Harrogate pub gearing up to host 12-day real ale festival in October

The pub in Royal Baths will host the festival from Wednesday 12 till Sunday 23 October.

A selection of 30 real ales, including three from South Africa, Norway and Australia who have brewed their beers in England for the festival, will be on offer.

A number of the ales will also be available in the pub for the first time, including some brewed especially for the festival.

Rebecca Teale, pub manager at The Winter Gardens, said: "The festival is a great celebration of real ale all made using only British-grown hop varieties.

"It will allow us to showcase a selection of superb ales over a 12-day period and support the British hop industry too.

"The hop varieties include Jester, Fuggles, First Gold, Opus, Goldings and Godiver.

"The ales will be available at great value for money prices."

A number of the ales will also be available in the pub for the first time, including some brewed especially for the festival.

The ales will cost £1.99 a pint.

The festival line-up includes Jester (Green Jack Brewery), Rebel Flame (Shepherd Neame Brewery), All the Leaves are Brown (Brewster's Brewery), Bonkers Conkers (Greene King Brewery), Hoptober (Coach House Brewery), Kaleidoscope (Lancaster Brewery) and Victory Ale (Batemans Brewery).

The overseas ales are Autumn Amber (Mad Giant Brewery, South Africa), Rav (Telemark Bryggeri, Norway) and Wungong (Nowhereman Brewery, Australia).

Tasting notes on all of the beers will be available in the pub as well as on the Wetherspoons app.