1st Quote from #CBF2025 this morning:
‘The more we concentrate on merely reworking our existing institutions, the more we fail to see or understand the nature of the new challenges that surround us.’
— Hilary Cottam, Radical help
1st Quote from #CBF2025 this morning:
‘The more we concentrate on merely reworking our existing institutions, the more we fail to see or understand the nature of the new challenges that surround us.’
— Hilary Cottam, Radical help
Congratulations to Buntingford Brewery! You voted for their 'Tis but a scratch' as your beer of the festival. #cbf2025
Also our congratulations to Loch Lomond brewery for West Highland Way in 2nd place, and Hook Norton brewery for Hooky Mild in 3rd.
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Top of the list if you're looking for somewhere to drink post-festival are CAMRA Cambridge Branch's Cambridge Pub of the Year, the Kingston Arms, and Cambridge Cider Pub of the Year, the Devonshire Arms, both just off Mill Road in the popular Romsey area of the city #cbf2025
Last chance to join us in 2025 as this Saturday is the last day of the festival. There's a great vibe as we head into the evening, and you'll find plenty to eat, drink and do once you get here. Our chosen charity this year, The Red Hen Project, would also love your support #cbf2025
Golden and pale ale drinkers: beers we still have plenty left of include Beerset (festival special, Milton Brewery), Dreigiau’r Diafol (TWT LOL), Staring at Bumble Bees, and Pucker Up Mango and Sea Buckthorn (Three Blind Mice Brewery) and Pale GF (gluten free by Alnwick Brewery) #cbf2025
Ready for some 2025 Cambridge Beer Festival stats? Watch our short video for informative facts of the week so far! With thanks to Benjamin Potts Films #cbf2025
Acclaimed community band Waterbeach Brass are setting up near our family beer garden, ready for their first set. The 25-strong band will be playing a selection of pop songs, film standards, TV theme tunes and more. Performance starts at 1pm (and 2nd set at 2.15pm). #cbf2025
Breaking beer news if you are visiting Cambridge Beer Festival today! We are ready to serve you a whopping 30,000 pints - that's what we have left after a fantastic week so far. In total, there are still around 350 unique beers left on offer plus low and no-alcohol beers #cbf2025
Vegetaria have been serving customers at Cambridge Beer Festival since 2007, and festival goers can't get enough of their tasty vegetarian and vegan food options! The focus is on freshly prepared Mediterranean food and their signature dish is handmade falafel #cbf2025
Visitors to the festival this Saturday will be able to enjoy the sounds of the acclaimed, and Cambridge-based, Waterbeach Brass. Catch their performances between 1pm and 3pm in our family beer garden where they will be playing a selection of great sing-along tunes! #cbf2025
Festival visitors with children can take a break from the food and beer marquees in the family area where there are toys and colouring activities available. It’s run by Sarah, featured in our video by Benjamin Potts Films, a festival volunteer for over 15 years #cbf2025
Not sure what to do this evening? In that case, we recommend you make the most of the beautiful sunshine by coming along to the 2025 Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green! Buy your ticket at the entrance, children go free, special drink tokens for designated drivers. Doors open at 5pm #cbf2025
Do you have a way with words?! On the back of the yellow Gearset beer mats at this year's festival there's a puzzle competition. Scan the QR code for the clues and complete the crossword to win a £50 voucher. @gearset.com are one of our fantastic sponsors at #cbf2025
Highly recommend these two bitters for this afternoon’s session #cbf2025 - Batham’s not often seen outside the Black Country, Harvey’s not widespread outside of the South East, so get ‘em while you can
Get into the theme of this year's festival, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by trying out some of the special beers inspired by the film! Look out for Holy GrAle, Tis Only a Scratch, Trojan Rabbit, Knights Who Say NIX, Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and more! #cbf2025
Cambridge Beer Festival needs you! Everything is done by volunteers, from set up before hand and serving customers, to working behind the scenes and taking down the festival afterwards. It's fun, friendly and everyone is welcome. Find out more: tinyurl.com/cbf-volunteer #cbf2025
Introducing Mythic Beasts, one of our festival sponsors this year and the lovely people hosting our servers! Mythic Beasts is a privately owned hosting ISP focusing on providing no-nonsense services to technically capable customers, backed by excellent tech support #cbf2025
OMG I tried the vegetarian scotch egg at the beer festival and I think I like it even more than the meat one! #cbf2025
This year, our official charity partner for the festival is
Cambridge-based The Red Hen Project, which works with families dealing with challenging issues so their children can thrive. Find out more, including how you can support this amazing charity at the festival: tinyurl.com/2w4ykxny #cbf2025
Shout-out and thanks to @undo-io.bsky.social for sponsoring our volunteer T-shirts this year. undo empower developers to understand complex code and fix bugs faster with time travel debugging. You can buy the 2025 festival T-shirt, in a range of colours, from the stall in the food marquee #cbf2025
Joining the array of fantastic food trucks, here at the Cambridge Beer Festival, for the first time is Guerilla Kitchen, established in 2014. Offering Asian steamed bao, sides and desserts, the menu favours local and in season with flavours and textures a top priority #cbf2025
Bringing you news on the winning entries to this year's Cambridgeshire cider, Norfolk cider and East Anglia perry competitions! Judged yesterday at the festival by 12 panels of experts, find out who the winners were and the breweries behind them #cbf2025
At Cambridge Beer Festival each year, we choose a small number of breweries to highlight with their own showcase bar at the north end of the main tent. Meet four of the featured breweries you can visit this year: Brass Castle, Ossett, Pastore and Wylde Sky #cbf2025
Not long until we open the gates for day 4 of this year's Cambridge Beer Festival! If you've not been before, or are coming for the first time, watch this short video for a flavour of what to expect (made by the great Benjamin Potts Films). Opening 12-3pm and 5-10.30pm #cbf2025
Head over to the International Bar at Cambridge Beer Festival where you can find around a great range of beers from Europe and North America. This year, our International Bar Manager particularly recommends you give some of the Czech beers a try! #cbf2025
Here's to The Curry & Kebab King, a family run business that has been coming to Cambridge Beer Festival for over 20 years! Hailing from Peterborough, and famed for its meat, chicken and vegetarian dishes, The Curry & Kebab King is a firm favourite with festival visitors #cbf2025
Important news for beer drinkers! Among the 200+ beers on offer at Cambridge Beer Festival, 6 have been crowned finalists of CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain 2025 award. Find out about the winning IPA, mild, bitter, blond, pale and golden beers: tinyurl.com/3c5nvxbd #cbf2025
@raspberrypi.com are sponsoring the 'designated driver' tokens at this year's Cambridge Beer Festival. If the designated driver is you, tell our front entrance volunteers when you buy your ticket. Tokens are available for the evening sessions, redeemable at Caffe Mobile #cbf2025
