Matlock & Dales

Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

Matlock & Dales 3rd Beer Festival 2015

A very busy 3rd Matlock and Dales Beer Festival took place over the 23rd and 24th October 2015. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

County Hall Beer Festival Thank You

Matlock and Dales CAMRA would like to express their sincere gratitude to all the businesses who generously supported the first Beer Festival to take place at County Hall, Matlock.

Their contributions made the event a big success with many positive comments about the venue, the friendly atmosphere, the great selection of music, free transport to and from the venue, the event programme venue, and of course the great selection of beers and ciders.

This was only made possible by those who bought into what we were trying to achieve, essentially they brought the event to life and in doing so ensured people came along in large numbers ensuring the event was a big success.

We look forward to a bigger and better Beer Festival in October 2016 and hope everyone that helped make this year’s event such a success does so again next year.

We like to raise a glass and say cheers to the following organisations without whom there wouldn’t have been a Matlock and Dales CAMRA Beer Festival:

Derbyshire County CouncilStagecoach YorkshireAF Switchgear
P&DM-VISSign and PrintSalisbury and Wood
Moca BarThe Thorn TreeMatlock Wolds Farm Brewery
Peak AlesBrampton AlesShiny BreweryRAW Brewery


Many thanks

Simon Ainley
Matlock & Dales CAMRA Beer Festival Organiser

Beer of the Festival

The presentation of the Beer of the Festival to Bumpmill brewer Mick for Thunder Road was made on 5th December at Stanley's Alehouse. Pictured are Beer Festival Organiser Simon Ainley and Branch Chair Graham Dawson, with Mick and Mich from Bumpmill Brewery. See more photos from the Beer Festival at Matlock & Dales 3rd Beer Festival 2015





Read The 2015 Beer Festival Program

The Beer Festival in Pictures.