A provisional beer list is now available. All of the beers on the list have been ordered, but obviously there may be late changes. A full list will be available at the Festival and, if time allows, will also be available to download from this site.

We do not ration beer, so if you want to try something in particular, you would be well advised to come early.

BrewDog are a relatively new brewery, but it’s not taken them long to build up quite a reputation.
They’re best known for their bottled beers, of course.  Their beers are not often seen in cask.
But they will be seen at Leeds Beer, Cider and Perry Festival 2010!  Look for Punk IPA and Trashy Blonde to be at Pudsey in March!

This year we’ll be having a good bit of beer from Otley.
The first three come from the Otley Brewery.  Don’t panic if you missed this one, it’s in Pontypridd, South Wales, not in Otley, West Yorkshire.  This is the brewery that produces the legendary O8, the Champion Beer of Leeds a few years back.  Expect some O8 along with others from down there.
The other comes from Rodham’s Brewery, which really is in our Otley.  Old Albion is a proper dark Yorkshire beer.
In case you’re wondering, Otley Brewery is run by …

Leeds Beer Festival has rarely, if ever, seen a beer beginning with Q.
We are pleased to announce that we have managed to put an end to this by persuading Quantock Brewery from Somerset to supply us this year.  As far as we know this is the first time their beer has made it to Leeds, so be early if you want to try it!

Some breweries are new at the Festival each year.  Some, espeically are locals, are regulars.
But there are some from a bit further away that are regular features.  One such is Nottingham Brewery.  You don’t see their beers up here, which is a shame because they’re rather good.  They’re good chaps at the brewery, too.
So, this is your annual chance to get some Nottingham in Leeds.  Mild and the astonishingly good EPA will be on the bar.  Get those Festival dates in the diary now.

And the next brewer up was Stewart from Ilkley Brewery in, ah, Ilkley.  We featured their excellent Mary Jane in New Full Measure a couple of months ago, so we were already going to be in touch for some of that.  Stewart also tells us that they’ve now brewed a dark mild …
One of each, please!  We’ll call in the next week or so.

Amazing.  They’re just like buses.
You wait ages for breweries to get in touch, and then two get in touch inside ten minutes!  First, by a few minutes, was George from the new Nook Brewhouse over in Holmfirth.  We’re always keen to try new local breweries, so we’ll be talking to George in the next week or so.
And, hey, they’ve got a CAMRA logo on the web page!

Paul from Wold Top, over near Driffield has now contacted us to ask if we reckon any Wold Top beer would go down well at the Festival.  We see Wold Top over this way from time to time, but not regularly.  We’ll be in touch!

It’s not just breweries that get in touch pushing their wares!
Stu says he will be making his first visit to the festival this year, and emails us with his top suggestions: Thornbridge (including the excellent Jaipur), Thorne – (a new brewery in South Yorks (going down a storm)), and  Dark Tribe (a small pub brewery, nearr Scunthorpe).
We’ll see what we can do!

And now Paul at Saltaire Brewery (it’s in Shipley really) gets in on the act.
We remember that one of Saltaire’s beers was the first to sell out last year – think it was the Raspberry Blonde.  So we’ll be getting some more of that in this time!