Yorkshire Beers takes on the best of British Beers!

The 2012 Boston Spa Beer Festival has announced that alongside Yorkshire’s best, it will also be featuring all the winning beers from The 2011 CAMRA Great British Beer Festival and is almost certainly the only place on the planet where you will be able to try all these great beers under one roof.

The festival organisers are also delighted that Yorkshire and former England cricketer Ryan Sidebottom is lending his support to the festival. A unique special beer is to be brewed in his honour and will naturally be called “Left Arm Over”.

Festival organiser Paul Martin said: “We wanted to do something different this year, and felt it would create a lot of interest if we were to feature these fantastic champion beers alongside the best that Yorkshire has to offer. As well as being a strong community event, people travel from as far away as Brighton for the festival and we wanted to go the extra mile this year and give our visitors something a bit special.”

The category winning beers come from as far away as Renfrewshire, Essex, Hampshire, Cumbria and Shropshire and will be alongside over thirty of Yorkshire’s best cask ales. Yorkshire now has more breweries than anywhere else in the UK and beers from all over the county will be available along with award winning ciders and perrys.

Leeds and York based estate agent DHP Croft are this year’s main sponsor and have given the event tremendous support. Partner Jonathan Phillips added: “We’re extremely proud to be associated with a successful community event which is in our heartland and also supports local charities”.

This is the fourth Boston Spa Beer Festival and will take place on Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th of February at the local village hall. So far, over £30,000 has been raised for the local school and village hall.

Boston Spa Beer Festival 2012

Group photo: Left to right: Ryan Sidebottom, Jonathan Phillips (DHP Croft), Paul Martin, Claire Thompson (Friends of St Mary’s), Paul Hunt and Andrew Thompson.