting.
Well done to everyone involved at Magpie Brewery and thank you to everyone who took part in the voting we'll see you and your new voting slips in 2027....

11/03/2026

Castle Beer Festival brings many of Nottingham’s independent breweries together for one brilliant weekend at the amazing Nottingham Castle this April including -
The Elephant, Iris Brewery, Blue Monkey Brewery Castle Rock Brewery The Grumpy Fish Brew Co Hollow Stone Brewing Co. Lenton Lane Brewery Lincoln Green Brewing Company Light Brewery Magpie Brewery Raptor Brewing Co and 's Brewery
There's also a cider bar curated by Sneinton Cider Company and live music to enjoy.

🎟️ Tickets start from just £11 and can be purchased online here - https://www.gigantic.com/nottingham-independents-castle-beer-festival-tickets?fbclid=IwVERDUAQeOGFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6-iWDFewSrUTPMi6w1c1NWfOUfGcQtftVrvY-51OtmHXtq55C1wKBTLVRk3w_aem_pnKSgsCAXTfeDpnjvNWlcQ

Congratulations to our two raffle winners Green 137 and Orange 33 who were lucky enough to win tickets to the event, kindly donated by the organisers, we hope you have an amazing time.

PS it will only be 41 weeks until our return after this!

01/03/2026

SPECIAL OFFER from one of our 2026 sponsors Arunothai
Those who still have their printed festival programmes can also enjoy an extra special offer with extended times but this is still a great offer for early birds...

Fresh and authentic flavours from Thailand.

26/02/2026

Hard to believe this time two weeks ago we were just opening up the festival!

Thank you to all those who attended and particularly for the many positive comments and expressions of thanks we've received.

The planning group will be meeting up to review the festival and begin planning for the 2027 Hucknall Beer Festival any feedback received is reviewed at this meeting.

Anything you really loved or anything you feel we could improve on please drop us a note so we can include in our wash up meeting.
Hope you enjoy a very beery weekend!

22/02/2026

RAFFLE TICKETS
We're still waiting for 🤎BROWN 304 🤎 and 💗PINK 245💗 to be claimed from the Beer Festival Raffle, dig deep in those wallets, purses, coat pockets and handbags and see if you're a luck winner
Drop us a message or call John Godber Centre on 0115 963 9633
Congratulations to all those who won, and thank you everyone who entered

19/02/2026

Grab a coffee (or some real ale/cider!) and read the LONG list of the much deserved thank you's for organising this year's Hucknall Beer Festival in the below post...
SHARE the love and TAG in those mentioned or COMMENT your appreciation for a great weekend of real ale and cider from these kind and generous people....
THANK YOU to all those involved that gave time, support and sponsorship, particularly Nottingham CAMRA and Torkard Cider and all those who joined us, it was an amazing event and we truly loved every minute of it and your generosity has greatly helped to raise funds for this historic community venue and create a memorable annual event.
We'll be back 2027!