The Bradford Beer Festival for 2007 is once again over for another year. Many months of planning and hard work by local branch volunteers paid off once again with the festival proving to be a great success for the branch and the campaign as a whole.

Bradford’s beers of the festival are selected by democratic vote, open to staff and public alike and the results are detailed below. Congratulations to the winners especially Naylors, Boggort Hole Clough and Thornbridge who, in consecutive years have now won awards at the Bradford Beer Festival.

The local newspaper, the Telegraph & Argus featured the festival on their website with a short video that can be found here although the mentioned figures of "90 Casks" and "7000 Pints" were a little short of the actual figures.

If you have any feedback on the festival we would be pleased to hear from you. Please e-mail your comments using this link. Thanks.

2007 CAMRA Bradford Beer Festival a Resounding Success

Bradford CAMRA’s annual beer festival held at Saltaire’s splendid Victoria Hall on Thursday (1st March) to Saturday (3rd March) was yet again hugely popular with the three thousand visitors who consumed more than 13,000 pints of British and International beers and ciders. Festival organiser, Mick Farrar, was extremely pleased with the results of the festival, which serves to endorse CAMRA’s aim of promoting real ale, real pubs and consumer rights.

“The 2007 Festival is the tenth such event we have held at the Victoria Hall and in that time we have got our message across to almost 30,000 people. The fact that the event is so popular with local people tells us that real ale is maintaining it’s attractiveness to drinkers young and old, female and male.”

At this year’s festival, drinkers had a choice of 112 different cask-conditioned mild and bitter ales, stouts and porters with a few more specialised ales including one that included fresh rhubarb and another with ginger. Ten varieties of traditional cider and perry also sold out together with a range of Yorkshire produced country fruit wines.

The Campaign was also successful in signing up 36 new members to the Campaign to join an existing 83,000 in membership across Britain already committed to preserving our beer heritage. The Festival is staffed entirely by volunteers who start planning about six months beforehand to continuously improve the event for the benefit of festival-goers. Mick praised the 110 CAMRA volunteers, mostly from Bradford and Keighley Branches of CAMRA but also from as far apart as Germany and Scotland, “We have a great response from members who undertake all the tasks needed to run the Festival. They bring great enthusiasm and energy to ensure that the Festival runs smoothly for the enjoyment of all.”

Peter Krugmann, a CAMRA member living near Cologne in Germany, stated, “I really enjoy coming over every year for the Festival to work alongside my friends in Bradford and to enjoy your wonderful British real ale.”

Each year we ask visitors to name their beers of the festival and the results for 2007 are: