The Tutored Beer Tasting sessions are separately-ticketed events within the Exeter Festival of Beer 2023.

Cost of tickets: £17 per session. Tutored Tasting tickets include Festival admission.

Tutored Tasting session ticket-holders who are card-carrying CAMRA members, and also Students, will be given an additional free half-pint token on entry upon presentation of a valid CAMRA Membership card or Student ID.

Note: Entry Tickets for the main festival alone, are only available on the door.
Beer Tokens for the festival are sold separately at the event.

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The Sessions:

Thursday 19th January 19:00-20:00 - Brewer and Consumer

Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.

There is more to beer than amber, pale, golden and brown, and there are many different ways to tell a good one. Brewer Dan Clayton from Cottage Beer Project, near Bampton, and consumer beer writer Tim Webb, from The World Atlas of Beer, will lead a tutored tasting of six Devon beers from bolder styles. Three of these will be from Dan’s own brewery and three from others in Devon, all highlighting the range of different classic styles in which traditional British ales are brewed, from the brewer’s and the consumer’s perspective.

Friday 20th January 13:00-14:00 - Cask and Bottle

Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.

Ever since it was founded, 50 years ago, CAMRA has recognised two very different types of “real ale” - cask-conditioned and bottle-conditioned, but as only five bottle-conditioned beers had survived the 20th century, and none of these were available in cask, the Campaign concentrated on cask. The recent UK beer revival now sees almost 1,000 bottle-conditioned beers being made in the UK, yet it is rare to get an opportunity to try the same beer in both formats, side by side. This tasting will do just that, comparing and contrasting the same beer from cask and bottle, with some surprising results. 

Friday 20th January 19:00-20:00 - Back to the future - some of Devon’s best bottled beers 

Update 10/01/23: This session has been cancelled.

CAMRA is traditionally associated with cask ales, but there is a whole lot more to Britain's brewing history than that. Back in the 19th century the UK’s best beers came from a much broader range of styles than that found today, and the best of these came from the bottle.
As UK beer continues its gradual revival, this tutored tasting will introduce some of the West Country beers that are starting to push back the boundaries of beer, without having to add flour, fruit syrup or battery acid!

Saturday 21st January 13:00-14:00 - Monks who make beer

Update 10/01/23: This session is confirmed.

The most important influencers in the early history of beer were found in monasteries and abbeys. To this day, some abbeys, particularly those from the Trappist Order, in Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere, continue to make astonishingly good beers that have inspired brewers around the world. Tim Webb, for 30 years the author of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide Belgium, will introduce some of the monastic beers of Belgium and elsewhere, and talk about how this most unlikely of religious pursuits has survived.