Leeds Beer Festivals 2026

Wakefield Beer Festival returns in 2026, celebrating regional brewers with 100+ drinks, street food & live entertainment. Wakefield Beer Festival returns! After a seven-year break, Wakefield Beer Festival returns in 2026 with a fresh vision. Held over four sessions across the weekend, the festival will showcase more than 100 carefully selected beers, ciders and craft drinks in the heart of Wakefield. With tasty street food and live entertainment, this is your chance to support the local brewing community and sample some of the best brews our region has to offer.

Otley Beer Festival (OBF) have announced that their 25 th Anniversary festival will move to the Otley Common in November this year. The OBF has held a successful beer festival with our friends at Otley Rugby Club since 2010 (apart from the Covid years) but this year sees a significant move. As usual, the main purpose of this annual beer festival will be to raise money for local charities and our popular Sponsor-a-Barrel scheme not only helps raise cash but allows sponsors to be part of this community spirited event. A full programme of live music will accompany a great range of 40+ locally brewed real ales, craft keg, cider, perry, gin, Prosecco, soft drinks and locally sourced food. Recognising a growing trend, there will be a selection of non alcoholic and soft drinks. Traditional local food will be served from the Common’s kitchen The popular live music entertainment will be mainly during the evening sessions.

Boring beer festivals? Not on our watch. We’ve taken the beer festival rulebook, set it on fire and launched it out of a confetti cannon. Craft Brew Festival isn’t like any other beer festival - it’s five hours of full-throttle, all-in, party-mode madness with bottomless craft beer, cider, wine, non-alcoholic beer, soft drinks and prosecco. No faff. No overpriced drink tokens. Just pure, unfiltered fun.

Once again we’ll be back at the Crown Hotel, offering beer, wine, gin, prosecco and cider all included as part of your ticket. And that’s not all. We always bring the party, and next year it’s going to be even bigger. Expect live bands, DJs, games and more. So, put in your diaries now, and keep an eye out for an exclusive presale ticket offer later this year. ore than just a beer festival Though we’re dedicated to putting on the best event in town, the Harrogate Beer Festival is also a huge fundraiser for the local community. Organised and run by volunteers from Harrogate Round Table, all profit from the event is shared out with our charity partners, and we’re delighted that in 2026 we raised a massive £25,000. This was split evenly between Samaritans Harrogate, Harrogate and District Community Action, Disability Action Yorkshire and Time Together. We presented them with the donations last month back at the Crown.