All the orders are placed so we’re pleased to confirm the cask and keg beer line up for #CBCF26.

Our two cask beer bars are split alphabetically – you’ll find breweries beginning A to M on the Blackjack Beers Bar in the Youth Centre building (white building in the car park), while breweries beginning N to Z (actually N to W) are on the JP & Brimelow Bar in the Church lower hall.

The full list is now published here: Cask Bars

The Keg Bar, brought to you in association with Steelfish Brewing Co, is also in the Church lower hall. Although our list has 39 beers on it, limitations on space mean that the bar only has 15 taps which will rotate through the beers as lines become available. Some beers have multiple kegs so may be on, sell out but then return later in the festival.

The list of keg beers is here: The Steelfish Brewing Co Keg Bar

We try to keep availability on this page up to date but at busy times, beers can change quicker than we can keep up with.

The full lists for the Chorlton Fireworks Cider and Perry Bar and the The Vicar’s Gin Bar are also available now.

On Friday, three panels of judges went through two rounds of blind tasting to select the Beer Of The Festival for 2025 from a shortlist of sixteen beers prepared by our volunteers.

Two semi-finals whittled down the sixteen to six finalists.

And the judges determined that the Beer Of The Festival 2025 is…..

Bank Top Brewery – Dark Mild

Runner up was Torrside – Beowulf

Third place was Brightside – Darkside