LS6 Beer Festival

We’ve updated the bands page with some more of the awesome acts we’ve got lined up for this years LS6 Beer Festival. Headlining on Friday night we’ve got the incredible Hannah Trigwell with some superb support acts including Nyko Morgan and Steph Stephenson. On the Saturday night, things will get a little lively with bands like Soul Circle Gang, Black Water and the fantastic Raw Peaches! in the headline slot; again, with a number of superb support acts such as Dan Clews through the afternoon. More to be announced within the next week, so watch this space.

Well over this glorious bank holiday weekend we have completed our list of beers and sent them over to our friendly beer festival supporter – Stewart from Ilkley Brewery – as soon as he confirms that they can all be sourced we’ll start announcing the beers!  Watch this space for more details!!

The first lot of acts for the 2011 LS6 Beer Fest have been announced with plenty more to follow shortly. Watch this space for more information.

Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th June 2011

It’s the news you’ve all been waiting for – that’s right, the LS6 Beer Fest is back!

This year we are coming back bigger and better with two days of beer, fun and festivities.  Watch this space for more news over the coming weeks, follow us on twitter or join our fan page on facebook!

Just a quick note to thank everyone who came down on Saturday so very very much – we had a brilliant day, and hope you did too! It was great to see so many happy faces drinking decent beer and enjoying the sunshine. At risk of sounding like a cheesy so-and-so – what made the day so special was that we had such a lovely, lovely crowd of people attending and helping out.

It was the first time any of the three of us organisers have had a hand in anything of this scale – we hope we did pretty well, but there’s certainly some lessons we’re going to take on board for next time. Most crucially, we absolutely hated having to turn people away. We had sold 180 tickets in advance out of the 250 that we had available for sale (because of a strict limit on numbers in our license) and had an influx at 12pm of people buying their places to come back later on. If you were one of the people who couldn’t get in, we are really very sorry – we’ll be thinking carefully about how we handle ticket sales in the future.

We’re still figuring out the exact numbers, but it looks like we’ve made over £1000 for Village-to-Village, which is going to go a long way towards supporting the charity’s projects – read more about what they’re up to here

We’ll be keeping this page updated with news of future plans – for there are definitely future plans in the offing – so keep checking back.

Thanks again!

Lib, Oli and Rach

Why not check out Village-to-Village, the charity we are organising the beer fest in aid of?  They are a fantastic organisation run by volunteers and are always looking for people to get involved here or in Tanzania.  Visit www.village-to-village.org.uk for more info!

We’ve just finalised our list of beers – and every single one is an award winner. We’ve got everything from barley wine to ginger beer to good old-fashioned bitter. Get over to the beer page and start working up a thirst!

There will also be lager, wine and soft drinks available.

Oh, and what beer fest is complete without a hog roast? We’ve got one of them too! There will also be some tasty fodder for veggies available.

Alongside the eating and the drinking, there will of course also be live music a-plenty throughout the day – check the bands page for the full line-up

See you in just over a week!

We’re delighted to announce the first ever LS6 Beer Festival will be taking place on Sat 24th April, at the rather lovely venue of Left Bank on Cardigan Road, Leeds.

The day is going to be in aid of Village to Village, a local charity supporting community initiatives in Tanzania and Uganda. To find out more about Village to Village, head over to their page.