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OUR AMBITION

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Beer enthusiasts ourselves, we will do our very best to seek out delicious and intriguing beers and ciders, good music and good local food for you to enjoy in the friendly, convivial atmosphere of Sproughton's historic Tithe Barn. Whatever your personal taste in beer, you can be assured of a warm welcome at our Festival. Full details are below. We look forward to seeing you here.   

It's our 14th year!
New this year, our festival opens at 
4 pm on Friday the 10th of May.
Come and celebrate 200 years of RNLI lifeboats with us.
Raise your glass to all the brave
lifeboat crews around the British Isles. 

Our festival opening hours:

Friday 10th May 4 pm to 10 pm;

Saturday 11th May midday to 10.30 pm;

Sunday 12th May midday to 10 pm. 

What's on offer?

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2023 Gallery

Thank you to local builders and civil engineers  Brooks and Wood
for sponsoring our volunteers'  T-shirts. Click on their logo above to visit their website.

  • 20+ different cask ales from  local breweries to try, a Suffolk lager and around half a dozen ciders, all at last year's prices of £4 a pint. For a live listing of our beers and ciders click here.

  • The Gin Bar will be here, too. You can find full details of our Suffolk gins by clicking here.

  • Red, white and rosé wines and prosecco also available

  • Limited edition commemorative festival glasses featuring original artwork by Sproughton artist Neil Lister sold at £3 in aid of RNLI Lifeboats and East Anglia's Childrens' Hospices. Click here for an image.

  • Live music throughout the weekend  - click here regularly for updates on our entertainment schedule

  • Sunday night quiz. Click here  for details

  • Happy hours Friday 4-6 pm and Sunday evening until close.

  • Outdoor seating in the courtyard

  • Hot and cold food available

  • 2-pint carry-out cartons of beers and ciders are available - take some memorable beer home!

  • We take card  payments

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Contact us. Click this link: sproughtonbeerfestival@gmail.com
or call: 07578552324

Beer list
Gin bar

Our festival charities for 2024:

Glass
Music
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Thank you to popular Iocal hairdressers Francesco and Fircroft for sponsoring the printing costs of our beer menu banners. 

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You bring the hair, we have the style!

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Click on the logos above to visit their websites.

New this year, our hot food at the Festival will be provided by Ipswich-based Prestige Bars & Catering. 

Proudly proclaiming "We LOVE doing Festivals!", Prestige hot food is prepared using fresh, not frozen, meat sourced from Suffolk farms and prepared by local butchers. Experienced in providing catering services at weddings, corporate events and private parties, we look forward to working with Prestige to make your Sproughton Beer Festival experience special.

Click their logo above to find out more about Prestige Bars & Catering.

Good to know...

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  • Entry to the Festival is free.

  • The Festival venue is the Tithe Barn, Lower Street Sproughton (map at foot of page).

  • Think carefully about driving to the Festival. Do not drink and drive. Have a designated driver in your party. There is no parking on-site, and only limited on-street parking nearby. Please leave residents' driveways clear at all times, and leave quietly if after dark. There is a new but limited bus service (service 8b) on Friday and Saturday only between Ipswich central and the Sproughton Wild Man. Search for route 8b by clicking here.

  • To buy beer or other alcohol at our festival you'll first need to buy a festival beer voucher with cash or card from our friendly voucher sellers. Full details below.

  • Hot food is available during the festival.

  • **NEW** We're using outside caterers this year for our hot food. You'll need to pay separately at the outdoor servery for your hot food by bank card or cash - your beer voucher will NOT be accepted for payment for hot food.

  • We'll have seating and tables in the barn itself and outside in the rear courtyard.

  • Our Festival is a family event. Children under 18 years of age are welcome to accompany you but they must not buy or consume alcohol, or approach the bars. There are plenty of alternative soft drinks and snacks for children to buy in our tuck shop. 

  • Well-behaved dogs are welcome, but please come prepared to clean up after your dog.

  • Limited edition commemorative festival glasses featuring original artwork by Sproughton artist Neil Lister will be available to purchase at £3 each. Click here for an image. All proceeds from the sale of these glasses will be shared between the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and East Anglia's Childrens' Hospices (EACH).

  • All our festival staff are volunteers. They will do their best to provide a friendly, professional service. Please be patient, especially at peak times, and treat them with the respect they deserve for giving up their time for free to serve you. Abusive or threatening behaviour towards any of our volunteers or other patrons will not be tolerated and offenders will be refused any further service.

  • Please respect our neighbours and refrain from overflowing onto their gardens or driveways. Please don't remove or ignore barriers put in place to respect our neighbours' privacy.

  • Any queries? We'd love to hear from you - call, text or Whatsapp us on 07578552324.

A huge thank you to our good friend Joy Day from Creative Joy for her work this year on our branding, logo and advertising materials. It's given us a new, fresh look! 

All you need to know about beer vouchers...

For your safety & security and to speed up service at the bars, no cash or card payments can be taken over the bars themselves. Patrons must first buy a beer voucher to use for payment at the bar for beer and other alcohol. Our voucher sellers will be easy to find as you enter the Tithe Barn. Vouchers can be bought by cash or card - however, we much prefer contactless payments. Part-used vouchers can be refunded, or you can choose to donate your "change" to our festival charities.

 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE FOR 2024

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THIS YEAR, YOUR BEER VOUCHERS CAN ONLY BE USED AT THE BARS TO PURCHASE BEER, CIDER, GIN, OTHER ALCOHOL AND BAR SNACKS.

 

TO PURCHASE HOT FOOD, YOU MUST PAY SEPARATELY BY BANK CARD OR CASH AT THE OUTDOOR SERVERY - YOUR BEER VOUCHER WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 

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Thank you to our partners Glassware Branding of Brandon, Suffolk, for their professional service and friendly help and advice producing our commemorative festival glasses. 

Please support our Festival sponsors. Their generosity enables us to offer free entry to our Festival. It also helps to keep our prices down and means we can give more to worthy causes from our proceeds. 

Sproughton Beer Festival is a not-for-profit community enterprise organised on behalf of, and supported by, Sproughton Parish Council. All proceeds after expenses will be used to secure next year's festival and thereafter distributed as grants to enhance and enrich our community.

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Same again?  Don't mind if I do...

Thanks for supporting us!

See you again on 9th, 10th and 11th May 2025

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Challenge 25

We will be operating a strict "Challenge 25" policy at our Festival. This means that if you are lucky enough to look under 25, you will be asked for proof of your age when buying or consuming alcohol. To find out more about how this may affect you, click here. 

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