Top chefs and big name DJs will bring a diverse and varied food and music offering to the Bristol Craft Beer Festival next month. The two-day event at the Lloyds Amphitheatre in the Harbourside will feature hundreds of beers from around the world but also an impressive line-up of local chefs and DJs.
Organisers have teamed up with some of the city’s most popular food outlets including the owner/chef of acclaimed Southville restaurant Sonny Stores. Pegs Quinn spent four years at London’s renowned River Café, followed by stints at Bristol’s very own Bianchis and Pasta Ripiena before finally opening his own restaurant with wife Mary in 2020.
Pegs will be joined on the grills in the festival’s new Fire Pit area by Somerset-based Tom Bray and his Country Fire Kitchen team. They are known for creating show-stopping food cooked over fire on bespoke asado equipment.
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Bristol’s premier beer and cheese shop, Two Belly in Clifton, will also be there with their ‘The Cheese Guys’ food truck, serving gooey raclette and cheese toasties. They’ll be joined by Mexican street food operators, Little Taquero.
A celebration of brewing culture in Bristol and beyond, the Bristol Craft Beer Festival 2022 will feature a huge variety of the world’s finest beers. Festivalgoers can enjoy beers from over 40 world-class breweries, with hundreds of delicious beers on offer from local breweries like Wiper & True and Arbor Ales, alongside national and international breweries like North Brewing Co from Leeds, Hackney Brewery and New Zealand Beer Collective, with further European and US breweries still to be announced.
DJ Spoony and Beardyman will join Bristol’s Saffron Records to provide the musical entertainment over the two-day festival. Radio presenter DJ Spoony is a member of the UK garage production trio, the Dreem Teem and is widely considered one of the pioneers of the UK garage scene.
Beardyman is a multi-vocalist, musician and comedian from London, known for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping. Both artists will be DJing across the two-day festival.
Bristol Craft Beer Festival founder Greg Wells says: “What makes Bristol Craft Beer Festival is that it's greater than the sum of its parts. Amazing brews, incredible food, music and atmosphere all combine to make a truly special event.
“We’re really excited by this food line-up as we’ve got some Bristol favourites in there in the form of Two Belly and Pegs Quinn from Sonny Stores, as well as an amazing offering from Country Fire Kitchen, which we know festival-goers are going to love. Music-wise we are back with a bang this year with legends DJ Spoony and Beardyman, plus Bristol’s own Saffron Records.
“Get ready for two days of the best breweries from around the world, a mouth-watering food offering, a mega music line-up and the waterside location of Lloyds Amphitheatre and it’s an event you don’t want to miss.”
Bristol Craft Beer Festival takes place on June 10/11 and tickets are available here. Each ticket includes entry to the festival, festival pours of any beer from any brewer, the full music line-up, access to the people that make the beer themselves and a free beer tasting glass.
