This year’s event coincides with Nottingham’s biggest ever wine, champagne and prosecco festival
Nottingham Beer and Wine Festival at Trent Bridge 2025 (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)
The biggest event on the beer lovers’ calendar isn’t far away and this year the Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival coincides with a new Wine, Champagne and Prosecco Festival.
Thousands of people attend the annual event but the new addition opens it up to a whole new crowd, who prefer the grape to the grain.
Once again the beer event takes place at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, in West Bridgford, from Wednesday, October 7 to Saturday, October 10. New for 2026 is free admission to all Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) members to all sessions.
Pre-booking is not necessary, they just have to show their membership card at the gate. They don’t even need to buy a glass as tankards will be on loan.
The customary beer festival trade session will kick off the event, on the Wednesday from 1pm to 7pm and includes a performance by Vicky McClure’s ‘Our Dementia Choir’ at 4pm with a limited number of tickets available for the public to see the performance.
The remaining festival sessions from October 8 to October 10 run from 12pm to 10.30pm with the usual unrivalled range of beers and ciders, food and music.
The Wine, Champagne and Prosecco Festival will run alongside, with the same opening hours, Thursday to Saturday. Admission will be through a different gate but once inside visitors will be able to attend both events.
Beer festival ticket holders will only be able to purchase beer and cider; if they also wish to sample wine, they will need to buy a wine glass and vice versa.
Over the years, festival organisers, Nottingham CAMRA, has been able to obtain some truly rare and difficult to find cask beers and this year is no exception
Barney’s Brewery in Edinburgh will be supplying more than 30 casks. As well as their own beers, there will be ales from Eskbank, Pilot, Tempest and Newbarns, many of which are micro-breweries with a tap room.
Nottingham CAMRA secretary, Andrew Ludlow, who ordered the Scottish beers through Barney’s, said: “Amongst some of the rarer beers are Eskbank’s Cerveza Dhu, a 4.2 ABV Mexican dark lager, Tempest’s The Quickening, a light hazy pale ale, and Otherworld’s River Horse, 4.8% new IPA.
“Beers and ciders are brought to the festival from far and near and with the amazing range of street food and entertainment it is the event not to miss.”
The Trent Bridge Wine, Champagne and Prosecco Festival features West Bridgford’s newest wine bar Melo Melo alongside other local merchants and established brands.
The festival site expands into Trent Bridge’s newly redeveloped Pavilion as well as the Hound Road Concourse, The Clubhouse and The Gold Bar, a newly-opened space in the ticket office building. Tickets, starting at £15, can be purchased here.
Tickets for the beer and cider festival, from £10, can be bought here and also on the day.
