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Explore Leicester's diverse beer festival culture across this welcoming multicultural city. From community brewery celebrations to contemporary craft gatherings, Leicester combines rich Roman and medieval heritage with modern innovation, warm hospitality and excellent connections throughout the Midlands.
Leicester pairs long-standing local brewing names with a newer wave of independents, and its festivals welcome both. The mood is friendly and unpretentious.
Community festivals run across the city and surrounding county through the year, mixing proper cask with modern pale and lager. They are the sort of events built to bring people together rather than to show off.
Explore the local brewers on our Leicester breweries guide, or browse festivals across the Midlands.
The Amber Rooms Beer Festival
Wed 30 September - Mon 12 October 2026
15 The Rushes, Loughborough
Featuring a large selection of real ales, ciders, and international guest beers alongside their everyday Three Guest Ales & Meals menu.
Pharmacie Arms Cask, Craft & Lager Festival
Wed 21 - Sun 25 October 2026
3 High Street, Market Harborough
Join us for the biggest ''OctoberFest'' we have held at The Pharmacie Arms, we will have German Beer & Lagers pouring along side a Fantastic Craft Beer Selection from WarPigs in Copenhagen plus an amazing selection of Cask Ales, along side out Ciders, Wines, Spirits and over 40 Gins something for everyone...Including Vegan & Gluten Free and Alcohol Free Beers! Wednesday is CAMRA VIP Night-Everyone welcome and invited Thursday TBC Friday we will have a WarPigs Brewpub Food offering... Watch this space for the menu...From Gamble & Hollis Butchers Saturday its OctoberFest Party Day with the famous 'Malcom on the Piano' playing all those songs you love to sing along too with his banter...''Don't mention the War'' plus Free Hot Dogs with John's famous German Sausage from Gamble & Hollis Butchers, donations appreciated to out Charity... Sunday afternoon we have the amazing Danny Willson doing his Acoustic set like no one else does...If you haven't seen Danny before don't miss him.! A week of great beers whatever your tipple is and a good time... During the week we will be collecting any kind donations for Leicester Women's Aid
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Discover the award-winning breweries that make Leicester a craft beer and real ale destination. Many of these breweries participate in regional festivals or host their own taproom events.
Festival regular
Loughborough
Charnwood Brewery is a family-run microbrewery founded in 2014 by Andrew and Andrea Reed and their children in Loughborough, Leicestershire. The brewery produces award-winning, cask-conditioned and craft keg beers, including two core ales—Salvation (a light golden 3.8% beer) and Vixen (a 4% copper-coloured best bitter)—alongside a rotating lineup of more than two dozen monthly seasonal specials. Operating from a site featuring an on-site shop and taproom, Charnwood supplies its beers to local pubs, restaurants, and customers via bottled, mini-keg, bag-in-box, and cask formats. The brewery also operates several micropubs, such as The Sorrel Fox and the Hall Croft Tap, and maintains a strong local identity with a playful fox mascot, Clarence, featured across its branding.
Pouring soon
Coalville
Emperor’s Brewery is a UK craft brewery in Coalville, Leicestershire that specialises in big, bold imperial stouts and porters, most clocking in well over 10% ABV and often barrel-aged for rich complexity. It began as a professional venture in 2017 by brewer Damian, after decades of home-brewing, and has built a reputation for decadent dark beers with flavours like chocolate, coconut, coffee and maple, released in small batches and often sold directly through their online shop. While some of their brewing happens on site, they also collaborate with other breweries and produce beers through partners like Dugges Bryggeri in Sweden, with a loyal following among fans of high-strength, flavour-forward stouts.
Leicester
Coalville
In 2023, Bill Hall founded Hall's Brewery. We only make traditional cask beers, and sometimes package the beer into glass bottles. We have no public tap room! Try our beers in your local pub!
Market Harborough
Langton brewery is a microbrewery based in the idyllic countryside of the Langtons in Leicestershire. Handcrafting consistently good quality beer since 1999.
Recently added
Leicester
Established in 2022 in Enderby, Leicestershire, Mill Hill Brew Co is an innovative nano-brewery specializing in flavorful, unfiltered, and vegan-friendly craft beers in cask and keg formats. They are closely tied to their family-run taproom and micropub, Mill Hill Cask & Coffee.
