With only 50 beers our cellar team has had a challenge to select an interesting range, it’s much easier with a larger festival. However we hope you’ll find it a great selection. Whilst this is a festival in winter, it is not a festival of winter beers. None-the-less we have an excellent choice of stout, porter and mild. But we also have pale, golden, amber and ruby beers. Not forgotten are IPA, EPA, APA, NEIPA, witbier and rye beer. We even have a dunkel! There are numerous new beers and some hard to get rarities. The link to the list is below, we look forward to seeing you!
Category: Beer Festival
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Pubs boosted by success of Not the Newark Beer Festival
With dozens of unique beers to try and plenty of pubs to visit, an alternative festival has been praised for boosting trade for town centre venues.
Not the Newark Beer Festival took place over the bank holiday weekend, with over 50 unique beers on tap, spread across eight different pubs.
The alternative event was organised after the annual Newark Beer Festival, which is traditionally held in the grounds of Newark Castle, was unable to go ahead as planned due to work starting on the Castle Gatehouse Project.
Organised by Yupp Beer, with the backing of Newark CAMRA, the festival has been hailed as a huge success.
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Newark Winter Beer Festival
Newark Beer and Cider Festival returns in November 2025
Following the disappointment of not being able to hold our usual outdoor beer festival in the Castle Grounds we are delighted to announce that we will be having a ‘Winter Edition’ this November in the Town Hall. The two-day event will be in the magnificent ballroom in the town hall and it’s great to have found another iconic site in Newark to hold a beer festival. Some of you will remember that CAMRA ran a winter beer festival here before between 2009 and 2011 and so we have history.
This year’s dates are 21st and 22nd November 2025 and as this is an indoor venue, with a limited capacity, we will be selling tickets in advance and splitting each day into two sessions. The Afternoon Session will run from 10:30 – 16:00 and the Evening Session from 17:00 – 22:30. There will be around 50 beers and 15 ciders on offer. Food will be available and there will be acoustic music in the evenings and the traditional daily quiz in the afternoons. There will be a few walk-in tickets available but we advise buying a ticket beforehand to ensure that you get in. There will be no under 18s allowed and we can only allow assistance dogs.
We will soon be recruiting volunteers to help with the festival and please keep an eye on our website and social media for details of when tickets will be available to purchase and for volunteering opportunities.
We are very excited about this news and look forward to welcoming you to the Town Hall in November.
More information can be found here: Newark Beer Festival 2025
Cheers.
Sam Lucas
Newark Beer Festival Organiser